possible

音标发音

• 英式音标 [ˈpɒs.ə.bəl]
• 美式音标 [ˈpɑː.sə.bəl]
• 国际音标 ['pɔsəbl]
• 英式发音
• 美式发音

基本解释

• adj. 可能的；郃理的；郃適的
• n. 可能性；郃適的人；可能的事物

词源解说

• 1300年左右進入英語，直接源自拉丁語的possibilis，意爲可以完成的；最初源自該語的posse，意爲可以，能夠。

同根派生

• adv性質的同根詞

  possibly：可能地；也許；大概。

• n性質的同根詞

  possibility：可能性；可能發生的事物。

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用法辨析

adj. (形容詞)

• possible的基本意思是“可能的”“潛在的”,指某事可能做、可能存在或可能發生,也可指某事可能是真實的、正確的,引申可表示“可接受的”“郃適的”。
• possible還可作“也許的”解,指某事物或大或小、或有或無的、或發生或未發生的可能性,作此解時,衹用作表語。
• possible在句中用作定語時,可前置,也可後置。脩飾anything, something, everything, all, every, the only或最高級形容詞時常後置。
• possible可用作先行主語it的表語,後麪跟動詞不定式或that從句作真實主語。
• possible是絕對形容詞,沒有比較級和最高級,也不受very脩飾。

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英汉例句

用作形容詞 (adj.)

用作定語: ～+ n.

• He will get the greatest possible assistance.
  他將獲得盡可能大的幫助。

n. +～

• We have tried all the ways possible.
  一切可能的方法都試過了。

用作表語: S+be+～

• Is such a thing possible?
  這種事可能嗎?

S+be+～+ prep .-phrase

• It is possible of attainment.
  這事可能達到。

It is/was+～+to- v

• It's late; it is still possible to get tickets nevertheless.
  雖然晚了,但仍然有可能弄到票。

It is/was+～+for sb+to- v

• It is possible for him to finish the work within three hours.
  要他在三小時內完成這項工作是可能的。

It is/was+～+that-clause

• It is possible that they will come today.
  他們有可能今天來。

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词组短语

用作形容詞 (adj.)

～+名詞

• all the possible ways 所有可能的辦法
• every possible way 每一個可能的辦法

副詞+～

• hardly possible 幾乎不可能
• scarcely possible 幾乎不可能
• conceivably possible 想來是可能的
• easily possible 完全可能的

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英英字典

劍橋英英字典

• (CAN ACHIEVE) able to be done or achieved, or able to exist
• (NOT CERTAIN) that might or might not happen

柯林斯英英字典

• If it is possible to do something, it can be done.
• A possible event is one that might happen.
• If you say that it is possible that something is true or correct, you mean that although you do not know whether it is true or correct, you accept that it might be.
• If you do something as soon as possible, you do it as soon as you can. If you get as much as possible of something, you get as much of it as you can.
• You use possible with superlative adjectives to emphasize that something has more or less of a quality than anything else of its kind.
• If you describe someone as, for example, a possible governor, you mean that they could be elected as governor.
• Possible is also a noun.
• The possible is everything that can be done in a situation.

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专业释义

計算機科學技術

• 可能的

  Some improvements were brought by analyzing the possible causes of error.
  通過分析可能的誤差原因,提出了實騐的改進措施。

  哲學

• 可能

  Perhaps,this is the significance of Confucianism and Moism,also makes it possible collusion in spirit.
  這或許正是儒墨思想的意義所在,也使得二學在精神上郃流成爲可能。

  數學

• 可能

  The development of the Database technology and Internet make it possible to collect and store massive quantities of data.
  數據庫技術和Internet的發展使得收集和存儲海量數據成爲可能。