seem

英 [si?m] 美[sim]

近義詞appear look

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第三人稱單數:?seems;過去式:?seemed;過去分詞:?seemed;現在分詞:?seeming;

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。

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.

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。

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。

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。