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似乎
Seemed
To my parents, writing seemed precarious and not the best idea.
对我的父母来说，写作似乎不稳定，也不是最好的主意。
There seemed to be so much to say, but no words adequate to say it.
似乎有那么多话要说，但没有足够的语言来表达。
Peter, of the three of us, was our prince. He seemed so timeless. He had such elan and style.
我们三个人中，彼得是我们的王子。他似乎是永恒的。他有这样的活力和风格。
I didn't want to get married - I thought it was like a cult! It seemed so conservative and unnatural.
我不想结婚——我觉得那就像邪教!这似乎太保守、太不自然了。
After the horse dance was over, it seemed that I was above the ground and did not touch it when I walked.
马舞结束后，我似乎已经站在了地面上，走路时没有碰到它。
I grew up when people seemed actually to be hurting themselves for their art. Of course, some of it was phony.
在我成长的年代，人们似乎真的在为他们的艺术而伤害自己。当然，有些是假的。
To middle-class parents, the project team may have seemed unfit for children, but it was exactly what I needed.
对于中产阶级的父母来说，这个项目团队似乎不适合孩子，但这正是我所需要的。
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
世界上大多数重要的事情都是由那些在似乎没有任何希望的时候继续努力的人完成的。
I started to work up in my old bedroom, playing, writing songs, and it somehow came to me that I could introduce soul music. Nobody seemed to be doing that.
我开始在我的旧卧室里工作，演奏，写歌，不知怎么的，我想到我可以引入灵魂音乐。似乎没有人这么做。
I had no fear 'cause it seemed everyone in the audience always applauded whatever I did. Course, maybe it was because I always seemed to know everyone in the audience.
我一点也不害怕，因为观众们似乎总是为我所做的一切鼓掌。当然，也许是因为我似乎总是认识观众席上的每一个人。
It seemed to me that I could write commercial fiction. I wasn't sure whether I could, or whether I wanted to write serious fiction at that point. So I said, 'Let me try something else,' and I wrote a mystery - but I didn't know much about it.
在我看来，我能写商业小说。当时我不确定我是否能，或者我是否想写严肃的小说。所以我说，‘让我试试其他的东西’，然后我写了一个谜——但我对它知之甚少。