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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It would seem he was picking something from the floor.
-- For the most part he was quite still during that time; it would seem he sat in the growing darkness smoking in the firelight perhaps dozing.
-- They wanted him to lead the way upstairs to the room, but he didn't seem to be in any hurry.
-- And where he came from, nobody don't seem to know.
-- He was staying, it says, at the 'Coach an' Horses,' and no one don't seem to have been aware of his misfortune, it says, aware of his misfortune, until in an Altercation in the inn, it says, his bandages on his head was torn off.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It may seem a little thing to you, perhaps, but it came like a sudden blow to me.
-- These creatures of mine seemed strange and uncanny to you so soon as you began to observe them; but to me, just after I make them, they seem to be indisput-ably human beings.
-- It may seem a strange contradiction in me, I cannot explain the fact, but now, seeing the creature there in a perfectly animal attitude, with the light gleaming in its eyes and its imperfectly human face distorted with terror, I re-alised again the fact of its humanity.
-- It may seem treacherous, but so I was resolved.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But look here you seem to have a fondness for talking to your betters suppose you go to Walrus Islet and talk to Sea Vitch.
-- 'We all seem to be affected in various ways,' he went on, blowing his nose.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There are many physical as well as moral facts which corroborate this opin-ion, and some few that would seem to weigh against it.
-- But, emulating the patience and self-denial of the practiced na-tive warriors, they learned to overcome every difficulty; and it would seem that, in time, there was no recess of the woods so dark, nor any secret place so lovely, that it might claim exemption from the inroads of those who had pledged their blood to satiate their vengeance, or to uphold the cold and selfish policy of the distant monarchs of Europe.
-- He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha; and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting' It would seem that the stock of the horse of Israel had descended to our own time; would it not, friend?'
-- It would seem that the domestics had been previously instructed; for, instead of penetrating the thicket, they fol-lowed the route of the column; a measure which Heyward stated had been dictated by the sagacity of their guide, in order to diminish the marks of their trail, if, haply, the Ca-nadian savages should be lurking so far in advance of their army.
-- 'Even so,' replied the stranger, making diligent use of his triangular castor, to produce a circulation in the close air of the woods, and leaving his hearers in doubt to which of the young man's questions he responded; when, however, he had cooled his face, and recovered his breath, he continued, 'I hear you are riding to William Henry; as I am journey-ing thitherward myself, I concluded good company would seem consistent to the wishes of both parties.'
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Some seem to have but one vulnerable point, or door of access; while others have a thousand avenues, and may be captured in a thousand different ways.
-- To look upon its grass-grown yard, where the sunbeams seem to sleep so quietly, one would think that there at least the dead might rest in peace.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Chapter IIWhen so much has been written about Charles Strickland, it may seem unnecessary that I should write more.
-- These gallant words which seem so novel to those that speak them were said in accents scarcely changed a hundred times before.
-- Chapter VIIIOn reading over what I have written of the Stricklands, I am conscious that they must seem shadowy.
-- As they stand they are like the figures in an old tapestry; they do not separate themselves from the background, and at a distance seem to lose their pattern, so that you have little but a pleasing piece of colour.
-- "I wasn't quite sure if you expected me," I said, trying to seem unconcerned.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The storm did not seem to have gone farther to the west.
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