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单词 perhaps
释义 per·haps
I. \pə(r)ˈhaps, pəˈra-, ˈpra- also chiefly -R ˈpa- sometimes -R pəˈa-\ adverb
Etymology: per + haps, plural of hap (chance)
: possibly but not certainly : maybe
 < drove on … for perhaps fifty yards — William Faulkner >
 < perhaps this is true, but it is certainly debatable — R.H.Walker >
 < here perhaps I ought to say — James Gray >
II. noun
(-es)
1. : something open to doubt or conjecture : speculation, supposition
 < make ourselves uncomfortable to any extent with perhapses — John Ruskin >
2. usually capitalized : the postulate of a life after death
 < a belief in the great Perhaps — Thornton Wilder >
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