appearance
音标发音
- 英式音标 [ə'pɪər(ə)nsəˈpɪərəns]
- 美式音标 [əˈpɪr.əns]
- 国际音标 [ə'piərəns]
- 英式发音
- 美式发音
基本解释
- n.出现；露面；外貌；外表；出场
词源解说
- 1400年左右进入英语，直接源自古法语的aparance；最初源自拉丁语的apparentem，意为相像，相近物。
词根记忆
- appear(出现) + ance(表状态)→出现
用法辨析
- appearance的基本意思是“出现”,可指人的突然出现或出席某宴会,也可指演员等登台亮相或在电视、电影中露面,还可指疾病等到了最后阶段所显现出的一些症状,常与动词make, put搭配。也可作“外表”“外观”解,常指经常性的总体印象,指人时,可指人的容貌或着装,既可用单数形式也可用复数形式; 指物时,可指建筑物的整体外观。
- appearance作“种种迹象”解时,一般用复数形式。
- 用appearance指“表面情形”时，要用其复数形式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，不过英国人习惯用前者，而美国人习惯用后者。To all appearance(s) he is fit for the post.
n. (名词)
英汉例句
- The sudden appearance of the teacher caused them to run away.
老师突然出现,他们就逃跑了。
用作名词 (n.)
词组短语
- assume an appearance of 装出…的样子
- enter an appearance 到场
- lose the appearance of 失去…的样子
- make a good appearance 以壮观瞻
- put on an appearance of 装出…的样子
用作名词 (n.)
动词+～
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.