semblance

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n. 外表, 伪装, 假象, 少量

发音

US /ˈsɛmblən(t)s/
US
UK /ˈsɛmblən(t)s/

词形变化

semblances 复数 semblances

别名

semblaunce

教材释义与例句

名词

外貌；假装；类似

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The outward appearance or form of a person or thing.

    可数 不可数
  2. 2.

    The outward appearance or form of a person or thing.

    Followed by of: the outward appearance of a person or thing when regarded as similar to that of another person or thing.

    可数 不可数
  3. 3.

    The outward appearance or form of a person or thing.

    Followed by of: the outward appearance of a person or thing which is different from what the person or thing actually is; also, an outward appearance of a thing which does not actually exist.

    可数 不可数
  4. 4.

    Followed by of: a person or thing that is seen; an apparition, a vision.

    可数 不可数
  5. 5.

    Followed by of: a person or thing that looks similar to another person or thing; a likeness.

    可数 不可数
  6. 6.

    Followed by of: a bare or mere appearance of something.

    可数 不可数
  7. 7.

    A person's non-verbal behaviour or demeanour which shows their feelings, thoughts, etc., or which is faked to hide such true feelings, thoughts, etc.

    可数 不可数
  8. 8.

    In the form make semblance: an act of appearing; an appearance, a manifestation; also, a false appearance, a pretence.

    可数 过时 不可数
  9. 9.

    The quality or state of being similar; likeness, resemblance, similarity.

    古体 不可数 可数
  10. 10.

    The chance of something happening; likelihood, probability.

    废旧 不可数 可数

词汇关系

名词

同义词 5

color colour illusion likeness gloss

上位词 5

picture image appearance icon ikon

下位词 10

shadow disguise portrait phantom camouflage pretext guise pretense apparition pretence

词源

From Middle English semblaunce (“outward appearance, form; appearance without reality; condition or fact of being apparent; symbolic image; facial expression, countenance; conduct, manner; image, likeness; analogy, comparison”), from Anglo-Norman semblaunce and Old French semblance (modern French semblance), from semblant, the present participle of sembler (“to appear; to resemble, seem”), from Late Latin similāre, the present active infinitive of similō, a variant of Latin simulō (“to act or behave as if; to imitate, simulate”), from similis (“like resembling, similar to”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sem- (“one; together”)) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs). By surface analysis, semble + -ance (suffix forming nouns denoting conditions or states).

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