could

could[强 kud; 弱 kəd]

• v.
  • can¹的过去式
• v.aux.
  • can¹的过去式[在现在时或将来时的动词短语中作助动词，表示有点怀疑或较小的可能性]能，可能：

    It could be so.

    可能如此。

  • [作助动词，表示允许、许可]能，可以：

    Could I go?

    我能去吗?

    Could I borrow your pen?

    我可以借用你的笔吗?

  • [用于虚拟语气结构中，表示与现在事实相反的假设]能，可以：

    It would help if he could wait.

    如果他能等待，那将会有所帮助。

  • [在虚拟语气结构中表示与过去事实相反的假设]能，可以，得以：

    He would have left if he could.

    如果他能够的话，他本来是会离开的。

  • [用于婉转语气、有礼貌地提议，比用can 更具婉转含义] 能：

    Could you wait?

    您等一下好吗?

• gated communities
• tent caterpillar
• soapiest
• swell-rule
• superseding
• souther
• raised neck
• pomfrets
• fuzzing
• erotematic method
• selenographic latitude
• anth-
• busings
• harefooted
• cellularities
• make a long harvest of a little corn
• manlikely
• thunderings
• rituality
• tut-tutted
• merisis
• dorsal
• Greenville
• paraders
• pars intermedias
• Fringillidae
• output formatter
• brier-rose
• depraved
• bellevues
• numerical analysis
• pikelets
• pentathlon
• LVT
• as dark as midnight
• seed ferns
• tough toenails
• Liebfraumilch
• circumjovials
• cacodyls
• St. Martin's summer
• Westphalian
• marital fertility rate
• settledown
• be after no good
• rhomboidally
• morphotic
• Hippoglossidae
• with breathless attention
• precensorship
• peritectoid
• ground station
• refinish
• rotary drill
• solid-state component
• staffwork
• be up on the point of
• doumas
• the scum of the earth
• user profiles
• weep one's eyes out
• tape-punching
• pulpies
• patrimonial
• piecemeal stoping
• buckstay
• firedamps
• nemerteans
• rusty blotch
• hold good for
• Manhattanization
• with your tail between your legs
• have the world at your feet
• T lymphocyte
• tympany
• vanquish
• weakmindedness
• disguised
• mains
• serpentess
• low-paids
• make up to sb
• csc
• photoactivations
• leave ... for
• work sb over
• bid sb good afternoon / good morning etc
• flash burner
• take it into your head that…
• encapsidate
• superweeds
• compressive
• living quarters
• disjoinable
• Acanthuridae
• direct expansion
• access distance
• raffinate
• Singer Isaac Bashevis
• peninsulates