正面 | 166.seem 英 [siːm]美 [sim] ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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背面 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 释义: 1. alt- => ald => old.2. => grown tall. => grown old, grown up, adult.vi. 似乎;像是;装作n. (Seem)人名;(英)西姆 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。 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。 seemseem: [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, softseem (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." |
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