might-have-been

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• 英式音标 [ˈmaɪt.əvˌbiːn]
• 美式音标 [ˈmaɪt.əvˌbiːn]
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基本解释

• n.本可实现或发生的事

同根派生

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英汉例句

• The tea is hot; he may have been here before.
  茶还热着，不久前他很可能在这里。
• The letters may have been tampered with.
  这封信有可能被窜改过。
• Had he not saved me, I might have been drowned.
  我可能溺死了，若非他救了我。
• He consoled himself with the thought that it might have been worse.
  他聊以自慰的是幸亏事情没有更糟。
• After all it may have be worse; that's a bit of dutch comfort.
  结果可能更糟也未可知，这总算有可聊以自慰。

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剑桥英英字典

• something positive that could have been achieved, but was not

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