perchance

英 [pə'tʃɑːns] 美 [pər'tʃæns]

• adv. 偶然；或许；可能

详尽释义

adv. 副词

1. 可能
2. 偶然
3. 或许
4. 恐怕
5. 意外地

英英释义

Adverb:

1. through chance,

   "To sleep, perchance to dream.."
   

2. by chance;

   "perhaps she will call tomorrow"
   "we may possibly run into them at the concert"
   "it may peradventure be thought that there never was such a time"
   

例句

用作副词 (adv.)

1. He discovered the painting perchance.
   他偶然发现了这幅画。
2. One day perchance I shall tell you.
   或许有一天我会告诉你。

经典引文

• To die, to sleep; To sleep, perchance to dream.

  出自：Hamlet , Shakespeare

• Did she, perchance, understand him.

  出自： G. Gissing

近反义词

【近义词】

• perhaps 也许
• possibly 可能地
• maybe 或许
• conceivably 可想到地
• presumably 大概
• lest 惟恐
• by chance 偶然
• peradventure 或许
• mayhap 希望