seem

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To appear; to look outwardly; to be perceived as. copulative
    — She is seeming a bit down these days. Her eyes seem blue. It must have seemed to her she was safe. How'd she seem to you? He seems not to be at home. "It seems like rain". "It seems to me (to be) rather sleety."; "There seem to be a few problems."
    He is so fair, without any limit; his appearance shows well when he sits on the dais.
  2. To befit; to beseem. obsolete
    — And all within were pathes and alleies wide, With footing worne, and leading inward farre: Faire harbour that them seemes; so in they entred arre.

词形变化

seems present,singular,third-person seeming participle,present seemed participle,past seemed past seme alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

衍生词
can't seem meseems misseem seemer seeming seemingly seemless seemlihood seemliness seemly

词源

From Middle English semen (“to seem, befit, be becoming”), from Old Norse sœma (“to conform to, beseem, befit”), from Proto-Germanic *sōmijaną (“to unite, fit”), from Proto-Indo-European *sem- (“one; whole”). Cognate with Scots seme (“to be fitting; beseem”), Danish sømme (“to beseem”), Old Swedish søma, Faroese søma (“to be proper”). Related also to Old Norse sómi (“honour”) ( > archaic Danish somme (“decent comportment”)), Old Norse sœmr (“fitting, seemly”), Old English sēman (“to reconcile, bring an agreement”), Old English sōm (“agreement”).
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