| 单词 | it looks as if |
| 释义 | > as lemmasit looks (or things look) as if (b) With indefinite subject and following clause, as it looks (or things look) as if, etc.: it appears as though, seems likely that (something is the case). ΚΠ 1655 Bp. J. Taylor Vnum Necessarium Ep. Ded. A5 It looks as if men had no designe in the world, but to be suffered to die quietly. 1700 T. Brown Amusem. Serious & Comical ix. 91 It looks as if Physicians learnt their Gibberish for no other purpose, than to embroil what they do not understand. 1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 11 It looks to me as if I were in a great crisis. View more context for this quotation 1830 S. E. Dwight Life President Edwards xxvii. 523 It looked as though the great struggle was over. 1892 St. Nicholas Mag. 14 538/1 It looked as if there was going to be a free fight. 1927 Rattle of Theta Chi Jan. 66/2 With the coming of track and basketball next quarter things look as if we would have a new number a little nearer the top. 1955 E. Hillary High Adventure vi. 102 Now it looked as though they might have done it. 2004 Daily Tel. 1 Apr. 28/5 After five years in the job, it looked as if he would lose out on another key promotion. < as lemmas |
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