appear是什么意思(appearance是什么意思)

1.appear 意為“看起來……”，做系動詞，放在形容詞和名稱前面。特別是在名詞前面，一般用appear to be 結構。

（1）主句+appear(to be)+形容詞 ，如：

He appeared very angry.他看起來很生氣

（2）主語+appear to be +名詞，如：

She appears to be a very religious person 它看起來是一個很虔誠的人

He appears a perfectly normal person.

他看上去完全是個正常的人。

She appeared to be in her late thirties.

看樣子她快四十歲了。

They appeared not to know what was happening.

他們似乎不知道正在發生的事。

There appears to have been a mistake.

看來有一個差錯。

（3）It appears （unlikely） that從句

It appears unlikely that the UN would consider making such a move

看起來聯合國不太可能考慮采取這樣一種行動。

It appears unlikely that interest rates will fall further.

看來利率不大會再降低。

It would appear that this was a major problem.

看來這是個主要問題。

It appears that some missiles have been moved

一些導彈似乎已經被移走了。

2.appear也有“出現，呈現”和“到達”等意思，這時作動詞使用。

主語（+副詞）+appear(+副詞/副詞詞組）

A face suddenly appeared at the window一張臉突然出現在窗戶上。

She did her best to appear more lf-assured than she felt...

她竭力讓自己表現得比實際更自信。

This problem first appeared in the inner cities.

這個問題最初在市區中心出現。

It was too late to prevent the story from appearing in the national newspapers.

要阻止全國性報紙刊登這件事情已為時太晚。

Mary appeared unexpectedly this morning and asked me for some money瑪麗今天早上突然來了，向我借些錢。

A woman appeared at the far end of the street...

一個女人遠遠出現在街的盡頭。

3. There appear(s) to be好像有

There appears to be increasing support for the leadership to take a moreaggressive stance

好像有越來越多的人支持領導層采取更為強勢的立場。

4. appear to加在某些助動詞、be或動詞前，表示“似乎、好像”

The aircraft appears to have crashed near Katmandu

飛機似乎在加德滿都附近墜毀了。

The opposition appear to have chon the path of cooperation rather thanconfrontation

反對派似乎已經選擇了合作而不是對抗的路線。

Many women achievers appear to po a threat to their male colleagues

許多事業有成的女性似乎對她們的男同事構成了一種威脅。

The rebels appear to be making hit-and-run guerrilla style attacks on military targets.

叛亂分子似乎是在對軍事目標實施打了就跑的游擊式攻擊。

I appear to have mislaid my jumper.

我好像忘了把套頭衫放哪兒了。

Under stress the people will appear to be superficial, over-eager andmanipulative.

這些人在壓力下會顯得淺薄無知、操之過急，而且愛擺布人。

5. lt appears to me that...

據我看來, 我覺得

lt appears to me that it’s time to go to school.

我覺得該上學的時間已經到了。

It appears to me that she's right.

(依我)看來她是對的.

6. lt begins to appear that ...

看起來似乎

lt begins to appear that he’s the best student in the class.

看起來似乎他是班上最好的學生。

知識拓展：

appear有關詞組和短語：

appear for sb 代理…出庭（ 沒見過其它意思）

Mr Jones will appear for you in court tomorrow.

瓊斯先生明天做你的律師出庭。

appear in court

出庭

appear on the stage

登臺演出

as it appears

似乎

appear for

替...出庭

bind over to appear

【律】勒令出庭

so it appears（可以單獨使用；也可以接個that從句等）

似乎是如此

So it appears we have to go back. 所以似乎我們只能回去了。

So it appears that she has allowed a very small sample group to skew herconclusions.

所以，她的結論似乎是被一小部分樣本人群帶偏了。

strange as it may appear

雖似奇怪[作插入語]

The rumor is true, strange as it may appear.

這謠言雖然顯得奇怪，卻是真的。

Strange as it may appear, it is true.

盡管看起來有些奇怪，但它是真的。