英语单词 | seemingly |
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英美音标 | 英 ['siːmɪŋli] 美 ['siːmɪŋli] |
中文释义 | adv.表面上;似乎;看起来 |
英语例句 | (1) Any seemingly viable proposition will be tested by market research. (2) She plays with seemingly effortless skill. (3) He is seemingly to have lost enthusiasm in reading. |
中文例句 | (1) 任何表面上可行的建议都要通过市场研究予以检验。 (2) 她演奏得似乎毫不费力。 (3) 他似乎在阅读上已经失去了热情。 |
vocabulary简明 | Something seemingly true appears to be true. Use the adverb seemingly when you want to say "on the face of it" or "apparently." |
vocabulary扩展 | The word seemingly refers to how things look on the surface — how they seem — and it often suggests there's more to the story. A seemingly broken ankle might actually be sprained, and a seemingly rich man might actually be deeply in debt. While your dog is seemingly well-behaved, he may be eating the garbage when you're not home. Seemingly means about the same as apparently, ostensibly, or surely. |
柯林斯解释 | 1 [ADV 副词]貌似,看似(但可能并非如此) If something is seemingly the case, you mean that it appears to be the case, even though it may not really be so. [ADV adj/adv]
2 [ADV 副词]似乎,好像(是事实) You use seemingly when you want to say that something seems to be true. [ADV with cl/group] [vagueness]
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