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单词 there seems to be
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there seems to be
5. To appear to exist or to be present. Chiefly in the inversion there seems (followed by the subject); otherwise poetic or rhetorical. Also, in the same sense, there seems to be.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > appearance or aspect > have specific appearance [verb] > seem > seem to exist
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c1400 ( G. Chaucer Treat. Astrolabe (Cambr. Dd.3.53) (1872) ii. §25. 34 Now yif so be þat the semith to long a tarienge..thanne whaite whan the sonne is in any other degree of the zodiak.
c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn Prol. l. 446 So wele they make seme soth, when þey falssest ly.
c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn l. 2775 They make semen (as to a mannys sight) Abominabill wormys.
c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) xxi. 64 He shall make to seme before you a grete rynnynge riuer.
a1674 T. Traherne Person in Poems (1966) 40 Mens Hands then Angels Wings Are truer wealth..For those but seem.
1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. ii. xiv. 232 So far as the inheritance can be evidently traced back, there seems no need of calling in this presumptive proof.
1831 W. Scott Count Robert vi, in Tales of my Landlord 4th Ser. III. 129 ‘I regret,’ said Achilles, ‘that there should have seemed any cause for such precautions.’
1883 Law Times 20 Oct. 409/1 Some fifteen years ago..there seemed a general consensus of opinion that inventors were a nuisance.
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