2. 容貌

② disappear v. 消失

③ disappearance n. 消失

④ reappear vi. (再)出現(xiàn)

⑤ reappearance n. (再)出現(xiàn)

▲搭配：

① at first appearance 初看起來

② make one's firrst appearance 首次登場；首次登臺演出

▲ 句型：It appears that…看來……

▲ 辨析：appear；look；seem

該組詞均表示“似乎”，但強調(diào)點不同：seem暗示該判斷

有一定的根據(jù)，往往接近于事實；look著重于通過視覺

得出的印象；appear強調(diào)外表看起來給人的印象而事

實上或?qū)嵸|(zhì)上并非如此。句子結(jié)構(gòu)有同有異：均可跟

形容詞；均可跟介詞like + 名詞或like + 動名詞；均可接

不定式作表語。seem和appear可跟從句。而look則不

能；look和seem可跟as if從句，而appear則不能；

seem和appear可川于It seems / appears that-clause

中，而look不能；seem和appear可用于There seems /

appears to be...中，而look不能。例如：

The noise appeared to be endless. 這喧鬧聲好像永無休止。

There appears to be no student in the classroom. 教室里

似乎沒有一個學生。

The stars look very smaIl only because they are much far-

ther away. 星星看上去很小，僅僅是他們太小的緣故。

It seems as if it is going to rain. You'd better take your

umbrella with you. = It looks like rain. You'd better

take your umbrella with you. 天好像要下雨，你最好帶

把雨傘。

His father seems much better today. 他爸爸今天似乎好

多了。

The baby seems to be sleeping．Don't make so much

noise. 孩子好像在睡覺，別這么吵。

It seems that he is lying. 看樣子他好像是在撒謊。

There seems to be an important meeting tonight. 今晚

好像有個重要會議。

[考例2](2001上海)Do let your mother know aIl the

truth. She appears ____ everything.

　　 A. to tell　　 B. to be told

　　 C. to be telling　　 D. to have been told

[考查目標]appear + 動詞不定式用法。

[答案與解析]D　 根據(jù)前面的分句意思“務(wù)必讓你的媽

媽知道所有的真相”。其原因是似乎別人已經(jīng)告訴她所

有的事情。

1. 出現(xiàn)，露面

3. adjust v. 調(diào)整，使適應(yīng)，使適合 She carefully adjusted her clothes and her hair before going out. 她出門之前仔細地整了整衣服和頭發(fā)。He is unable to adjust themselves to their environment. 他們不能調(diào)整自己以適應(yīng)環(huán)境的變化。Please do not adjust your set, eg as a warning on a TV screen that the controls do not need to be changed. 請勿自行調(diào)節(jié)，如電視機屏幕上的警告語句，意為各項操作裝置無需更改。

[考點2]appear 的用法

▲ 構(gòu)詞：

① appearance n. [c；u]

1. ability n. 能力

What a pity. He has the ability to learn, but he doesn't want to. 很遺憾，他有能力學，然而不想學。Mary is a woman of great ability. 瑪麗是個很有能力的女子。The school cares for children 0f different abilities. 學校關(guān)心不同才能孩子的需要。

10. How would people use it?

　　 ☆單詞聚焦☆

9. What's it made of?

8. How does it work?

7. This is a new way of...

6. This invention can help people...

5. I would try to...