potentially

1. ADJ 潜在的；可能的
   You use potential to say that someone or something is capable of developing into the particular kind of person or thing mentioned.
   1. The firm has identified 60 potential customers at home and abroad...
      该公司已在国内外找到60个潜在客户。
   2. ...potential party members...
      有可能发展成党员的人
   3. We are aware of the potential problems and have taken every precaution.
      我们已意识到潜在的问题，并采取了全面的预防措施。
2. N-UNCOUNT 潜力；潜质
   If you say that someone or something has potential, you mean that they have the necessary abilities or qualities to become successful or useful in the future.
   1. The boy has great potential...
      这个男孩非常有潜质。
   2. The school strives to treat pupils as individuals and to help each one to achieve their full potential...
      学校力求对每一个学生因材施教，帮助他们充分发挥其潜力。
   3. Denmark recognised the potential of wind energy early.
      丹麦早就认识到了风能的潜力。
   4. ...the economic potentials of Eastern and Western Europe.
      东欧和西欧的经济潜能
3. N-UNCOUNT 可能性；潜在性
   If you say that someone or something has potential for doing a particular thing, you mean that it is possible they may do it. If there is the potential for something, it may happen.
   1. John seemed as horrified as I about his potential for violence...
      约翰似乎和我一样害怕他自己会使用暴力。
   2. The meeting has the potential to be a watershed event...
      这次会议有可能成为具有转折性的事件。
   3. The potential for conflict is great...
      爆发冲突的可能性很大。
   4. Death and murder always lurk as potentials in very violent relationships.
      充满暴力的男女关系中总是存在着死亡和凶杀的可能性。

1. The water shortage in this country is potentially catastrophic
   这个国家的水资源匮乏可能会带来灾难性的后果。
2. Children and guns are a potentially lethal cocktail.
   让儿童接触枪支可能会有致命的危险。
3. The organization helped defuse potentially violent situations
   该组织帮忙化解了可能出现的暴力局面。
4. He appeared to be treating the potentially explosive situation with some sensitivity
   他似乎正小心地应对可能一触即发的局势。
5. It's believed the affair was potentially harmful to British aviation.
   据信该事件可能对英国航空业造成不利影响。
6. I honestly don't know how I will react the next time I meet a potentially dangerous situation
   我真不知道下次再碰上有潜在危险的情况时会作何反应。
7. This kind of fierce nationalism is a powerful and potentially volatile force.
   这种强烈的民族主义情绪是一股强大的、可能会突然爆发的潜在力量。
8. Sunburn is painful and potentially dangerous.
   晒伤不仅疼，还有潜在危险。
9. Do avoid potentially contentious subjects such as religion, sex or politics.
   一定要避免可能引起争议的话题，如宗教、性和政治。
10. Potentially high financial rewards are attached to senior hospital posts.
    当上医院的高级职员就有可能享受丰厚的经济报酬。
11. Many Britons will still fear the potentially ruinous costs of their legal system.
    很多英国人仍然会对其司法体系可能产生的高昂费用表示担忧。
12. It is very unnerving to find out that someone you see every day is carrying a potentially deadly virus.
    发现朝夕相处的人竟携带着一种可能致命的病毒是一件令人很不安的事情。
13. The situation is unstable and potentially dangerous.
    情况不稳定，可能有危险。
14. The benzenoid hydrocarbon are all nonclassical and, thus potentially aromatic.
    苯环型烃都是非经典烃，因此，可能是芳香烃。
15. These analyses depend on a number of potentially confounding factors such as nonstomatal transpiration and temperature.
    这些分析取决于非气孔蒸腾和温度这样一些可能混淆的因素。
16. Any alteration to DNA that can potentially result in a change in the function of one or more genes.
    任何有潜在性的会导致一个或更多基因的功能变化的DNA的改变。
17. You can add one catch for each fault that could potentially occur within the scope or the activity.
    可以为范围或活动中可能发生的每个错误添加一个捕获。
18. This can potentially encompass thousands of schemas and tables and millions of columns from differing databases and files.
    这可能包含数千个模式和表，以及数百万个来自不同数据库和文件的列。
19. This includes potentially sensitive information, such as stored passwords.
    这可能包含敏感信息，例如，所存储的密码。
20. Then you could potentially track the status of those activities more closely.
    那么理论上您就可以更紧密的追踪这些活动的状态了。
21. First you tabulate all the permutations and combinations of transactions that can be potentially processed in a test environment.
    首先，将所有可以在测试环境中处理的事务排列和组合添加到表格中。
22. Retailers have a potentially high interest in the infrastructure whereas suppliers might not be as convinced.
    零售商对于这种基础建设可能比较有兴趣，供应商却未必对它信服。
23. Stone walls and pillars can also fall down and are potentially dangerous.
    石墙和柱子也可能会倒塌，从而带来安全隐患。
24. Running outside is potentially dangerous, because roof tiles and glass may fall on you.
    跑到外面可能很危险，因为屋顶上掉落的砖瓦和玻璃有可能砸到你。
25. This translates into potentially thousands of dollars that you saved the employer.
    这就会转化为你潜在的为老板节省了上千美元。
26. Any way you look at it, this is a potentially explosive situation.
    不管你怎么看，这都是一种潜在爆炸性局势。
27. Your immune system is critical to identifying and destroying foreign and potentially cancerous cells.
    你的免疫系统对识别和摧毁非正常和潜在癌细胞至关重要。
28. Regulators believe that they break the link between performance and reward, potentially impairing bankers 'risk management.
    监管者认为，它割断了业绩和报酬之间的联系，有可能损害银行家的风险管理。
29. These findings could potentially lead to new treatments for serious infections and inflammatory diseases in patients.
    这项研究结果将有助于引导出有效的重度感染和发炎性疾病之新疗法。
30. It's potentially all contaminated.
    那可能都被污染了。

adv

1. with a possibility of becoming actual
   1. he is potentially dangerous
   2. potentially useful