appearance
音標(biāo)發(fā)音
- 英式音標(biāo) [?'p??r(?)ns??p??r?ns]
- 美式音標(biāo) [??p?r.?ns]
- 國際音標(biāo) [?'pi?r?ns]
- 英式發(fā)音
- 美式發(fā)音
基本解釋
- n.出現(xiàn)；露面；外貌；外表；出場
詞源解說
- 1400年左右進(jìn)入英語，直接源自古法語的aparance；最初源自拉丁語的apparentem，意為相像，相近物。
詞根記憶
- appear(出現(xiàn)) + ance(表狀態(tài))→出現(xiàn)
用法辨析
- appearance的基本意思是“出現(xiàn)”,可指人的突然出現(xiàn)或出席某宴會(huì),也可指演員等登臺(tái)亮相或在電視、電影中露面,還可指疾病等到了最后階段所顯現(xiàn)出的一些癥狀,常與動(dòng)詞make, put搭配。也可作“外表”“外觀”解,常指經(jīng)常性的總體印象,指人時(shí),可指人的容貌或著裝,既可用單數(shù)形式也可用復(fù)數(shù)形式; 指物時(shí),可指建筑物的整體外觀。
- appearance作“種種跡象”解時(shí),一般用復(fù)數(shù)形式。
- 用appearance指“表面情形”時(shí)，要用其復(fù)數(shù)形式appearances。I believe you are perfectly honest, but appearances are rather against you. 值得注意到是，appearance前不加the。
- to all appearance和to all appearances表相同意思，不過英國人習(xí)慣用前者，而美國人習(xí)慣用后者。To all appearance(s) he is fit for the post.
n. (名詞)
英漢例句
- The sudden appearance of the teacher caused them to run away.
老師突然出現(xiàn),他們就逃跑了。
用作名詞 (n.)
詞組短語
- assume an appearance of 裝出…的樣子
- enter an appearance 到場
- lose the appearance of 失去…的樣子
- make a good appearance 以壯觀瞻
- put on an appearance of 裝出…的樣子
用作名詞 (n.)
動(dòng)詞+～
英英字典
- (BEING PRESENT) an occasion when someone appears in public
- (WAY YOU LOOK) the way a person or thing looks to other people
- When someone makes an appearance at a public event or in a broadcast, they take part in it.
- Someone's or something's appearance is the way that they look.
- The appearance of someone or something in a place is their arrival there, especially when it is unexpected.
- The appearance of something new is its coming into existence or use.
- If something has the appearance of a quality, it seems to have that quality.
- If something is true by all appearances, from all appearances, or to all appearances, it seems from what you observe or know about it that it is true.