| 单词 | it would seem |
| 释义 | > as lemmasit would seem f. it should seem, it would seem: used to express somewhat more of hesitation or uncertainty than is expressed by it seems.The older form, it should seem, is perhaps slightly archaic, and is now chiefly used to express a guarded (or sometimes an ironical) acceptance of statements made by others. It would seem does not appear in our quots. before the 19th cent. (but cf. the cognate use 4d). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > appearance or aspect > have specific appearance [verb (impersonal)] > seem thinkeOE it seemsa1225 meseems?a1425 it seems1442 beseem1470 it should seem1525 it would seem1826 seems to me1888 1525 Bp. J. Clerk in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. I. 310 As for the maters off France, it shold seim that his Holynes rekonythe not gretly howe youe determyn them. 1606 P. Holland in tr. Suetonius Hist. Twelve Caesars Annot. 31* For it should seeme that the Game of Tali heere mentioned was Pleistoboleuda [sic]. 1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations II. v. ii. 449 It should not, however, seem very difficult to distinguish those two parts of the rent from one another. View more context for this quotation 1816 W. Wordsworth Prose Wks. (1876) II. 11 It should seem that the ancients thought in this manner. 1826 R. H. Froude Remains (1838) I. 154 But, with regard to writings, as it would seem, the case is different. 1829 W. Whewell in J. M. Douglas Life & Corr. W. Whewell (1881) 129 All official papers were brought there: and among the rest it would seem these Cologne ones. 1875 A. C. Swinburne Ess. & Stud. Pref. 10 The accident of personal intimacy, it should seem, deprives you of all right to express admiration of what you might allowably have found admirable in a stranger. 1902 J. Gairdner Eng. Church 16th Cent. (1903) iv. 54 From all this it would seem that he could not have been much under fifty when he was compelled to abjure. < as lemmas |
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