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《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- No, it did not seem to him possible that such a man had ended in this vulgar fashion, carried away by a wave, drowned in the floods, a few hundred feet from a shore.
-- Did it not seem as if the settlers were laying the first stone of some edifice?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The place through which he made his way at leisure was one of those receptacles for old and curious things which seem to crouch in odd corners of this town and to hide their musty treasures from the public eye in jealousy and distrust.
-- 'Is it because thou know'st I love thee, and dost not like that I should seem to doubt it by my question?
-- She had barely time to seem to be occupied in some needle-work, when he entered, accompanied by the child; having left Kit downstairs.
-- In point of fact, it would seem that the waiter felt this wholesome truth, for when he returned for the empty plates and dishes and was informed by Mr Swiveller with dignified carelessness that he would call and settle when he should be passing presently, he displayed some perturbation of spirit and muttered a few remarks about 'payment on delivery' and 'no trust,' and other unpleasant subjects, but was fain to content himself with inquiring at what hour it was likely that the gentleman would call, in order that being presently responsible for the beef, greens, and sundries, he might take to be in the way at the time.
-- 'You seem to make yourself at home here,' said Dick, who was unacquainted with Mr Quilp's authority.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "The court gave its decision in accordance with your own finding," answered the justiciary, moving toward the door, "although the answers did not seem to suit the case."
-- But this morning it did not seem to him so easy as it had yesterday.
-- "You seem tired," said Nekhludoff.
-- "But these masons don't seem to be guilty of any offense."
-- Here they write me----" "You seem to be the funnel into which all the prison complaints are poured.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The Time Traveller did not seem to hear.
-- I might seem some old-world savage animal, only the more dreadful and disgusting for our common likeness a foul creature to be incontinently slain.
-- The eyes were large and mild; and this may seem egotism on my part I fancied even that there was a certain lack of the interest I might have expected in them.
-- It may seem strange, perhaps, that I had not noticed this before.
-- No doubt it will seem grotesque enough to you and wildly incredible! and yet even now there are existing circumstances to point that way.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Just then a Fawn came wandering by: it looked at Alice with its large gentle eyes, but didn't seem at all frightened.
-- But this did not seem likely to happen.
-- now,' she said to herself: 'we seem to have got beyond that, somehow!'
-- 'And it certainly did seem a little provoking ('almost as if it happened on purpose,' she thought) that, though she managed to pick plenty of beautiful rushes as the boat glided by, there was always a more lovely one that she couldn't reach.
-- 'You seem very clever at explaining words, Sir,' said Alice.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "You seem to have a lot to say," remarked Silver, spitting far into the air.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Indeed I declare (though it may seem improbable) if I sought to destroy all hope if I wished to despair, I could not.
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