likely

[ˈlaɪkli] [ˈlaɪkli]
同义词
反义词
  • adj.
    likely的反义词之:很可能的
    unlikely
  • likely的反义词之:其他释义
    unlikely
同义词解析
  • 以下这些形容词均包含 "倾向于……的;易于……的" 的意思
    liable指易于产生某种不利的结果,侧重偶然性,常表示警告或提醒。
    apt口语中常用,指自然的或习惯的倾向,无特殊的褒贬意味,常指在一般情况下发生的事。
    likely侧重可能性,用于指将来,预言希望或所不希望的结果。
    prone多用于人,着重其本性,或倾向于某种错误、弱点或不良行为等。
    subject指确实可以察觉的倾向,也就是总结出来的规律。
词组
  • a likely story
    used to express disbelief of an account or excuse [表示对陈述和借口的怀疑]编出来的吧,假的吧
  • as likely as not
    probably 很可能
  • not likely!
    (informal)certainly not; I refuse (非正式)当然不,我不干
英语四级真题
  • It is likely to change the narrative of one's life.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • It is likely to be a critical turning point in one's life.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • Instead of giving people practice, the gradual reduction likely gave them cravings ( ' , 瘾) and withdrawal symptoms before they even reached quit day, which could be why fewer people in that group actually made it to that point.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • And although their memories are vast, they are still likely to suffer from false memories.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • He also believes they will be more likely to trust selfdriving cars as they become more familiar with features such as automatic braking or parking.
    出自-2017年6月听力原文
  • Those who were more self-disciplined, for instance, were no more likely to live to be very old.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • They were less likely to report symptoms of depression than those in the other facilities, for instance, and less likely to be bored or lonely.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • They generally appear more resourceful They are more likely to get over hardship.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • That study looked at nearly 28,000 Norwegian mothers and found that those moms who were more anxious, depressed and angry were more likely to feed their kids unhealthy diets.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • People with unhealthy eating habits are likely to die sooner.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • Long-living women are also more likely to be sympathetic and cooperative than women with a normal life span.
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  • Interestingly, however, other characteristics that you might consider advantageous had no impact on whether study participants were likely to live longer.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • Today’s shaky economy is likely to prduce m any more such tricks.
    出自-2016年6月听力原文
  • They avoid challenges because challenges make mistakes more likely.
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  • The most likely type of burglary ( ' , 入室盗窃) by far is the unsophisticated crime of opportunity, usually involving a broken window or some forced entry.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • The global economy is likely to undergo another recession.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • Students with such a growth mind-set were destined ( ' , 注定) for greater academic success and were quite likely to outperform their counterparts.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • Sara Johnson acknowledges that the global economic benefit from a fall in oil prices today is likely lower than it was in the past.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • Research shows that managers who have a fixed mind-set are less likely to seek or welcome feedback from their employees than are managers with a growth mind-set.
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  • More fast food restaurants are likely to follow McDonald's example.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • It means that a thief likely wouldn't be able to Google how the system works, then figure out a way around it.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • It should be made clear that not everyone has a device to record their sleep patterns; in some of these nations, it's likely that only the richest people do.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • It is not likely to attract lots of investors and nerds.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • Grown-ups are likely to think that learning to children is what medicine is to patients.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • Cooking real food is the best defense—not to mention that any meal you're likely to eat at home contains about 200 fewer calories than one you would eat in a restaurant.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • Many of its 800 stores are likely to close following the company’s decision to call in administrators after an attempt to sell the business for a token £1 failed.
    出自-2015年12月听力原文
  • A transportation expert told the reporter that job growth likely plays a part as well, along with some people driving longer distances to and from work.
    2017年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section A
  • And although their memories are vast, they are still likely to suffer from "false memories".
    2017年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • And new research reveals that men are more likely to receive excellent letters of recommendation, too.
    2017年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • As solar panels get cheaper, the world is likely to see more skyscrapers covered in solar panels, collecting energy much like trees do.
    2018年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section A
  • But as with any study of this kind, it was unclear if that was the cause—or if breakfast-skippers were just more likely to be overweight to begin with.
    2019年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • Economic factors seem to explain less of why young adult women are increasingly likely to live at home.
    2019年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • Employed young men are much less likely to live at home than young men without a job, and employment among young men has fallen significantly in recent decades.
    2019年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • Female applicants to postdoctoral positions in geosciences were nearly half as likely to receive excellent letters of recommendation, compared with their male counterparts.
    2017年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • For their part, young men 25% are more likely than young women 19% to be living in the home of another family member, a non-relative or in some type of group quarters.
    2019年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • girls who graduate from single-sex schools are three times more likely to become engineers than those who attend coeducational schools.
    2019年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • He also believes they will be more likely to trust self-driving cars as they become more familiar with features such as automatic braking or parking.
