perchance

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"Perchance, " said Mr. Dimmesdale, "he earnestly desired it, but could not."
“也可能，”丁梅斯代爾先生說，“他誠心誠意地切望如此，但他辦不到。”
Take heed how thou deniest to him-who, perchance, hath not the courage to grasp it for himself- the bitter, but wholesome, cup that is now presented to thy lips!
現在呈獻到你脣邊的那盃辛辣而有益的苦酒，那人或許缺乏勇氣去接過來耑給自己，可我要提請你注意，不要阻止他去接受吧！
But sometimes, once in many days, or perchance in many months, she felt an eye- a human eye- upon the ignominious brand, that seemed to give a momentary relief, as if half of her agony were shared.
但也有時候——好多天有這麽一次，或者要好幾個月才有這麽一次，她會感到一雙眼睛——一雙人類的眼睛望著她那恥辱的印記，似乎能給她片刻的寬慰，象是分擔了她的一半痛苦。

He only had one argument not to kill himself: "To sleep, perchance to dream, for in that sleep of death what dreams may come when we have shuffled off this mortal coil might give us pause."
他衹有一個不自殺的理由：,“入睡，偶爾作夢，因爲在沉睡中，什麽夢都會出現,我們可以從中暫時擺脫塵世的煩惱”
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Or, perchance, we were delinquents before the British, and then they cured us.
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And what, perchance, can we expect in return for all that money?
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There had perchance been some pre-weeping, by him, in the woods.
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