might

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 [maɪt]|[mɑjt]    美 [mɐɪt]|[mɑɪt]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Power, strength, force, or influence held by a person or group. countable,uncountable
    — […]ſtrengthed with all myght, thꝛough his gloꝛious power, unto all pacience and long ſufferyng with ioifulneſſe[…]
  2. Physical strength or force. uncountable
    — He pushed with all his might, but still it would not move.
  3. The ability to do something. uncountable
动词 v.
  1. simple past of may auxiliary,form-of,no-past-participle,no-present-participle,past
    — He asked me if he might go to the party, but I haven't decided yet.
  2. simple past of may; Used to indicate a desired past action that was not done. auxiliary,no-past-participle,no-present-participle
    — You might have warned me about the thunderstorm.
  3. Used to indicate conditional or possible actions; would perhaps/maybe. auxiliary,no-past-participle,no-present-participle
    — Well, I might go to a party, but I haven't decided yet.
  4. Used concessively to admit something before making a more accurate or important statement; although auxiliary,no-past-participle,no-present-participle
    — I might be in a wheelchair, but I still want to be treated as a lady.
  5. Used in polite requests for permission. auxiliary,no-past-participle,no-present-participle
    — "Might I take the last biscuit? I wonder if I might have a little more coffee too." "Yes you may, help yourself.".
  6. Used to express certainty. UK,auxiliary,no-past-participle,no-present-participle
    — Yeah, I think we might need something a bit sturdier.
形容词 adj.
  1. Mighty; powerful. obsolete
  2. Possible. obsolete

词形变化

mights plural mite alternative,informal,pronunciation-spelling mought alternative,dialectal,obsolete mighter comparative mightest superlative mite alternative,informal,pronunciation-spelling mought alternative,dialectal,obsolete might present,singular,third-person might past mought alternative mout alternative med alternative,dialectal

词汇关系

衍生词
almighty might and main mighteous mightful mightiness might is right mightless mightly might makes right mightsome mighty unmight with all one's might if I might be so bold might as well might-be might can might could might-have-been might should monkeys might fly out of my butt pigs might fly so crazy it just might work so crazy it might just work try as one might
相关词
could

词源

词源 1
From Middle English maught, might, miȝt, myght, from Old English maht, meaht, meht, mieht, miht, mæht (“ability, power; strength; virtue”), from Proto-West Germanic *mahti, from Proto-Germanic *mahtiz (“ability, power; force, strength”), from Proto-Indo-European *(me)mógʰe (“to be able to, to have power”), from *megʰ- (“to be able”), corresponding to Germanic *maganą (“to be able, may”) + *-þiz. Equivalent to may + -th.
Cognates
Cognate with Scots micht (“might”), Yola mought (“might”), Dutch macht (“might, power”), German Macht (“might, power”), Luxembourgish Muecht (“authority, might, power”), Yiddish מאַכט (makht, “might, power”), Faroese and Icelandic máttur (“might, strength”), Danish magt (“power; force”), Norwegian Bokmål makt (“power”), Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish makt (“power; force”), mått (“might, power”), Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐌷𐍄𐍃 (mahts, “ability, might, power”), and further to Irish smacht (“ordinance, regulation, rule; dominion, sway; control, discipline, restraint; fine, penalty”), Greek μάγος (mágos, “magician; sorcerer, wizard”), Lithuanian mėgti (“to like”), Belarusian моц (moc, “might, power”), Bulgarian мощ (mošt, “might, power”), Czech and Polish moc (“might, power”), Macedonian моќ (moḱ, “might, power”), Russian мочь (močʹ, “power, might”) and мощь (moščʹ, “force, strength”), Serbo-Croatian мо̑ћ, mȏć (“power; strength; potency; authority”), Slovene moč (“power; strength”), Ukrainian міч (mič) and міць (micʹ, “might, power”), Armenian մոգ (mog, “magus; fire-worshiper, Zoroastrian; astrologer; diviner, enchanter, sorcerer, wizard”), Persian مغ (moġ, “magus”), Sanskrit मघ (magha, “power, wealth; bounty, gift, reward”). See more at may.
词源 2
From Old English meahte and mihte, inflections of magan, whence English may.
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