【might音标】 英[maɪt] 美[maɪt]
【单词释义】 might是什么意思:
aux.表示可能;表示许可;表示询问情况
n.力气;力量;威力;权力
v.(may的过去时)可以;可能;应该
[单词分级] 中考英语词汇
【might形近词/近似词】
tight adj.紧的;牢固的
straight adj.直的;直率的 adv.直地;直接地 n.直线;直线部分
night n.[U,C]夜;晚上
sight n.视力;看见;视野;景象 vt.看见,发现
right n.正确;右边 adv.正好;恰好;完全地 adj.右方的;正确的 vt.纠正;矫正
fight n.打架;吵架 v. 战斗;斗争;打架;吵架
【单词例句】
◇ Behave yourself on the way, and do not leave the path, or you might fall down and break the glass, and then there will be nothing for your grandmother.
在路上要好好走,不要跑,也不要离开大路,否则你会摔跤的,那样奶奶就甚么也吃不上了。
---- Little Red Cap
◇ Her little hands were almost frozen with the cold. Ah! perhaps a burning match might be some good, if she could draw it from the bundle and strike it against the wall, just to warm her fingers.
她那双小手都快冻僵了。啊!如果她能从这捆火柴中取出一根,在墙上划着了就会好一些,也就可以暖手。
◇ The apple-blossoms, though they looked like roses, bloomed today, but might fall off tomorrow, with the first wind that blew; and he thought that a marriage with one of them might last too short a time.
苹果树花看起来倒很像玫瑰,但是她们今天开了,明天就谢了——只要风一吹就落下来了。他觉得跟她们结婚是不会长久的。
---- The Butterfly
◇ At the church door stood an old soldier with a crutch, and with a wonderfully long beard, which was more red than white, and he bowed to the ground, and asked the old lady whether he might dust her shoes. And Karen stretched out her little foot.
教堂门口有一个残废的老兵,拄着一根拐杖站着。他留着一把很奇怪的长胡子。这胡子与其说是白的,还不如说是红的——因为它本来就是红的。他把腰几乎弯到地上去了;他回老太太说,他可不可以擦擦她鞋子上的灰尘。珈伦也把她的小脚伸出来。
---- The Red Shoes
◇ "These must, indeed, be splendid clothes!" thought the Emperor. "Had I such a suit, I might at once find out what men in my realms are unfit for their office, and also be able to distinguish the wise from the foolish! This stuff must be woven for me immediately."
“那正是我最喜欢的衣服!”皇帝心里想。“我穿了这样的衣服,就可以看出我的王国里哪些人不称职;我就可以辨别出哪些人是聪明人,哪些人是傻子。是的,我要叫他们马上织出这样的布来!”
◇ While many of these traits are common, they're not guaranteed. Some colleges can be bigger than universities, some might offer master's degrees, and so on.
尽管两者间通常是这种关系,但也有例外。一些college可能比university还大,一些college可能还会提供硕士学位。
---- What's the difference between a college and a university?
◇ GJ 357 d, a super-Earth that is 6.1 times the Earth's mass, is the most intriguing because it orbits the star at a distance where the temperature might be just right to support liquid water on the surface.
另一颗“超级地球”GJ357d的质量是地球的6.1倍,最令研究人员感兴趣,因为它围绕恒星运行的距离使其表面的温度可能刚好适宜液态水的存在。
---- NASA finds potentially habitable super-Earth
◇ While you might be tempted to reach for a cold drink to help cool you down in such hot weather, surprisingly hot drinks such as teas and coffees may actually be more effective.
在这样的大热天,你也许很想喝杯冷饮来凉快一下,但令人惊讶的是,茶和咖啡等热饮可能对解暑更有效。
---- Drinking hot tea in summer really does cool you down
◇ A company is going to expect that mistakes will be made at one time or another and they want to understand what sort of trouble you might have caused in the past.
公司认为,员工总会有犯错误的时候,他们想知道你在过去曾造成过什么麻烦。
---- Five most common questions asked at a job interview
◇ Don't have a preference? Some research suggests that working out first thing in the morning might help speed weight loss by priming the body to burn more fat throughout the day.
对时间没啥特别的偏好?有一些研究指出,早上起床后锻炼能让身体在一天中燃烧更多的脂肪,加速减重。