    2017年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section A
  • If parents and children share interests and values and agree on child rearing practices and religious 33 commitment, they are likely to enjoy each other's company.
    2016年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section A
  • In 2014, for the first time in more than 1 years, adults aged 18 to were slightly more likely to be living in their parents' home than they were to be living with a spouse or partner in their own household.
    2019年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • In addition, trends in both employment status and wages have likely contributed to the growing share of young adults who are living in the home of their parents, and this is especially true of young men.
    2019年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • In an all girls setting, girls are more likely to speak up frequently and make significant contributions to class than in a coeducational setting.
    2019年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • In general, the study found that undergraduates were almost as likely as old people to make this mistake and men as likely as women.
    2019年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
  • In one US study that analysed the health data of 50,000 people over seven years, researchers found that those who made breakfast the largest meal of the day were more likely to have a lower body mass index BMI than those who ate a large lunch or dinner.
    2019年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • Instead of giving people practice, the gradual reduction likely gave them cravings 瘾 and withdrawal symptoms before they even reached quit day, which could be why fewer people in that group actually made it to that point.
    2017年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
  • It seems likely, then, that the traditional three-stage life will evolve into multiple stages containing two, three or oven more different careers.
    2019年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • James Bentham, a co-author of the research from Imperial College, London, says the global trend is likely to be due primarily to improvements in nutrition and healthcare.
    2019年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • Late November and December saw early snow and bone-chilling temperatures in much of the country, part of a year when, for the first time in two decades, record-cold days will likely turn out to have outnumbered record-warm ones.
    2015年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section A
  • Many of its 800 stores are likely to close following the company's decision to call in administrators after an attempt to sell the business for a token £1 failed.
    2015年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section A
  • Many of the store group's 25,000 employees are likely to lose their jobs.
    2015年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section A
  • Research has also shown that in coeducational settings, teachers are more likely to praise and give in-depth responses to boys' comments in class.
    2019年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • Students are more likely to think about their actions and see whether they will lead to trouble.
    2019年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • Students with such a growth mind-set were destined for greater academic success and were quite likely to outperform their counterparts.
    2016年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • That study looked at nearly 28, 000 Norwegian mothers and found that those moms who were more anxious, depressed and angry were more likely to feed their kids unhealthy diets.
    2016年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
  • The most likely type of burglary by far is the unsophisticated crime of opportunity, usually involving a broken window or some forced entry.
    2016年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • The scientists concluded that lions are also likely to live in the neighbouring National Park across the border in Sudan.
    2017年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section A
  • They are also more likely to encourage boys to work through problems on their own, while they tend to step in and help girls who struggle with a problem.
    2019年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • They found that female applicants were only half as likely to get outstanding letters, compared with their male counterparts.
    2017年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • They're more likely to be widowed, and if they're the ones who become ill, they're more likely to get divorced.
    2019年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
  • This is mainly because women are more likely than men to be single parents living with their children.
    2019年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • While the study didn't assess why divorce is more likely when wives but not husbands become seriously ill, Karraker offers a few possible reasons.
    2019年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
  • While they sound efficient and cost-saving, a recent study reports that they are not effective, primarily because depressed patients are not likely to engage with them or stick with them.
    2019年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
英语六级真题
  • White parents are more likely than others to read to their children daily, as are married parents.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • While alternative estimates of the damage from carbon emissions differ, and it's especially hard to reckon the likely costs of possible catastrophic climate events, most estimates suggest substantial negative effects.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • Unless renewables become cheap enough that substantial carbon deposits are left underground for a very long time, if not forever, the planet will likely be exposed to potentially catastrophic climate risks.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • They are more likely to grow up in neighborhoods that their parents say aren't great for raising children, and their parents worry about them getting shot, beaten up or in trouble with the law.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • They are more likely to be at risk of dying.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • These likely persistent forces, like the growth of shale ( ' , 页岩) oil, point to a low for long scenario.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • Most affluent parents enroll their children in preschool or day care, while low-income parents are more likely to depend on family members.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • More than a quarter of children live in single-parent households—a historic high, according to Pew—and these children are three times as likely to live in poverty as those who live with married parents.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • Less-educated parents, and poorer and black and Latino parents are more likely to believe that there is no such thing as too much involvement in a child's education.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • Interest in elite high school math competitions has grown in recent years, and in light of last summer's U.S. win at the International Math Olympiad ( ' , IMO)—the first for an American team in more than two decades— the trend is likely to continue.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • Higher-income children are more likely to declare boredom and expect their parents to solve their problems.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • High-earning parents are much more likely to say they live in a good neighborhood for raising children.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • Fossil fuel prices are likely to stay low for long.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • Children from higher-income families are likely to have the skills to navigate bureaucracies and succeed in schools and workplaces, Ms.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • Andrea Flack of the Max Planck Institute found that birds following traditional migration routes were more likely to die than German storks that flew only as far as northern Morocco, and spent the winter there on rubbish dumps.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • With a tax imposed on expensive health insurance plans, most employers will likely transfer money from health expenses into wages.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • The fundamental fix—reshaping how care is delivered and how doctors are paid in a wasteful, abnormal system—is likely to be achieved only through trial and error and incremental ( ' , 渐进的) gains.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • That is far less likely to happen if Congress also adopts strong pay-go rules requiring that any increase in payments to providers be offset by new taxes or budget cuts.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • Just having a strong teacher for one elementary year left pupils a bit less likely to become mothers as teenagers, a bit more likely to go to college and earning more money at age 28.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • It would most likely cause insurers to redesign plans to fall beneath the threshold.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • The report warnsthe picture on wages is likely to get worse this year despite indications of an economic rebound.
