1. 用作副词，表示“也许”，表不确定语气，常位于句首，有时也放在句中或句末。如：
Perhaps we’ll find him at the hotel. 也许我们会在旅馆里找到他。
This is perhaps the best dish in this restaurant. 这也许是这个餐馆最好的菜。
You’d better go now, perhaps. 也许你最好现在去。
2. 可用于省略句中，尤其是简略答语中。如：
A：Will he lend us the money? 他会借钱给我们吗?
B：Perhaps so (not). 也许会（不会）吧。
3. 用于Perhaps you would…句式，意为“是否可以请你……”“请你……好吗”。如：
Perhaps you wouldtake this suitcase for me. 你给我拿一下这个手提箱行吗。
Perhaps you would be kind enough to open the door.
Perhaps she likes me, perhaps she doesn't...Oh, I just don't know!
也许她喜欢我，也许她根本不在乎……噢，我真的不知道。
There were perhaps eight paces between him and the tiger.
他距老虎可能有八步远。
She obeyed his directions very punctually; perhaps she had no temptation to transgress .
她很敏捷地服从他的指示：也许她没有想违法犯规的心思。
It's the largest, perhaps the most potent venom.
这是最大，也许是毒性最厉害的毒液。
Perhaps she will be there.
她可能会到那里。
※Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.——Robert Louis Stevenson, British novelist 也许从事政治是人们认为唯一不必作任何准备就能从事的职业。英国小说家 斯蒂文森.R.L.
