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。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The modern masters promise very little; they know that metals cannot be transmuted and that the elixir of life 45is a chimera but these philosophers, whose hands seem only made to dabble in dirt, and their eyes to pore over the microscope or crucible, have indeed performed miracles.
-- It was after my return from one of these rambles that my father, calling me aside, thus addressed me, 'I am happy to remark, my dear son, that you have re-sumed your former pleasures and seem to be returning to yourself.
-- 'You, who call Frankenstein your friend, seem to have 274 Frankensteina knowledge of my crimes and his misfortunes.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Everybody's known for years that they'd get married some time, even if he did seem kind of lukewarmabout it."
-- As they picked their way across the red furrows and down the hill to the river bottom in the deepening dusk, Brentyelled to his brother: "Look, Stu!Don't it seem like to you that Scarlett would have asked us to supper?"
-- But it does seem to me that after you broke your knee last year, jumping that same fence " "Well, may I be damned if I'll have me own daughter telling me what I shall jump and not jump," he shouted,giving her cheek another pinch.
-- To acasual observer it would seem that years had passed since the Tarletons had seen the O'Haras, instead of only twodays.
-- They need dams and sires with strength " "Ah-ah-hum," said Gerald, suddenly and guiltily aware that the conversation, a most interesting and entirelyproper one to him, would seem quite otherwise to Ellen.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Joe was evidently made uncomfortable by what he supposed to be my loss of appetite, and took a thoughtful bite out of his slice, which he didn't seem to enjoy.
-- Then both voices would seem to be stifled in a struggle, and then would break out again.
-- "Well," said Joe, meditatively, not, of course, that it could be in anywise necessary to consider about it, but because it was the way at the Jolly Bargemen to seem to consider deeply about everything that was discussed over pipes,--"well--no.
-- And when I said yes (for indeed she did), would seem to enjoy it greedily.
-- Often after dark, when I was pulling the bellows for Joe, and we were singing Old Clem, and when the thought how we used to sing it at Miss Havisham's would seem to show me Estella's face in the fire, with her pretty hair fluttering in the wind and her eyes scorning me,--often at such a time I would look towards those panels of black night in the wall which the wooden windows then were, and would fancy that I saw her just drawing her face away, and would believe that she had come at last.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said he, 'my worthy friend, you seem a good sort of fellow, so I can't help doing you a kind turn.
-- Hans stood looking on for a while, and at last said, 'You must be well off, master grinder!you seem so happy at your work.'
-- People are so kind; they seem really to think I do them a favour in letting them make me rich, and giving me good bargains.'
-- 'That is not done quite as you seem to think,' said the wolf; 'you must wait until the Queen comes,' Soon afterwards, the Queen arrived with some food in her beak, and the lord King came too, and they began to feed their young ones.
-- The bridegroom sat at the top, with the false princess on one side, and the true one on the other; but nobody knew her 77again, for her beauty was quite dazzling to their eyes; and she did not seem at all like the little goose-girl, now that she had her brilliant dress on.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Flimnap, the lord high treasurer, attended there like-wise with his white staff; and I observed he often looked on me with a sour countenance, which I would not seem to re-gard, but ate more than usual, in honour to my dear country, as well as to fill the court with admiration.
-- I one day took the freedom to tell his majesty, 'that the contempt he discovered towards Europe, and the rest of the world, did not seem answerable to those excel-lent qualities of mind that he was master of; that reason did not extend itself with the bulk of the body; on the con-trary, we observed in our country, that the tallest persons were usually the least provided with it; that among other animals, bees and ants had the reputation of more industry, art, and sagacity, than many of the larger kinds; and that, as inconsiderable as he took me to be, I hoped I might live to do his majesty some signal service.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was a child now, of fifteen or sixteen; but at no distant day would seem to become a woman all at once.
-- Mr. Gradgrind did not seem favourably impressed by these cogent remarks.
-- 'You seem to find more to look at in it than ever I could find,' said Tom.
-- They seem to come natural to me.'
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