    出自-2016年6月听力原文
  • a basis for explaining human genetic diversityan aid to understanding different populationsan explanation for social and cultural differencesa term to describe individual human characteristicsmodern genetics research is likely to fuel racial conflictsrace is a poorly defined marker of human genetic diversityrace as a biological term can explain human genetic diversitygenetics research should consider social and cultural variablesit is absolutely necessary to put race aside in making diagnosisit is important to include social variables in genetics researchracial categories for genetic diversity could lead to wrong clinical predictionsdiscrimination against black people may cause negligence in clinical treatmentThey be more precise with the language they use.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • The group that scored high on all nine of the risk behaviors was most likely to show symptoms of depression; in all, nearly 15% of this group reported being depressed, compared with just 4% of the low-risk group.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • The employees were less likely to leave their jobs, resulting in reduced turnover.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • Students do not merely benefit while at university; studies show- they go on to be healthier and happier than non-graduates, and also far more likely to vote.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • Students at university also meet those likely to be in leading jobs in the future, forming contacts for life.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • Research finds that if employees suffer from high stress, they will be less motivated, less productive and more likely to quit.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • Of the 300 employees participating in the study, those who experienced high levels of telepressure were more likely to agree with statements assessing burnout, like I've no energy for going to work in the morning, and to report feeling fatigued and unfocused.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • If employees respond quickly to their job assignments, the employer is likely to demand more from them.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • They typically carry financial burdens that outweigh those of their peers, are more likely to work while attending school, and often require significant academic remediation ( ' , 补习 ).
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • So what factors, at the community level, do predict if poor children will move up the economic ladder as adults? What explains, for instance, why the Salt Lake City metro area is one of the 100 largest metropolitan areas most likely to lift the fortunes of the poor and the Atlanta metro area is one of the least likely?Harvard economist Raj Chetty has pointed to economic and racial segregation, community density, the size of a community's middle class, the quality of schools, community religiosity, and family structure, which he calls the single strongest correlate of upward mobility.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • Per-capita local government spendingIn other words, communities with high levels of per-capita income growth, high percentages of two-parent families, and high local government spending—which may stand for good schools— are the most likely to help poor children relive Horatio Alger's rags-to-riches story.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • Kids who are the first in their families to brave the world of higher education came on campus with little academic know- how and are much more likely than their peers to drop out before graduation.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • Chetty finds that communities like Salt Lake City, with high levels of two-parent families and religiosity, are much more likely to see poor children get ahead than communities like Atlanta, with high levels of racial and economic segregation.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • These are likely to have more resources andmore knowledge about all aspects of advertising and advertising media than single company.
    出自-2015年12月听力原文
  • "The presence of peers makes adolescents and youth,but not adults, more likely to take risks," Steinberg and Gardner concluded.
    2018年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • And a 2015 study from the University of California, Berkeley, found that teens who go to bed late are more likely to gain weight over a five-year period.
    2017年12月六级真题(第二套)听力  Section B 
  • And they were more likely to have a criminal record and to be raising a child as a single parent on a very low income.
    2016年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • And we also need to plan ahead so that we're in a position to deal with the likely levels of climate change which are already inevitable and even more so too for the levels that are likely if we don't get those global agreements.
    2016年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section A
  • And we are less likely to lie when we have moral reminders or when we think others are watching.
    2019年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
  • Any take-back program will likely change over time, depending on what works for your customers and company goals.
    2019年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • As a possible home for alien life, it has been voted the planet least likely to succeed.
    2019年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • But good self-control can be set to run in families in that children who have good self-control are more likely to grow up to be healthy and prosperous parents.
    2016年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • Chetty finds that communities like Salt Lake city, with high levels of two- parent families and religiosity, are much more likely to see poor children get ahead than communities like Atlanta, with high levels of racial and economic segregation.
    2015年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
  • Children with attention problems in early childhood were 40% less likely to graduate from high school, says a new study from Duke University.
