【may音标】 英[meɪ] 美[meɪ]
【单词释义】 may是什么意思：
n.五月(May)；〈诗〉青春
modal.(有可能但不肯定)也许，可能;(转折前所述情况属实)也许;(征求同意或表示允许)可以
[单词分级] 中考英语词汇
[单词现在分词] maying
[单词过去式] might
[单词过去分词] might
【may形近词/近似词】
july n.七月
march n.三月(March)；行进，前进；行军 v. 前进；行军；进行
february n.二月
october n.十月
november n.十一月
june n.六月
january n.一月
september n.九月
april n.四月
december n.十二月
august n.八月
【单词例句】
◇ "That is horrible!" said old Kribble-Krabble. "Can one not persuade them to live in peace and quietness, so that each one may mind his own business?"
"这真吓人！"老克里布勒·克拉布勒说。"我们不能劝它们生活得和平和安静一点么？劝它们不要管别人的闲事么？"
---- The Drop of Water
◇ She had neither rest nor peace until she secretly set forth and went out into the wide world, hoping to find her brothers and to set them free, whatever it might cost.
有一天，她从家里偷偷地跑了出去，来到外面广阔的世界，到处寻访自己的哥哥。她想：无论他们到了甚么地方，她不惜自己的生命，也要让他们恢复本来面目，获得做人的自由！
---- The Seven Ravens
◇ The little kids cried out, "First show us your paw so we may know that you are our dear little mother."
小山羊们叫道：“你先把脚给我们看看，好让我们知道你是不是我们的妈妈。”
---- The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids
◇ Making an efficient icebox was not as easy as we might now suppose. In the early nineteenth century, the knowledge of the physics of heat, which was essential to a science of refrigeration, was rudimentary.
制造一台有效率的冰箱不像我们想象的那么简单。 19世纪早期，关于对冷藏科学至关重要的热物理知识是很浅陋的。
---- The Origin of Refrigerators
◇ They hang on because of their children, afraid that it might affect their up-bringing.
由于担心他们的离婚会给孩子的成长带来不良影响，这对老夫妇把离婚的事搁浅到现在。
---- Life Together
◇ No matter what, parents will always be there and give everything they could to make you happy. You may think that the boy is cruel to the tree but that's how all of us are treating our parents.
尽管如此，父母却总是有求必应，为了我们的幸福，无私地奉献自己的一切。你也许觉得那个男孩很残忍，但我们何尝不是这样呢？
---- A Boy and His Tree
◇ The money for which I shall sell this milk will enable me to increase my stock of eggs to three hundred,These eggs,allowing for what may prove addle,and what may be destroyed by vermin,will produce at least two hundred and fifty chickens.
我卖了这罐牛奶后，用这笔钱买鸡蛋，这样我有的鸡蛋可以增加到300个。用这300个鸡蛋孵小鸡，这就算有坏的、生虫的，至少也能孵出250只小鸡。
---- The country Maid and Her Milk Can
◇ When did sport begin? If sport is, in essence, play, the claim might be made that sport is much older than humankind, for, as we all have observed, the beasts play.
体育运动开始于何时?如果体育运动的本质就是游戏的话，我们就可以宣称体育运动比人类古老，因为正如我们所观察到的，野兽也进行嬉戏。
---- The Origin of Sports
◇ If you are grateful to life, it will bring you shining sunlight. If you always complain about everything, you may own nothing in the end. When we are successful, we can surely have many reasons for being grateful, but we have only one excuse to show ungratefulness if we fail.
如果对生活感恩，你的生命将充满灿烂的阳光；如果一味怨恨，终将一无所获。我们成功时，有千万个理由感恩生活，而失败时，只要一个借口就会表现出忘恩负义。
---- Being Grateful
◇ My wife must arrange to lose time at work and not lose the job. It may mean a small cut in my wife's income from time to time, but I guess I can tolerate that. Needless to say, my wife will arrange and pay for the care of the children while my wife is working.
她也许会因此而耽误了工作，减少了薪金，可那没多大要紧，她得边工作边照看家庭。
---- I Want a Wife