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n. 可能，可能性14 次
While AI offers exciting possibilities, it also raises ethical [concerns].
尽管人工智能带来了令人兴奋的可能性，但它也引发了伦理方面的{{13}}。
the possibility of losing information in obsolete formats.
信息因格式过时而丢失的可能性。
Not to mention, if the process you’re scrapping is one someone else suggested, there’s the possibility of hurt feelings.
更不用说，如果你要废除的流程是别人提出的，还有可能伤害别人的感情。
Chaudhary said that Britain should explore the possibility that older siblings helping their parents “might also enhance their own social development.”
乔杜里说，英国应该探讨这样一种可能性：年长的兄弟姐妹帮助父母照顾弟妹，“或许也能促进他们自身的社会性发展。”
(48) One possibility was that they merely used their eyes and tried out the plants they found, but that would probably result in a lot of wasted time and energy, not least because their eyesight is actually not very good.
（48）一种可能是，它们仅仅靠眼睛观察，并尝试所发现的植物，但这很可能会浪费大量时间和精力，尤其是因为它们的视力其实并不好。
Travellers on the Silk Road [faced] the possibility of being attacked by thieves or being [subjected] to extreme weather conditions.
丝绸之路上的旅行者面临着遭盗贼袭击或遭受极端天气的可能。
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Don’t dismiss that possibility entirely.
不要完全排除这种可能性。
Today, widespread social pressure to immediately go to college in conjunction with increasingly high expectations in a fast-moving world often causes students to completely overlook the possibility of taking a gap year.
如今，要求立即上大学的普遍社会压力，再加上在这个快速变化的世界里日益提高的期望，常常使学生完全忽略了间隔年的可能性。
Their analysis ruled out the possibility that it was firms’ political influence, rather than their CSR stand, that accounted for the leniency: Companies that contributed more to political campaigns did not receive lower fines.
他们的分析排除了一种可能性，即从轻处罚是因为公司的政治影响力而非其企业社会责任立场：为政治竞选捐款更多的公司并没有被处以更低的罚款。
[While] this doesn’t prove that happiness causes firms to invest more or to take a longer-term view, the authors believe it at least [hints] at that possibility.
{{17}}这并不能证明快乐会使公司投资更多或着眼更长远，但作者认为它至少{{18}}了这种可能性。
The possibility of full employment.
实现充分就业的可能性。
For all the possibilities of our new culture machines, most people are still stuck in download mode.
尽管我们的新型文化机器提供了种种可能，大多数人仍困于“下载”模式中。
it intends to deny the possibility of devaluation.
它打算否认货币贬值的可能性。
n. 可能的事，希望6 次
Those realistic possibilities are highlighted in the study presented by David Graddol.
戴维·格拉多尔发表的研究突出强调了这些现实的可能性。
The anticipation of possible shifts in demand provided by this study is significant: (50) It gives a basis to all organisations which seek to promote the learning and use of English, a basis for planning to meet the possibilities of what could be a very different operating environment.
这项研究对需求可能发生的变化所做的预测意义重大：(50) 它为所有致力于推动英语学习和使用的组织提供了一个依据，一个为应对可能截然不同的运营环境而进行规划的依据。
This isn’t surprising, considering the basic mandatory high school curriculum leaves students with a poor understanding of the vast academic possibilities that await them in college.
这并不奇怪，因为高中基础必修课程让学生对大学里等待着他们的广阔学术可能性知之甚少。
Enjoy the beauty of the world around and keep the eyes open to see the possibilities before you.
享受周围世界的美好，睁大眼睛去发现眼前的种种可能。
The potential evolution of today’s technology, and its social consequences, is dazzlingly complicated, and it’s perhaps best left to science fiction writers and futurologists to explore the many possibilities we can envisage.
当今技术可能的演变及其社会影响复杂得令人眼花缭乱，也许最好留给科幻作家和未来学家去探索我们所能设想的种种可能。
(50) The upside is the possibilities contained in knowing that everything is up to us; where before we were experts in the array of limitations, now we become authorities of what is possible.
（50）好的一面在于，认识到一切都取决于我们自己，就蕴含着种种可能；以前我们是罗列各种限制的专家，现在我们则成了探索种种可能的权威。