Although Hagrid seemed to know where he was going

Everyone seemed to know Hagrid

seem 的用法：

seem可用作連系動詞或不及物動詞，意為“似乎；好像”，其常見用法現(xiàn)歸納如下：

1. “主語+ seem +（to be ）+表語”，表語多為名詞或形容詞，有時是其他的詞或短語，以說明主語的特征或狀態(tài)。例如：
Tom seems （to be ） a very clever boy. 湯姆看上去是一個非常聰明的男孩。
The man over there seems to be a new teacher. 那邊的那個人看上去像一個新老師。
Mr Black seemed to be quite happy. 布萊克先生好像十分快樂。
This small town seems changed a little. 這個小城鎮(zhèn)似乎有點兒變化。

2. “主語+ seem + 不定式”，此句型中的seem與不定式一起構成復合謂語。例如：

Mrs Green doesn't seem （或seems not ） to like the idea. 格林夫人似乎不太喜歡這個主意。
The children seemed to be eating something in the room. 孩子們好像正在房間里吃東西呢。
The young man seemed to have changed much. 這個年輕人看起來變化很大。

3. “It seems + that從句”，其中it 是形式主語，that引導主語從句。例如：

It seems that no one knows what has happened in the park. 似乎沒有人知道在公園里發(fā)生了什么事。
It seems to me that Mr Brown will not come again. 在我看來布朗先生不會再來了。

4. “There + seem to be +名詞”，其中to be 可省略。seem 的單復數(shù)形式要根據(jù)后面作主語的名詞的單復數(shù)形式而定。例如：

There doesn't seem to be much hope of our beating that team. 看來我們戰(zhàn)勝那個隊沒有多大希望。
There seems no need to wait longer. 看來沒有再等的必要了。

cook up 意思是：編造假的理由來掩蓋事實，而這樣做往往是為了欺騙某人，或者為了擺脫自己所處的困境。我們來舉一個例子。這是一個人下了班在酒吧間里跟朋友一起喝酒聊天。他偶然看了一下手表。突然，他想起他該去他太太的辦公室去接她回家。他緊張地說：

例句: Oh, no! It's after seven o'clock and I promised Susan I'd meet her in front of her office right at six. I better cook up a good story or I'll be in big trouble.

這位丈夫說：啊呀，已經(jīng)七點多了。我答應蘇珊六點鐘在她辦公室門口等她的。我得想出一個好一點的理由來解釋為什么遲到一個多小時，否則我可真是麻煩了。