may và might trong câu thật
25.861 câu có mẫu này. Điều có thể xảy ra, hoặc xin phép trang trọng. Công thức: may hoặc might + động từ.
Nhãn do quy tắc chữ gán tự động và ưu tiên độ chính xác hơn độ phủ, nên nhiều câu đúng mẫu vẫn chưa được gán nhãn.
Danh sách câu dẫn chứng (25.861 câu)
“It might be all a lie,” he acknowledged; “but so many fine ladies were going to the devil nowadays that way, that there was no answering for anybody.”
Từ trong câu: lie, nowadays, acknowledge, many, fine, lady, go, devil
Jane Austen, Mansfield Park - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
She would not voluntarily give unnecessary pain to any one, and though I may deceive myself, I cannot but think that for me, for my feelings, she would—.
Từ trong câu: unnecessary, voluntarily, give, pain, though, deceive, myself, can
Jane Austen, Mansfield Park - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
I am a very matter-of-fact, plain-spoken being, and may blunder on the borders of a repartee for half an hour together without striking it out.”
Từ trong câu: border, striking, matter, fact, plain, speak, half, hour
Jane Austen, Mansfield Park - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
A time came when, avoid collision with his former friend as he might, Farfrae was compelled, in sheer self-defence, to close with Henchard in mortal commercial combat.
Từ trong câu: mortal, sheer, commercial, time, come, avoid, former, friend
Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
She could not believe that they had been uttered by her stepfather; unless, indeed, they might have been spoken to one of the yellow-gaitered farmers near them.
Từ trong câu: unless, believe, stepfather, indeed, speak, yellow, farmer, near
Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The sense of the supernatural was strong in this unhappy man, and he turned away as one might have done in the actual presence of an appalling miracle.
Từ trong câu: miracle, supernatural, appalling, sense, strong, unhappy, man, turn
Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
If she had listened, she might have been amused by the reference to old Lady Barborough, her great-aunt, but, oblivious of her surroundings, she went on reading.
Từ trong câu: reference, surroundings, listen, amuse, old, lady, great, aunt
Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
“When I see how the world has changed in my lifetime,” she went on, “I can set no limit to what may happen in the next fifty years.
Từ trong câu: lifetime, see, world, change, go, set, limit, happen
Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Little Benjamin said that the first thing to be done was to get back Peter's clothes, in order that they might be able to use the pocket-handkerchief.
Từ trong câu: first, thing, use, order, might, able, done, little
Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Benjamin Bunny - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
"Two things coming together may produce a happy result, as for instance, a fresh zeal for learning and a new method of teaching, and neither does any harm.
Từ trong câu: produce, teaching, method, zeal, instance, learning, neither, thing
Johanna Spyri, Heidi - Bản dịch tiếng Anh, PD-US
The next object was the large box full of cakes; these were also for the grandmother, that she might have something to eat with her coffee besides bread.
Từ trong câu: cake, besides, coffee, next, object, large, box, full
Johanna Spyri, Heidi - Bản dịch tiếng Anh, PD-US
"Yes, that is it," replied the old woman with a nod of assent, "and we may be sure everything will come to pass according to God's good purpose.
Từ trong câu: purpose, yes, reply, old, woman, nod, sure, everything
Johanna Spyri, Heidi - Bản dịch tiếng Anh, PD-US
Clara had to rest for a certain time during the afternoon, and during this interval, as Fraulein Rottenmeier informed Heidi, the latter might amuse herself as she liked.
Từ trong câu: interval, rest, certain, time, afternoon, inform, latter, amuse
Johanna Spyri, Heidi - Bản dịch tiếng Anh, PD-US
So fortunate,” sniffed the man, with uplifted eyebrows; “looking at it from that standpoint, I suppose I might be glad I wasn't a centipede and didn't break fifty!”
Từ trong câu: fifty, uplift, sniff, fortunate, uplifted, man, look, suppose
Eleanor H. Porter, Pollyanna - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
"I don't know how I dare," Miss Amelia answered, with a kind of reckless courage; "but now I've begun I may as well finish, whatever happens to me.
