1used to say that there is a good reason for a reaction, question, or feeling 很有理由〔作出某种反应、提出某个问题或产生某种情绪〕
‘What’s all the noise?’ ‘You may well ask.’
“什么声音这么吵?”“你问得好。”
Examples from the Corpus
may well ask• What happened to Rodney, you may well ask.• Who is Danny Baker, you may well ask?• You may well ask if such precision is really necessary!• So why, you may well ask, try to grow it then?• The studentmay well ask what is the solution to this problem.• But why write a novel, you may well ask, when we were aiming to make a movie?• We may well ask: where shall I begin in teaching a brand new congregation?• He didn't know I always carrypistols under my cloak, and he may well ask why.