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《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Yet it did seem (though not to him, for he saw nothing of it) as if fantastic hope could take as strong a hold as Fact.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "My dinner does not seem to have done me much good," he observed.
-- A long, learned and not uninteresting discussion followed, which ended in this wise: "I do not believe in the dangers and difficulties which you, Henry, seem to multiply; and the only way to learn, is like Arne Saknussemm, to go and see."
-- So still and motionless did we seem without any distant point to fix our eyes on that but for the phosphoric light at the wake of the raft I should have fancied that we were still and motionless.
-- "You seem uneasy, Uncle," said I, when for about the hundredth time he put down his telescope and walked up and down, muttering to himself.
-- However great and mighty the marvels of nature may seem to us, they are always to be explained by physical reasons.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- That the poets and talkers about sex did not seem to have taken sufficiently into account.
-- There's lots of good fish in the sea...maybe...but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you're not mackerel or herring yourself you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea.
-- It made him seem impersonal, almost to idiocy.
-- It may seem to you Clifford doesn't count, but he does.
-- He didn't seem to like my intruding at all.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- You seem to come like my own anger, my own malice, my own whatever it is I don't know what it is.
-- 'I am deeply sensible, mother, that if this thought has never at any time flashed upon you, it must seem cruel and unnatural in me, even in this confidence, to breathe it.
-- But Tip had thanked him, and said he didn't seem to care for his country.
-- 'Not,' she said, with a prouder air, as the misgiving evidently crept upon her that she might seem to be abandoning him, 'not that he has anything to be ashamed of for himself, or that I have anything to be ashamed of for him.
-- He was one of those many wayfarers on the road of life, who seem to be afflicted with supernatural corns, rendering it impossible for them to keep up even with their lame competitors.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In a few minutes it really did seem as if kind spirits had been at work there.
-- Laurie didn't seem to know where to begin, but Jo's eager questions soon set him going, and he told her how he had been at school in Vevay, where the boys never wore hats and had a fleet of boats on the lake, and for holiday fun went on walking trips about Switzerland with their teachers.
-- Laurie smiled but didn't seem shocked, and answered with a shrug.
-- Chapter 4'Oh, dear, how hard it does seem to take up our packs and go on,' sighed Meg the morning after the party, for now the holidays were over, the week of merrymaking did not fit her for going on easily with the task she never liked.
-- But it does seem so nice to have little suppers and bouquets, and go to parties, and drive home, and read and rest, and not work.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- His face was deeply brown and burnt, making his white teeth dazzling by the contrast; while in the deep shadows of his eyes floated some reminiscences that did not seem to give him much joy.
-- But the little devil did not seem to fancy such dry sort of fare at all; he never moved his lips.
-- This young fellow's healthy cheek is like a sun-toasted pear in hue, and would seem to smell almost as musky; he cannot have been three days landed from his Indian voyage.
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