seem
seem 英 [si:m] 美 [sim]
vi. 似乎；看起来
进行时:seeming 过去式:seemed 过去分词:seemed 第三人称单数:seems
- Seem means "to give a certain impression," usually by physical appearance like your messy hair and wrinkled clothing that made it seem like you just rolled out of bed.
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- vi. 似乎；看起来
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1. You seem happy.
你好像挺高兴。
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2. He seems a nice man.
他看来是个好人。
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3. It seemed like a good idea at the time.
当时这主意好像不错。
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4. They seem to know what they're doing.
看来，他们知道自己在干什么。
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5. I seem to have left my book at home.
我大概是把书忘在家里了。
- 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 *somiz (source also of 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 *somi-, suffixed form of root *sem- (1) "one; as one, together with." Related: Seemed; seeming.
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