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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Don't the words seem to come of themselves, and fill up the blanks?
-- "Does not the name Patagonia seem apparent even to the least clear-sighted individual?"
-- You seem to have quite a monopoly of them."
-- "Well, certainly, it must seem strange to him."
-- "No, my Lord; but the passage does not seem dangerous.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'I seem to have walked right into the thick of a dime nov-el,' said our visitor.
-- 'Well, I seem to have come into an inheritance with a ven-geance,' said he when the long narrative was finished.
-- You don't seem quite to have made up your mind whether it's a case for a policeman or a clergyman.'
-- Mrs. Oldmore, too; I seem to remem-ber the name.
-- 'Why, there's no good my telling you things, for you seem to know as much as I do already,' said he.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Did he seem to be a serious sort of a man, or just a com-mon rowdy fellow?
-- The general, who was really agitated and disturbed, looked at the prince too, but did not seem to expect much from his reply.
-- 'I really don't quite know how to tell you,' replied the prince, 'but it certainly did seem to me that the man was full of passion, and not, perhaps, quite healthy passion.
-- You actually seem to be GLAD to hear of this millionaire fellow's arrivaljust as though you wished for an excuse to get out of the whole thing.
-- Alexandra, Adelaida, look after the prince!He doesn't seem so very ill, does he?
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The Trojans advanced in a dense body, with Hector at their head pressing right on as a rock that comes thunder-ing down the side of some mountain from whose brow the winter torrents have torn it; the foundations of the dull thing have been loosened by floods of rain, and as it bounds headlong on its way it sets the whole forest in an uproar; it swerves neither to right nor left till it reaches level ground, but then for all its fury it can go no further even so eas-ily did Hector for a while seem as though he would career through the tents and ships of the Achaeans till he had reached the sea in his murderous course; but the closely ser-ried battalions stayed him when he reached them, for the sons of the Achaeans thrust at him with swords and spears pointed at both ends, and drove him from them so that he staggered and gave ground; thereon he shouted to the Tro-jans, 'Trojans, Lycians, and Dardanians, fighters in close combat, stand firm: the Achaeans have set themselves as a wall against me, but they will not check me for long; they will give ground before me if the mightiest of the gods, the thundering spouse of Juno, has indeed inspired my onset.'
-- And you seem troubled has your husband the son of Saturn been fright-ening you?'
-- He hovered therefore over Priam's head and said, 'Sir, now that Achilles has spared your life, you seem to have no fear about sleep-ing in the thick of your foes.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- You don't seem to know anything, somehow perfect sap-head.'
-- He couldn't seem to make it out.
-- But I hadn't no luck somehow; I couldn't seem to find the place.
-- Somehow it didn't seem to me that I said it was Mary be-fore, so I didn't look up seemed to me I said it was Sarah; so I felt sort of cornered, and was afeared maybe I was look-ing it, too.
-- Chapter XII T must a been close on to one o'clock when we got below Ithe island at last, and the raft did seem to go mighty slow.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "It doesn't seem so," answered the Fairy, smiling.
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