vi.出现；出版；显得；好像；登场

His book appears on the market. 他的书出版了。

An article about him appeared in the paper. 一篇有关他的文章在报上发表。

She appeared very confident. 她显得很自信。

You appear unhappy. 你看起来好像不高兴。

appear为不及物动词， I have read the article on Japanese economy appeared in yesterday's paper.我在昨天出版的报纸上读了和日本经济相关的文章。应在appeared前加that/which，否则表述不正确。

appear同seem的比较：appear做连接动词时，常指“事情或事物看其来怎么样”，同seem相似。与seem不同的是，seem既可以用来讨论客观事实，也可以用来描述主观的印象或感觉，而appear只能表达客观事实。 He appears (to be) very angry today.（句中的to be可省略）She appears to have enough money to live on. The baby seems/appears (to be) hungry.（两者都可用） She doesn't want to go on studying. It seems a pity.（只能用seem）

当appear指“出现”或“抵达”时，可被副词修饰。 She suddenly appeared in the doorway.她突然间出现在门口。

appear的基本含义有二：一是“出现”“到达”,指出席或在公共场所露面,也指可以看见或变得清晰起来,较少意味着具有确切地具体的背景或出处。引申为“出演”“出版”“面世”。appear作此解时,是不及物动词,其后常有时间、地点等状语。appear的另一个意思是“似乎”“显得”“看起来好像”,含有因视觉误差、观点限制或他人掩饰而得到的印象与事实并不一定相符的味道。appear作此解时,主要用作系动词,也可用作不及物动词。

appear用作系动词,接“to be+ n./adj. ” 或者介词短语、动词不定式或as if/though引导的从句, to be可以省略。当形容词是表语形容词时, to be不可省略。

appear用作系动词的句子中可插入to sb,在强调时可移至句首。

在以动词不定式或that从句作主语时,一般须以it作形式主语,置于句首,而将该动词不定式或that从句置于appear之后。

appear可用于存在句型(There ～s/ ～ed ),相当于不及物动词be。

appear作为表示状态的动词,通常不用于进行体,而须用于一般时态。

appear是表示感觉的系动词,可用于转移否定结构,即句中的否定虽然出现在主句的谓语部分,但否定范围却不在主句谓语动词本身,而是转移到句子末端的宾语、状语或其他成分上。

在叙述某物开始销售的日期或时期的句子中要用引导词there。例如:In the 1960s there appeared a new type of car.60年代出现一种新型汽车。In the same year there appeared the book in a shop.同年这本书开始发行。

appear与不定式连用,有两种否定形式,其意思相同,后者比前者更正式。例如： She doesn't appear to like you.She appears not to like you.她似乎不喜欢你。He did not appear to resent it.(非正,常用)He appeared not to resent it.(正式)看不出来他对这件事不满。