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  • Derivatives : adj  mighty
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Collins English-Chinese Dictionary

might [maɪt]
  1. 1. aux vb I might get home late (possibility) 我可能会晚回家
    you might be right
    你也许是对的
    it might have been an accident
    可能是个事故
    you might have been killed!
    你差点儿没命了!
  2. 2. aux vb you might try the bookshop (suggestions) 你可以试一下书店
  3. 3. aux vb might I make a suggestion? (permission) 我可以提个建议吗？
  4. 4. aux vb I might have known {or} guessed (in expressions) 我早就该知道｛或｝猜到
    you might as well go
    你不妨也去
  5. 5. noun [u] (power) 力量
    with all one's might
    竭尽全力地

Comprehensive English-Chinese Dictionary

might [maɪt] [maɪt]
  1. 1. verb [助动词，表示现在或将来的概念，意义及用法与may大体相同，但具有“不肯定”；“期望”；“可能”等意思]可能
    it might rain
    可能要下雨
    might I go?
    我可以走吗?
    you might try to help
    你应该设法帮一下
    I might go to the party tonight if I'm not too tired.
    如果不是很累，我可能今晚去派对。
    That exposed wire might be dangerous.
    裸露的电线可能会有危险。
  2. 2. verb may的过去式
    Nancy politely asked me if she might have another piece of cake, so I couldn't say no.
    南茜礼貌地问我她是否能再吃一块蛋糕，我没法说不。
    I thought you might be tired, which is why I decided to help you.
    我想你可能比较累，所以我决定帮你。
  3. 3. v.aux 也许，可能的，用于表示一种可行性的或可能性的
    I wonder if I might leave the office one hour early today.
    我想知道我今天能否提前一小时下班。
  4. 4. v.aux 可能，用于表示在特定环境中的一种可行性或可能性
    I'll fight with all my might to save her if necessary.
    如果有需要，我将竭尽全力帮助她。
    Struggling with all his might was barely enough for him to escape in time.
    如果他竭尽全力，也许可以勉强及时逃脱。
  5. 5. v.aux 可能，会用于表示过去时中的可能性或许可性
    She might be a good singer, but yesterday she butchered every single song.
    她可能是个好的歌手，但是昨天她唱杂了每一首歌。
  6. 6. v.aux 或许，用来表示一种与事实相反的情况或状态
  7. 7. v.aux 可以，指接受某种情况为事实
  8. 8. v.aux 允许，指可以，允许
  9. 9. v.aux 可以，指非常礼貌地提议或建议
    We have been dating for 7 months, so I thought you might like to live together.
    我们已经交往7个月了，我想你会愿意和我住在一起。
    You might like to join me during my business trip through Asia.
    你也许愿意和我一同到亚洲出差。
  10. 10. v.aux 可以，用于表示较为恭敬或礼貌
    Might I ask how old you are?
    请问您贵庚？
  11. 11. v.aux 可能，用于表达方式中，例如‘as you might expect’和‘as you might imagine’指对某种状况不觉得惊讶
  12. 12. v.aux 可以，用于表达方式中，例如‘I might add’和‘I might say’，强调所做的声明
  13. 13. v.aux 也许，用于表达方法中，例如‘I might have known’和‘I might have guessed’，表示对令人失望的事件或事实不觉得惊讶

Collins English-English Dictionary

might [maɪt]
  1. 1. vb (takes an implied infinitive or an infinitive without to) used as an auxiliary
  2. 2. vb making the past tense or subjunctive mood of may
    he might have come last night
  3. 3. vb [often foll by well] expressing theoretical possibility: he might well come. In this sense might looks to the future and functions as a weak form of may - See may
might [maɪt]
  1. 1. n power, force, or vigour, esp of a great or supreme kind
  2. 2. n physical strength
  3. 3. n See main
  4. 4. n [Etymology] Old English miht; compare Old High German maht, Dutch macht
See more results for might in the Chinese-English Dictionary

Examples

he might come and then again he might not → again
it might rain
可能要下雨 → might
might I go?
我可以走吗? → might
you might try to help
你应该设法帮一下 → might
Can, may, might, must, should, and would are modal auxiliary .
can，may，might，must，should和would是情态动词. → modal auxiliary
one might rather say
更恰当地说 → rather
They died that we might live.
他们倒下了，为的是我们能活着 → that
to complain of one's lot when one might change it
本来可以改变自己的命运，但却自怨命苦 → when
There is no telling what he might do.
很难说他会怎么做。
Here lies those who fought and died, so that we might live.
正是因为躺在这里的战死的人们，才有我们的今天。
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