1 to seem -- 看來好像;似乎
[ after so ] "I think we're late." "So it appears." 「我想我們遲到了。」「看來是的。」
"Has he left?" "It appears not/so." 「他走了嗎?」「好像沒有/是的。」
I know how it must appear, but it's not really as bad as it looks. 我知道看起來會是個甚麼樣子,但實際上也並不像看上去的那麼糟糕。
Everything was not as it appeared - secret deals had been done. 一切並非看上去的那樣——實際上有暗箱交易。
[ + adv/prep ] It appears as if/as though I was wrong. 好像我錯了似的。
formal It would appear (that) (= it seems that) nobody on board the aircraft actually had a licence to fly it. 事實上好像飛機上的所有人都沒有飛行執照。
It appears to me (that) (= I think that) we need to make some changes. 在我看來,我們要作些變動。
[ + (that) ] It appears (that) she left the party alone. 好像她獨自離開了聚會。
There appears to be some mistake. 好像出了甚麼錯誤。
[ + to infinitive ] She appears to actually like the man, which I find incredible. 她好像真的很喜歡那個男的,這讓我覺得難以置信。
Things aren't always what they appear to be. 事情並不總像表面看上去的那樣。
To people who don't know him he probably appears (to be) rather unfriendly. 在不瞭解他的人看來,他可能很不友善。
You've got to appear (to be) calm in an interview even if you're terrified underneath. 在面試時,即使內心很怕,也要顯出很鎮定的樣子。
2 to perform publicly in a play, film, or show -- 登臺;演出;表演
She will be appearing in the latest adaptation of "Bleak House". 她將在《荒涼山莊》最新的改編版本中出演角色。。
4 to arrive -- 到達
If she hasn't appeared by ten o'clock I'm going without her. 她要是十點鐘還到不了,我就自己去了。
It appears that endogenous and/or exogenous serotonin in preimplantation embryos could be involved in complex autocrine/paracrine regulations of embryo development and embryo-maternal interactions.
This can make study findings appear redundant as the health service rushes on to experiment with the next new initiative.
But farm size does not appear to explain differences in yields and net returns when the technology is adopted.
Continuing treatment appears to have a protective effect against relapse.
In the remainder of cases, the division was purely histological, as the physiology appeared uniform in the factors we tested.
Thus, the dissipation of volume appears for purely topological reasons.
Purely indefinite readings appear to be more exceptional, yet in some contexts they provide a plausible interpretation of a given gerund construction.
Instead, they appeared on occasion to recompute the phonetic elements, producing a new erroneous version.