semblance
发音
英 [ˈsembləns]
美 [ˈsɛmbləns]
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- n.
- 外表，外观
- 类似
- 假装
- 副本，拷贝
单词词源
semblance 表象，假象，外观
来自古法语 sembler,看起来，来自（异化自）拉丁语 simulare,模仿，词源同 same,similar.引 申诸相关词义。
双语例句
- 1. The church is fighting a desperate battle to retain a semblance of unity .
- 这个教会正不惜一切的奋斗以保留一个团结的假象。
- 2. A semblance of political co-operation may last only until a second round of local elections on april 24th .
- 政治合作的假象预计只能持续到4月24日的第二轮地方选举。
- 3. Though from the outset , central europeans suffered arbitrary expropriations and arrests , initially the soviet authorities sought to create the semblance of national independence and political pluralism .
- 尽管中欧起初在苏联独断专行的强征和逮捕之下苦不堪言，苏当局本意是试图营造一个国家独立和政治多元的假象。
- 4. On the other hand , it supersedes the one sidedness of the objective world , which is now , on the contrary , estimated as only a mere semblance , a collection of contingencies and shapes at bottom visionary .
- 另一方面，认识过程扬弃了客观世界的片面性，反过来，它又将客观世界仅当作一假象，仅当作一堆偶然的事实、虚幻的形态的聚集。
- 5. Yet even if the power of mr saleh 's state has seldom extended beyond yemen 's main towns , roads and oilfields , it is remarkable that he has maintained even a semblance of control ( see book review ) .
- 然而，即使萨利赫的国家权力极少触及到也门的主要城镇、道路和油田，他已经保持着一种控制的假象（见书评）也是件不同寻常的事情。