haply
/hap-lee/US // ˈhæp li //UK // (ˈhæplɪ) //
恰好,有可能,但愿,但愿如此
Definitions
adv.副词 adverb
- 1
Archaic.
- : perhaps; by chance.
Examples
He had no hopes of winning her to wife—haply no desire, since he was not a man of very great ambitions.
Haply Marius would have taken them and departed, and at midnight they would have been free to go from Condillac.
Haply her truant tresses mock Some coronal of shapelier block, To wit, the bounding billy-cock.
But I shall have fled, how I know not; haply mandragora will lure my weary mind to rest.
It was beyond his faculties to divine that her not forsaking of Edward might haply come to mean something disastrous to him.
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