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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But I fear it will be impossible to remove them," he added, "for they appear to have rotted with the damp, and are sticking to the sides of the bottle."
-- But before starting he confided an important missive to a swifter agent than himself, and a few minutes afterward it flashed along the electric wire to London, to appear next day in the Times and Morning Chronicle in the following words: "For information respecting the fate of the three-mast vessel BRITANNIA, of Glasgow, Captain Grant, apply to Lord Glenarvan, Malcolm Castle, Luss, Dumbartonshire, Scotland."
-- I hope we shall soon become acquainted with each other, and that the company of these ladies will make our voyage in the SCOTIA appear as short as agreeable."
-- "That would be a difficult matter, for an Indian knows nothing about degrees, and the finding of the document would appear to him a mere fantastic story."
-- Who knows whether after Australia some other country may not appear with equal certainty to be the place, and we may have to recommence our search?"
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He was very absent; he would appear to listen-and heard nothing; and he would laugh of a sud-den, evidently with no idea of what he was laughing about.
-- And yet if these good people could only have had a peep into the mind of this excellent fellow who 'knew his place' so well!The fact is that, in spite of his knowledge of the world and his really remarkable abilities, he always liked to appear to be carrying out other people's ideas rather than his own.
-- But I am rather bothered at having disturbed you; that's all I care about. ' 'Look here, prince,' said the general, with a cordial smile, 'if you really are the sort of man you appear to be, it may be a source of great pleasure to us to make your better ac-quaintance; but, you see, I am a very busy man, and have to be perpetually sitting here and signing papers, or off to see his excellency, or to my department, or somewhere; so that though I should be glad to see more of people, nice peo-ple you see, I however, I am sure you are so well brought up that you will see at once, and but how old are you, prince?'
-- I must appear to speak strangely sometimes 芒聙娄' He said the last words nervously.
-- His walk was effective, and he clearly did his best to appear dignified, and to impress people by his manner.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They appear to have jumped to the impossible conclusion that this was the Invisible Man suddenly become visible, and set off at once along the lane in pursuit.
-- The first to appear was the proprietor of the cocoanut shy, a burly man in a blue jersey.
-- He does not appear to have been either very much frightened or very greatly surprised at the moment.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Manifest no distrust, or you may invite the danger you appear to apprehend.'
-- 'You appear to possess the privilege of a casting vote,' re-turned Heyward; 'we are three, while you have consulted no one but yourself.'
-- 'Our decision should be speedy,' said Duncan, gladly availing himself of this change of humor, to press the more important objects of their interview; 'I cannot conceal from you, sir, that the camp will not be much longer tenable; and I am sorry to add, that things appear no better in the fort; more than half the guns are bursted.'
-- From the moment that Munro left his own works to appear in front of his enemy's, his air had been grand, and his step and countenance highly military.
-- 'Your pardon, monsieur,' rejoined the Frenchman, suffer-ing a slight color to appear on his dark cheek.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And when such as had come in contact with Strickland in the past, writers who had known him in London, painters who had met him in the cafes of Montmartre, discovered to their amazement that where they had seen but an unsuccessful artist, like another, authentic genius had rubbed shoulders with them there began to appear in the magazines of France and America a succession of articles, the reminiscences of one, the appreciation of another, which added to Strickland's notoriety, and fed without satisfying the curiosity of the public.
-- During the evening we played innumerable games of piquet, and bravely, not to disappoint my efforts, he tried to appear interested.
-- But it is unfortunate that I can give no description of the arduous steps by which he reached such mastery over his art as he ever acquired; for if I could show him undaunted by failure, by an unceasing effort of courage holding despair at bay, doggedly persistent in the face of self-doubt, which is the artist's bitterest enemy, I might excite some sympathy for a personality which, I am all too conscious, must appear singularly devoid of charm.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But the inevitable catastrophe could only be retarded, and if land did not appear before night, voyagers, car, and balloon must to a certainty vanish beneath the waves.
-- He had one-of those finely- developed heads which appear made to be struck on a medal, piercing eyes, a serious mouth, the physiognomy of a clever man of the military school.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He pulled the rope which he had tied to Pinocchio's leg--pulled and pulled and pulled and, at last, he saw appear on the surface of the water--Can you guess what?
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