perhaps是什么意思（perhaps的用法）

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一、perhaps是什么意思

1、perhaps 也许，可能

2、来自拉丁语per,凭借，依靠，hap,机会，运气，词源同happy,happen.

二、perhaps的用法

1、perhaps

2、perhaps: [16] The phrase by hap or by haps ‘by chance’ originated in the 14th century (hap ‘chance’, a borrowing from Old Norse, now survives in the derived happen). In the 16th century it was transformed into perhaps on the model of perchance [14] and the now obsolete percase [14], both borrowings from Anglo- Norman containing per ‘by’.=> happen, happy

3、perhaps (adv.)

4、1520s, formed from Middle English per, par "by, through" (see per-) + plural of hap "chance" (see happen), on model of peradventure, perchance, etc. which now have been superseded by this word. Perhappons "possibly, by chance" is recorded from late 15c.

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