seem
英 [si?m]
美[sim]
- vi. 似乎；像是；裝作
- n. (Seem)人名；(英)西姆
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詞態變化
第三人稱單數:?seems;過去式:?seemed;過去分詞:?seemed;現在分詞:?seeming;
中文詞源
seem 看來，似乎，好像
來自中古英語 semen,使合適，使匹配，使合乎舉止，來自 Proto-Germanic*somiz,合適的，標 致的，來自 PIE*sem,一，整體，詞源同 same,assemble.引申詞義外表，表面，后詞義抽象化 為看來，似乎，好像等。原詞義見 seemly,得體的，合乎禮儀的。
英文詞源
- 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.
雙語例句
- 1. Victorian houses can seem cold with their lofty ceilings and rambling rooms.
- 維多利亞式房屋屋頂高聳，房間布局凌亂，因此可能會顯得較為陰冷。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. I seem to fritter my time away at coffee mornings.
- 我似乎把時間全都浪費在咖啡早茶會上了。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. He rubbed and rubbed but couldn't seem to get clean.
- 他擦了又擦，可就是擦不干凈。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. The idea of spending two weeks with him may seem heavenly.
- 和他一起度過兩周的想法聽起來似乎十分美好。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. T-shirts now seem almost de rigueur in the West End.
- T恤衫現在幾乎成了倫敦西區時尚人士的必備之物。
來自柯林斯例句