亚洲网紅露点

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perhaps

[ per-haps ]

adverb

  1. maybe; possibly:

    Perhaps the package will arrive today.



perhaps

/ p蓹藞h忙ps; pr忙ps /

adverb

    1. possibly; maybe
    2. ( as sentence modifier )

      perhaps you'll see him tomorrow

      he'll arrive tomorrow, perhaps

鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

sentence substitute

  1. it may happen, be so, etc; maybe
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of perhaps1

First recorded in 1520鈥30; earlier perhappes, perhapis 鈥渂y haps鈥; equivalent to per + hap 1 + -s 1
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of perhaps1

C16 perhappes, from per by + happes chance, hap 1
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There was definitely a market for such things, perhaps even a market dominated by them 鈥 films like 鈥淜ramer vs. Kramer,鈥 鈥淭he Big Chill鈥 and 鈥淎n Unmarried Woman鈥 pop to my aged mind.

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And that, perhaps, is the difference between what I felt I was going through more than a decade ago and what can earn selection at this moment.

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He seems to chase that magic, perhaps rooted in his days as a teenage magician working at Outback Steakhouse in his hometown of Toledo, Ohio.

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Nothing about all this ensures that some combination of factors in California or the rest of the world won鈥檛 rejumble these rankings, perhaps to the state鈥檚 disadvantage.

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Corona is the favorite with a 25-2 record and the best pitcher perhaps in the nation in Seth Hernandez, who never has been tagged with a loss in two years of high school baseball.

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