perhaps
要点おそらく
意味
- おそらく,ことによると,ひょっとしたら,たぶん
例文
Perhaps Tom is too old to do this kind of thing.
トムがこういうことやるには、年齢が高すぎるかもしれないな。
He wasn't perhaps playing a practical joke on us.
彼はおそらく私たちに悪ふざけをしたのではなかろう。
Perhaps they can feel the lines with their bodies.
おそらく彼らは自分たちの体にこの磁力線を感じることができるのでしょう。
語源
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
From Middle English perhappes, perhappous, variant of earlier perhap (“perhaps, possibly”), equivalent to per- + hap (“chance, coincidence”) + -s, on model of Middle English parchaunce (modern perchance).