1、appear
好像;似乎;看來
There appears to be increasing support for the leadership to take a more aggressive stance.
好像有越來越多的人支持領導層采取更為強勢的立場。
The aircraft appears to have crashed near Katmandu.
飛機似乎在加德滿都附近墜毀了。
出現;顯現
A woman appeared at the far end of the street.
一個女人遠遠出現在街的盡頭。
Last night some of the prisoners appeared on the roof.
昨晚,其中幾個犯人出現在房頂上。
開始存在;產生
small white flowers which appear in early summer.
初夏時綻放的白色小花
Slogans have appeared on walls around the city.
標語已出現在全城周圍的墻上。
2、look up
(在參考書、列表等中)查檢(事實或信息)
I looked your address up in the personnel file.
我在人事檔案里找到了你的地址。
Many people have to look up the meaning of this word in the dictionary.
這個詞的意思很多人都要查字典才知道。
拜訪,探訪,看望(久未見面的人)
I'll try to look him up, ask him a few questions.
我會設法登門拜訪,問他幾個問題。
She looked up some friends of bygone years.
她去看望了一些過去的老朋友。
改善;好轉
Things could be looking up in the computer industry.
計算機行業的情況可能會好轉。