Từ trong câu: courage, whatever, know, dare, miss, answer, kind, now
Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Conversely, the would-be wit lacks genius, expression, and judgment, and therefore turns critic, that he may denounce in others what is not to be found in himself.
Từ trong câu: conversely, wit, lack, genius, expression, judgment, therefore, turn
John, 1685-1732 [Contributor] Gay, The present state of wit (1711), and excerpts from The English Theophrastus; or, The manners of the age (1702) - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
He would accept any employment which might be offered him on the strength of his late employer’s recommendation; but he would accept it as a provisional thing only.
Từ trong câu: recommendation, employment, accept, offer, strength, late, thing
Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
He felt he might have been pretty sure of his own victory if it had come to a conflict between Phillotson and himself for the possession of her.
Từ trong câu: victory, conflict, feel, pretty, sure, come, himself, possession
Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
And it is evidently a prick of conscience in her that has led her to urge me to get a divorce, that she may remarry this man legally.
Từ trong câu: prick, urge, evidently, conscience, lead, get, divorce, man
Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
"We non-combatants were notoriously reluctant to give up fighting," said Mr. Sewell, the minister; "but I incline to think Colonel Lapham and Mr. Bellingham may be right.
Từ trong câu: notoriously, incline, reluctant, fighting, non, give, up, fight
William Dean Howells, The Rise of Silas Lapham - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
When she considered how wrongly he might take it all, it seemed as if it were already known to him, and she was impatient to prevent his error.
Từ trong câu: error, wrongly, consider, take, seem, already, know, impatient
William Dean Howells, The Rise of Silas Lapham - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Duty may be defined as the necessity to do something for one's own or for the general good which is not naturally pleasurable or agreeable or instinctively desired.
Từ trong câu: pleasurable, duty, define, necessity, something, general, good, naturally
Khuyết danh, A Handbook of the Boer War With General Map of South Africa and 18 Sketch Maps and Plans - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
They might advance rapidly if they would, however; they must advance somehow or other whether they would or no. She hardly wished to have more leisure for them.
Từ trong câu: somehow, rapidly, advance, however, whether, hardly, wish, leisure
Jane Austen, Emma - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
She was pleased with the eagerness to arrive which had made him alter his plan, and travel earlier, later, and quicker, that he might gain half a day.
Từ trong câu: later, gain, please, eagerness, arrive, make, alter, plan
Jane Austen, Emma - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Things did not seem—that is, there seemed a little cloud upon the spirits of some.—So it appeared to me at least, but I might be mistaken.
Từ trong câu: cloud, thing, seem, little, spirit, appear, least
Jane Austen, Emma - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Then for long he remained brooding; his hat of ill omen on the sward, so that any gentle breeze which had arisen might play refreshingly through his hair.
Từ trong câu: refreshingly, gentle, arise, breeze, long, remain, hat, ill
J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
There was at first such a tiny sound that a leaf might have fallen on it and smothered it, but as it came nearer it was more distinct.
Từ trong câu: tiny, distinct, first, sound, leaf, fall, come, near
J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
A figurative use of a word may easily pass into a new sense: a new meaning caught up by association may become more important than all the rest.
Từ trong câu: figurative, use, word, easily, pass, new, sense, mean
428? BCE-348? BCE Plato, Cratylus - Bản dịch tiếng Anh, PD-US
The symptoms of the incipient grabber were all there and only too familiar, and she knew that if Briggs stayed her rest-cure might be regarded as over.
Từ trong câu: symptom, incipient, familiar, know, stay, rest, cure, regard
Elizabeth Von Arnim, The Enchanted April - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
She was there close beside him; as one might say, in the same room; for he, too, had made the discovery as to the similarity of the wallpaper.
Từ trong câu: similarity, close, beside, room, make, discovery
Frank Norris, McTeague: A Story of San Francisco - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US