► 名詞
可能性 [かのうせい] meaning: possible rank: 2
☆ それが成功する可能性は低い ⇨ Its possibility of success is low
☆ 可能性に満ちた若者 ⇨ Young people full of possibilities
☆ 堤防が決壊する可能性が有る ⇨ There is a possibility that the levee will break
More examples:
- 価格は変動の可能性有りと注記されている ⇨ It is noted that the price is subject to change
- その可能性は無きにしも非ずだ (なきにしもあらず) ⇨ That possibility is not necessarily zero
- 可能性は五分五分だろう ⇨ The chance is fifty fifty
- その可能性は大いに有る ⇨ There’s a big possibility for that. That’s is very possible
- そうなる可能性が全く無いという訳ではない ⇨ It is not that there is zero possibility for that to happen
- 彼等が勝つ可能性は薄い ⇨ There’s little chance they win
- この技術には果てしない可能性がある ⇨ This technology has limitless possibilities
- その可能性は事実上皆無だ ⇨ That possibility is practically zero
- 汚染の可能性のある食品は全て廃棄処分になった ⇨ All the foods with possibility of the contamination have been discarded
- 彼の可能性は無限だ ⇨ His potential is limitless
- 彼は新しい可能性を求めて海外に移住した ⇨ He emigrated to a foreign country looking for new opportunities
- この技術は世界を変える可能性を秘めている ⇨ This technology has the potential to change the world
- 両社は合併する可能性が濃厚になった ⇨ The possibility has become strong, it has become very likely, that the two companies will merge
- 彼等は競争相手に共同開発の可能性を打診した ⇨ They put out feelers to a competitor about a possibility of joint development
- 彼はその技術に可能性を見出した ⇨ He saw potential in the technology