    2018年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
  • Few babies survive this rare condition, and those who do must endure numerous operations and are likely to have complex needs.
    2019年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • kids who are the first in their families to brave the world of higher education came on campus with little academic know-how and are much more likely than their peers to drop out before graduation.
    2015年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • For a follow-up analysis, he found that people whose neural reward centres were more active when they won money were also more likely to be among the group of liars一suggesting that lying may have to do with the inability to resist temptation.
    2019年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
  • Further, the more their computer gave them problems, the more likely the respondents were to report that it had its own "beliefs and conscientiousness".
    2019年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section A
  • Future farms will likely experience a greater deal of autonomy as robots take up more and more farm work efficiently.
    2018年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
  • When a tree first starts growing in a certain area, it's likely that the 27 climatic envelope—the temperature, humidity, rainfall patterns and so on—suits it.
    2016年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section A
  • high earning parents are much more likely to say they live in a good neighborhood for raising children.
    2017年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • higher-income children are more likely to declare boredom and expect their parents to solve their problems.
    2017年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • If we weren't on our devices,we'd likely do something similarly unproductive.
    2017年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • In one experiment, people who reported feeling isolated were more likely than others to attribute desires to various gadgets.
    2019年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section A
  • In other words, communities with high levels of per-capita income growth, high percentages of two-parent families, and high local government spending — which may stand for good schools — are the most likely to help poor children relive Horatio Alger's rag
    2015年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
  • It seems likely that Census simply misclassifies a large chunk of online sales.
    2019年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • It turns out that the less skilled pianist spends more time looking at her fingers than does the expert who, in contrast, is more likely to be looking at the sheet music, or looking ahead at keys he's not yet playing.
    2019年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • It's likely you prefer to feel happy instead of sad or confident instead of insecure.
    2016年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • New research says that those who can't seem to keep their inner monologues in are actually more likely to stay on task, remain focused better and show improved perception capabilities.
    2017年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section A
  • Now a new study has provided another contribution to the debate, uncovering strong evidence that adolescent well-being in the United States really is experiencing a decline and arguing that the most likely cause is the electronic riches we have given them
    2019年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • Of course, as most of us forget memories from our first few years as we grow older, this early long-turn memories will likely be lost in subsequent years.
    2019年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • Of the 300 employees participating in the study, those who experienced high levels of telepressure were more likely to agree with statements assessing burnout, like "I've no energy for going to work in the morning", and to report feeling fatigued and unfo
    2016年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • On the other hand, scientists disagree about how much and when they should share data, and they debate whether sharing it is more likely to accelerate science and make it more robust, or to introduce vulnerabilities and problems.
    2017年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • One useful tip is that things are more likely to be remembered if you are in exactly the same state and place as you were when you learned them.
    2017年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • People who are susceptible to decision fatigue will likely choose to do nothing over something, he says.
    2018年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
  • Physicians who have been on the job for several hours, for example, are more likely to prescribe antibiotics to patients when it's unwise to do so.
    2018年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
  • Playing sounds into the right ears stimulating the left hemispher of 27 volunteers was more likely to wake them up than if the noises were played into their left ears.
    2017年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section A
  • Says IFPri's Marie Ruel, "They will be more likely to perform well in school."
    2015年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • So they are likely to remain rich peopled playthings rather than practical transport solutions for the masses.
    2019年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section A
  • So, children with minor self-control problems were likely as adults to have minor health problems, and so on.
    2016年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • Some of our research is to do with the likely impacts of climate change and all of the associated risks.
    2016年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section A
  • Steinberg and Bahareh Keith, an assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Florida College of Medicine, say most children will likely never experience problems related to what their parents share, but a tension still exists between parents' ri
    2018年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • Students do not merely benefit while at university; studies show they go on to be healthier and happier than non-graduates, and also far more likely to vote.
    2016年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
  • That is far less likely to happen if Congress also adopts strong "pay-go" rules requiring that any increase in payments to providers be offset by new taxes or budget cuts.
    2016年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • The employees were less likely to leave their jobs, resulting in reduced turnover.
    2016年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • The fundamental fix—reshaping how care is delivered and how doctors are paid in a wasteful, abnormal system—is likely to be achieved only through trial and error and incremental gains.
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  • Adjective
    1. has a good chance of being the case or of coming about;
    "these services are likely to be available to us all before long""she is likely to forget""a likely place for a restaurant""the broken limb is likely to fall""rain is likely""a likely topic for investigation""likely candidates for the job"
    2. likely but not certain to be or become true or real;
    "a likely result""he foresaw a probable loss"
    3. expected to become or be; in prospect;
    "potential clients""expected income"
    4. within the realm of credibility;
    "not a very likely excuse""a plausible story"
  • Adverb
    1. with considerable certainty; without much doubt;
    "He is probably out of the country""in all likelihood we are headed for war"