appear是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为vi. 出现; 出场; 问世; 仿佛; 出版, 发表,这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢,今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I know a friend who has a beef-faced boy; a fine boy, they call him; with a round head, and red cheeks, and glaring eyes; a horrid boy; with a body and limbs that appear to be swelling out of the seams of his blue clothes; with the voice of a pilot, and the appetite of a wolf.
-- Such changes appear absurd; but they are not so unnatural as they would seem at first sight.
-- The flame th rew a ghastly light on their shrivelled faces, and made their ugliness appear terrible, as, in this position, they began to converse in a low voice.
-- 'I shouldn't wish to appear ill-mannered, gentlemen,' said the third, who had called the dogs back, 'Mr.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'You appear to me, Mr. Darcy, to allow nothing for the influence of friendship and affection.
-- You are charmingly grouped, and appear to uncommon advantage.
-- 'You either choose this method of passing the evening because you are in each other's confidence, and have secret affairs to dis-cuss, or because you are conscious that your figures appear to the greatest advantage in walking; if the first, I would be completely in your way, and if the second, I can admire you much better as I sit by the fire.'
-- Not to appear to disgrace his family, to degen-erate from the popular qualities, or lose the influence of the Pemberley House, is a powerful motive.
-- When the dancing recommenced, however, and Darcy approached to claim her hand, Charlotte could not help cautioning her in a whisper, not to be a simpleton, and al-low her fancy for Wickham to make her appear unpleasant in the eyes of a man ten times his consequence.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- this was but a taste of the misery I was to go through, as will appear in the sequel of this story.
-- We made signs of thanks to them, for we had nothing to make them amends; but an opportunity offered that very instant to oblige them wonderfully; for while we were lying by the shore came two mighty creatures, one pursuing the other (as we took it) with great fury from the mountains to-wards the sea; whether it was the male pursuing the female, or whether they were in sport or in rage, we could not tell, any more than we could tell whether it was usual or strange, but I believe it was the latter; because, in the first place, those ravenous creatures seldom appear but in the night; and, in the second place, we found the people terribly frighted, es-pecially the women.
-- The rainy season and the dry season began now to appear regular to me, and I learned to divide them so as to provide for them accordingly; but I bought all my experience before I had it, and this I am going to relate was one of the most discouraging experiments that I made.
-- But notwithstanding this, with patience and labour I got through everything that my cir-cumstances made necessary to me to do, as will appear by what follows.
-- This was exemplified in me, at this time, in the most lively manner imaginable; for I, whose only affliction was that I seemed banished from human society, that I was alone, circum-scribed by the boundless ocean, cut off from mankind, and condemned to what I call silent life; that I was as one whom Heaven thought not worthy to be numbered among the liv-ing, or to appear among the rest of His creatures; that to have seen one of my own species would have seemed to me a raising me from death to life, and the greatest blessing that Heaven itself, next to the supreme blessing of salvation, could bestow; I say, that I should now tremble at the very apprehensions of seeing a man, and was ready to sink into the ground at but the shadow or silent appearance of a man having set his foot in the island.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They were cheered by the joy of the servants on their arrival, and each for the sake of the others resolved to appear happy.
-- I can easily suppose that his age may appear much greater to you than to my mother; but you can hardly deceive yourself as to his having the use of his limbs!"
-- When does she try to avoid society, or appear restless and dissatisfied in it?"
-- As this silence continued, every day made it appear more strange and more incompatible with the disposition of both.
-- Lucy was naturally clever; her remarks were often just and amusing; and as a companion for half an hour Elinor frequently found her agreeable; but her powers had received no aid from education: she was ignorant and illiterate; and her deficiency of all mental improvement, her want of information in the most common particulars, could not be concealed from Miss Dashwood, in spite of her constant endeavour to appear to advantage.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Now, if he should appear on the scene with a few friends, he could say that he had been urged to come along.
-- He looked rather foolish at this answer, and then attempted to correct himself so as not to appear a dupe.
-- Now, because Carrie was pretty, the gentlemen who made up the advance illustrations of shows about to appear for the Sunday papers selected Carrie's photo along with others to illustrate the announcement.
-- It began to appear as if this were not so startlingly necessary to maintain her present state.
-- The "Herald," getting up an entertainment for the benefit of its free ice fund, did her the honour to beg her to appear along with celebrities for nothing.
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