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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What bitter blanks in those black-bordered marbles which cover no ashes!What despair in those immovable inscriptions!What deadly voids and unbidden infidelities in the lines that seem to gnaw upon all Faith, and refuse resurrections to the beings who have placelessly perished without a grave.
-- It may seem ridiculous, but it reminded me of General Washington's head, as seen in the popular busts of him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Mann gave him a thousand embraces, and what Oliver wanted a great deal more, a piece of bread and butter, less he should seem too hungry when he got to the workhouse.
-- Mr. Bumble shook his head with gloomy mystery, and said he wished he might come to good; whereunto Mr. Gamfield replied, that he wished he might come to him; which, although he agreed with the beadle in most matters, would seem to be a wish of a totally opposite description.
-- 'Oh no, no,' returned Oliver quickly; 'but the eyes look so sorrowful; and where I sit, they seem fixed upon me.
-- 'You seem out of humour, Bill.'
-- Such changes appear absurd; but they are not so unnatural as they would seem at first sight.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To be sure that DID seem as if he admired her indeed I rather believe he DID I heard something about it but I hardly know what something about Mr. Robin-son.'
-- 'Upon my word!Well, that is very decided indeed that does seem as if but, however, it may all come to nothing, you know.'
-- 'Why, indeed; he does seem to have had some filial scru-ples on that head, as you will hear.'
-- 'Dear Sir, 'The disagreement subsisting between yourself and my late honoured father always gave me much uneasiness, and since I have had the misfortune to lose him, I have frequent-ly wished to heal the breach; but for some time I was kept back by my own doubts, fearing lest it might seem disre-spectful to his memory for me to be on good terms with anyone with whom it had always pleased him to be at vari-ance. 'There, Mrs.
-- 'In point of composition,' said Mary, 'the letter does not seem defective.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So little do we see before us in the world, and so much reason have we to depend cheerfully upon the great Maker of the world, that He does not leave His creatures so absolutely destitute, but that in the worst circumstances they have always something to be thankful for, and some-times are nearer deliverance than they imagine; nay, are even brought to their deliverance by the means by which they seem to be brought to their destruction.
-- for you seem to be in some great distress.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "My dearest child," said her mother, laughing, "at this rate you must be in continual terror of MY decay; and it must seem to you a miracle that my life has been extended to the advanced age of forty."
-- To me it would seem only a commercial exchange, in which each wished to be benefited at the expense of the other."
-- He had just parted from my sister, had seen her leave him in the greatest affliction; and if he felt obliged, from a fear of offending Mrs. Smith, to resist the temptation of returning here soon, and yet aware that by declining your invitation, by saying that he was going away for some time, he should seem to act an ungenerous, a suspicious part by our family, he might well be embarrassed and disturbed.
-- I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness.
-- I call it a very fine country the hills are steep, the woods seem full of fine timber, and the valley looks comfortable and snug with rich meadows and several neat farm houses scattered here and there.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The entire metropolitan centre possessed a high and mighty air calculated to overawe and abash the common applicant, and to make the gulf between poverty and success seem both wide and deep.
-- He did not seem to recosnise her.
-- To one not inclined to drink, and gifted with a more serious turn of mind, such a bubbling, chattering, glittering chamber must ever seem an anomaly, a strange commentary on nature and life.
-- Yet, here is the fact of the lighted chamber, the dressy, greedy company, the small, self-interested palaver, the disorganized, aimless, wandering mental action which it represents--the love of light and show and finery which, to one outside, under the serene light of the eternal stars, must seem a strange and shiny thing.
-- "Carrie doesn't seem to like her place very well," said Minnie to her husband when the latter came out, paper in hand, to sit in the dining-room a few minutes.
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