seem
要点見える
意味
- (進行形にできない)(…のように)見える,思われる
例文
She seems to be in trouble. Tell her what to do.
彼女は困ったいるようです。どうしたらいいか教えてあげてください。
It seemed that her family had moved to Hokkaido.
彼女の家族は北海道に引っ越していたようだった。
He seems to have been in poor health when young.
彼は若いころ体が弱かったようだ。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English semen (“to seem, befit, be becoming”), from Old Norse sœma (“to conform to, beseem, befit”), from Proto-Germanic *sōmijaną (“to unite, fit”), from Proto-Indo-European *sem- (“one; whole”). Cognate with Scots seme (“to be fitting; beseem”), Danish sømme (“to beseem”), Old Swedish søma, Faroese søma (“to be proper”). Related also to Old Norse sómi (“honour”) ( > archaic Danish somme (“decent comportment”)), Old Norse sœmr (“fitting, seemly”), Old English sēman (“to reconcile, bring an agreement”), Old English sōm (“agreement”).