Seeming

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Seem

(a.) Having a semblance, whether with or without reality; apparent; specious; befitting; as, seeming friendship; seeming truth.

(n.) Appearance; show; semblance; fair appearance; speciousness.

(n.) Apprehension; judgment.

艾迪整理

• At these latter words the girl shivered again, and for a moment paused in her rowing, seeming to turn deadly faint. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• She went on directing her conversation to the past, and seeming to recall its incidents, scenes, and personageswith singular vividness. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Nor trust the seeming lifeless snake, Beware! 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• Otherwise, his seeming attention, his docility, his memorizings and reproductions, will partake of intellectual servility. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• He looked at them slightly, without seeming to know who they were, and merely nodded to Mrs. Jennings from the other side of the room. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• To you, perhaps, observed Worcester, trying to laugh, from a fear of seeming ridiculous. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• He looked up and saw it high and tiny and silver in the sun, seeming hardly to move in the high sky. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• The sense of walls, dry, thin, flimsy-seeming walls, and a flimsy flooring, pale with its artificial black edges, was neutralising to the mind. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Thus the Bosom; accomplished in the art of seeming to make things of small account, and really enhancing them in the process. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Henry Crawford, who meanwhile had taken up the play, and with seeming carelessness was turning over the first act, soon settled the business. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• The seeming antisocial philosophy was a somewhat transparent mask for an impetus toward a wider and freer society--toward cosmopolitanism. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Few have been able to withstand the seeming evidence of this argument; and yet nothing in the world is more easy than to refute it. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• He came back, had had his hair cut, and laughed at himself with a very good grace, but without seeming really at all ashamed of what he had done. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• Among the many wild changes observable on familiar things which made this wild ride unreal, not the least was the seeming rarity of sleep. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• You hear how pitilessly many ladies of seeming rank and wealth are excluded from this society. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.

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