| 词汇 | seem |
| 释义 | seem verb[ I+ adv/prep, L ] uk /siːm/ us /siːm/ B1 to give the effect of being; to be judged to be: 似乎；仿佛 He's 16, but he often seems (to be) younger.他16岁了，但往往看起来要小些。 The children seemed (as if/as though/like they were) tired.孩子们好像累了。 I suspect his claims are not all they seem - he tends to exaggerate.我怀疑他的断言并不都属实——他往往夸大其词。 Things are seldom as/how/what they seem.事情很少表里一致。 [ + to infinitive ]I seem to know more about him than anyone else.我似乎比其他人更了解他。 They seem to be taking a long time to decide.他们好像需要很长的时间才能作出决定。 [ + (that) ]It seems (that) she can't come.她好像来不了了。 It seems to me (that)(= I think that) he isn't the right person for the job.在我看来，他不是这项工作的合适人选。 formalIt would seem (that) no action need be taken.似乎不需要采取任何行动。 There seems to have been a mistake - my name isn't on the list.似乎出现了错误——我的名字不在名单上。 [ after so ]"There's no reply - they've all gone home." "So it seems."“没有答复——他们都已经回家了。”“好象是这样。” "Was a decision made?" "It seems not/so."“作出决定了吗？”“好象没作／作了。” She seemed happy enough this morning. The plan seemed quite simple. He seemed a bit depressed about his work situation.他似乎对自己的工作状况有些沮丧。 She seemed a bit detached, as if her mind were on other things.她似乎有些心不在焉，好像心思在别的事情上。 She seemed slightly embarrassed to see us there. Seeming and purporting to be apparent appear appearance as if/thoughidiom by the look(s) of thingsidiom come across come off formal outward outwardly outwardness parallax pass pass for sb/sth semblance superficial superficiality superficially supposably surface GrammarAppear or seem? We mostly use appear to talk about facts and events. We use seem to talk about facts, but also to talk about personal feelings and ideas. Seem is often used with a noun: … Seem + to-infinitive We can use seem with a to-infinitive: … Seem Seem means ‘appear in a particular way’. We can use it as a linking verb (like be) or with a to-infinitive. We do not normally use seem in the continuous form: … Seem as a linking verb Seem as a linking verb is followed by an adjective or, less commonly, a noun: … seem | American Dictionaryseem verb us/sim/ to appear to be: [ L ]You seem very quiet today. [ L ]He’s 16, but he seems younger. [ L ]The news seemed too good to be true. [ L ]She didn’t seem (to be) particularly happy. [ Ialways+ adv/prep ]They seemed like such a nice couple. [ + to infinitive ]I can’t seem to stay awake. Examples of seemseem The qualitative agreement seems satisfactory though the span of the rolling-grain region is theoretically overestimated. However, close monitoring and a quick response seem to be the key factors in achieving success. For genes that are evolutionarily more conserved, the use of the rice genome seems to be more promising. And the variety produced is of a richness that seems to belie the smooth, unobtrusive functioning of the instrument. In such a framework, there would seem to be no reason not to include social meaning along with 'ordinary' semantics and pragmatics. The result seems to be a purely dynamic one. The observed secondary instabilities often seem to be purely two-dimensional. These pronominals that indicate mid-level formality seem to include some element of closer psychological distance. The "successful" governess, it seems, manages her pupils into "successful" betrothals - just like the marriage plot novel. Nevertheless, it seems that there is a network of different psychological factors in play, which seem to be interconnected and influencing one another. Singing seemed to influence their psychological well-being and mental states significantly. It protected it by excluding from its realm the cases that seemed to escape multiple concordant testimony. The attraction of what might at first blush seem a redundant translation was that nature could speak in a clear and undistorted voice. It seems that the international observers overestimated their role in reducing the violence. One patient was refused because the fact that she already had a 4-month baby did not by itself seem a sufficiently strong indication. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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