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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. 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.