seem是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为v. 好像, 似乎,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《圣诞颂歌》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and ori-gin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time: the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'I hardly seem yet,' returned Charles Darnay, 'to belong to this world again.'
-- 'It will seem nothing to you.
-- Monsieur Defarge sold a very thin wine at the best of times, but it would seem to have been an unusually thin wine that he sold at this time.
-- 'You seem to know this quarter well; that is to say, better than I do?'
-- There is such an -uneasiness in Paris, that we have actually a run of confidence upon us!Our customers over there, seem not to be able to confide their property to us fast enough.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- If only to-morrow on awaking, I could again call all to mind so vividly!I seem in unusually good spirits; my perception of things is clear, I feel as light and cheerful as though I were in heaven; but I know for a certainty, that if to-morrow a dim remembrance of it should swim before my mind, it will then seem nothing but stupid nonsense, as I have often experienced already especially before I enlisted under the banner of the police, for that dispels like a whirlwind all the visions of an unfettered imagination.
-- What lovely summer-days those were!How delightful to be out in the air, near the fresh rose-bushes, that seem as if they would never finish blossoming!
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The whole evening Dolly was, as always, a little mocking in her tone to her husband, while Stepan Arkadyevitch was happy and cheerful, but not so as to seem as though, having been forgiven, he had forgotten his offense.
-- "The most transcendental ideas seem to be within my grasp when he's speaking."
-- It may very well be, I repeat, that my words seem to you utterly unnecessary and out of place; it may be that they are called forth by my mistaken impression.
-- She was one of those creatures which seem only not to speak because the mechanism of their mouth does not allow them to.
-- And, disagreeable as it was to the princess to seem to take the first step in wishing to make the acquaintance of Madame Stahl,who thought fit to give herself airs, she made inquiries about Varenka, and, having ascertained particulars about her tending to prove that there could be no harm though little good in the acquaintance, she herself approached Varenka and made acquaintance with her.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Yes; but we travel so fast that I seem to be journeying in a dream.
-- "But the wretched creature did not seem to be making any resistance," observed Sir Francis.
-- The inanimate victim was borne along by the vigorous arms which supported her, and which she did not seem in the least to burden.
-- The priests looked at each other; they did not seem to understand what was said.
-- IN WHICH FIX DOES NOT SEEM TO UNDERSTAND IN THE LEAST WHAT IS SAID TO HIMThe Rangoon one of the Peninsular and Oriental Company's boats plying in the Chinese and Japanese seas was a screw steamer, built of iron, weighing about seventeen hundred and seventy tons, and with engines of four hundred horse-power.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I do not like potatoes, and the potatoes they do not ever seem to have great affection for me, but I take them and teach them to kill patients.
-- The other kind-- they are very few!--they seem for some reason that is not at all clear to me to wish a liddle bit to become scientists, to work with bugs and make mistakes.
-- It was disconcerting to Martin that she should seem to think that she was a superior person quite as much as himself, but he was even more disconcerted when she bubbled: "At the same time, Martin, one does have to be practical, doesn't one!Think how much more money--no, I mean how much more social position and power for doing good a successful doctor has than one of these scientists that just putter, and don't know what's going on in the world.
-- I shall pray you'll be happy--oh, I'll pray so hard!You young people don't seem to think much of prayer, but if you knew how it helped me--Oh, I'll petition for your sweet happiness!"
-- I don't seem to get along with this military discipline.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Young man,' he went on, raising his head again, 'in your face I seem to read some trouble of mind.
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