【appear音标】 英[əˈpɪə(r)] 美[əˈpɪr]
【单词释义】 appear是什么意思：
vi.出现，显现；出庭，出场；演出；发表；露面
[单词分级] 中考英语词汇
[第三人称单数] appears
[单词现在分词] appearing
[单词过去式] appeared
[单词过去分词] appeared
[反义词] disappear 消失
【appear形近词/近似词】
shear vt.剪羊毛；剪（头发）；切断 n.大剪刀；剪切
spear n.矛；枪 vt.用矛刺；用尖物刺穿
linear adj.直线的，线形的；线状的；长度的
swear v.发誓；诅咒；咒骂 n.发誓，宣誓；咒骂；诅咒
clear adj.清楚的，明白的；清澈的 v.清除
nuclear adj.原子核的，原子能的
【近义词解析】
◇ 出现
appear (v. 出现，亮相)：强调进入视野为人所见，也指公开露面为公众所看见。
arise (v. 出现)：多指问题、困境等出现。
emerge ([四级]v. 出现，显露)：指从某个掩蔽处出现或摆脱遮挡物而被看见，强调缓缓出现的过程，常后接介词 from。
loom ([六级/考研]v. 隐约出现)：尤指轮廓不清、令人惊恐地隐现。
【单词例句】
◇ All of a sudden the room became bright and a fairy godmother appeared. "Pretty Cinderella why are you crying?" "I want to go to the ball too. But, there's so much to do and I have nothing to wear."
突然，房间变得明亮起来，仙女教母出现了。“漂亮的灰姑娘，你为什么要哭呢?”“我想去参加舞会。但是，我还有很多活儿要做，而且我没有晚礼服。
---- Cinderella
◇ One evening, the sun was just setting in with true splendor when a flock of beautiful large birds appeared out of the bushes. The duckling had never seen anything so beautiful.
一天晚上，当太阳正在美丽的霞光中落下去的时候，有一群漂亮的大鸟从灌木林里飞出来，小鸭从来没有看到过这样美丽的东西。
---- The Ugly Duckling
◇ And the matches glowed with a light that was brighter than the noon-day, and her grandmother had never appeared so large or so beautiful.
这束火柴发出强烈的光芒，照得比白天还要亮。祖母从来没有象现在这样显得这么高大、这么美丽。
◇ He glanced, with a very critical eye, at all the flower-beds, and found that the flowers were seated quietly and demurely on their stalks, just as maidens should sit before they are engaged; but there was a great number of them, and it appeared as if his search would become very wearisome.
因此他就把她们都看了一遍。每朵花都是安静地、端庄地坐在梗子上，正如一个姑娘在没有订婚时那样坐着。可是她们的数目非常多，选择很不容易。
---- The Butterfly
◇ Suddenly, an awesome Antarctic seal with sharp teeth appeared opposite him.
突然，一只长着尖利牙齿、使人畏惧的南极海豹出现在他对面。
---- Mark and a Seal
◇ The ash and lava fountains shooting highly in the sky varied from 50 to 100 meters in height. It was absolutely fantastic! I even noticed a rainbow appear in the fog caused by a heat wave.
喷射到天空中的火山灰和岩浆喷泉从50米到100米不等，这一情景绝对地奇异，我甚至还注意到一条彩虹出现在热浪造成的雾里。
---- A Volcano Eruption
◇ "Does not the stuff appear as beautiful to you, as it did to my lord the minister?" asked the impostors of the Emperor's second ambassador; at the same time making the same gestures as before, and talking of the design and colors which were not there.
“您看这段布美不美？”两个骗子问。他们指着一些美丽的花纹，并且作了一些解释。事实上什么花纹也没有。
◇ While university appears to be the older of the two terms, dating as far back as the 13th century, schools and students in North America have embraced college to describe most places of higher learning.
尽管university这个词汇在这两者中历史更悠久，早在13世纪就产生了，但北美的学校和学生却主要用college来指代大多数高校。
---- What's the difference between a college and a university?
◇ But her hearing problems remained, and she soon noticed blood appearing on the cotton swabs after she cleaned her ears.
但她的听力问题依然存在。不久后她发现，清洁耳朵后，棉签上出现血迹。
---- Never Cleaning Ears With Cotton Swabs
◇ In case you were curious, most people's favorite color appears to be green or blue, although there was a lot of variety in the results.
不妨告诉你，即使人各有别，人各有好，但大多数人最喜欢的颜色还是绿色或蓝色。