单词
seem
英 [si?m]
美[sim]
基本信息
- vi. 似乎；像是；装作
- n. (Seem)人名；(英)西姆
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词态变化
第三人称单数:?seems;过去式:?seemed;过去分词:?seemed;现在分词:?seeming;
中文词源
seem 看来，似乎，好像
来自中古英语 semen,使合适，使匹配，使合乎举止，来自 Proto-Germanic*somiz,合适的，标 致的，来自 PIE*sem,一，整体，词源同 same,assemble.引申词义外表，表面，后词义抽象化 为看来，似乎，好像等。原词义见 seemly,得体的，合乎礼仪的。
英文词源
- seem
- seem: [12] Originally, seem meant ‘be suitable’ (a meaning preserved in the derived seemly [13]). It was borrowed from the Old Norse verb soema ‘conform to, honour’. This was derived from the adjective soemr ‘fitting’, a descendant of the prehistoric base *sōm- (to which English same is distantly related). The sense ‘appear to be’ emerged in the early 13th century.
=> same, seemly, soft - seem (v.)
- c. 1200, "to appear to be;" c. 1300, "to be fitting, be appropriate, be suitable," though the more recent sense in English is the etymological one; from Old Norse soema "to honor; to put up with; to conform to (the world, etc.)," verb derived from adjective soemr "fitting," from Proto-Germanic *somi- (cognates: Old English som "agreement, reconciliation," seman "to conciliate," source of Middle English semen "to settle a dispute," literally "to make one;" Old Danish some "to be proper or seemly"), from PIE *som-i-, from root *sem- "one, as one" (see same). Related: Seemed; seeming.
双语例句
- 1. Victorian houses can seem cold with their lofty ceilings and rambling rooms.
- 维多利亚式房屋屋顶高耸，房间布局凌乱，因此可能会显得较为阴冷。
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- 2. I seem to fritter my time away at coffee mornings.
- 我似乎把时间全都浪费在咖啡早茶会上了。
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- 3. He rubbed and rubbed but couldn't seem to get clean.
- 他擦了又擦，可就是擦不干净。
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- 4. The idea of spending two weeks with him may seem heavenly.
- 和他一起度过两周的想法听起来似乎十分美好。
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- 5. T-shirts now seem almost de rigueur in the West End.
- T恤衫现在几乎成了伦敦西区时尚人士的必备之物。
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