妙語佳句:

原句:Venture further from the mountains and out onto the open plateau,and life doesn't appear to get any easier.

appear:文中意思為“好像”，除此之外還有“出現，出版，顯得”之意。

appear做連接動詞時，常指“事情或事物看其來怎么樣”，同seem相似。

例句:He appears (to be) very angry today.（句中的to be可省略）

She appears to have enough money to live on.

與seem不同的是，seem既可以用來討論客觀事實，也可以用來描述主觀的印象或感覺，而appear只能表達客觀事實。

例句:The baby seems/appears (to be) hungry.（兩者都可用）

She doesn't want to go on studying. It seems a pity.（只能用seem）

get easier:變得更容易

例句:Things will get easier as time goes by.

隨著時間的推移情況會有所改善。

原句:High winds scour the landscape and temperaturescan drop from baking to freezing in moments.

in moments:瞬間

例句:In moments we are covered, lost.

轉眼間，我們便永遠地被埋葬了，湮滅了。

原句:At this height,most people are gasping for breath.

gaspe for:喘

例句:Her unexpected rudeness made me gasp for breath.

她突如其來的粗魯語言使我大吃一驚。

原句:But lack of oxygen hasn't cramped this creature's style.

lack of:缺乏

例句:The flowers are wilting for lack of water.

這些花因缺水而漸漸枯萎

考考你:

這象征著他們對山的熱愛而不管山看起來多么的冷酷無情。

在這個高度下大部分人都要不停地喘氣。

上期答案:

At a mind-numbing 8,848 metres high,Everest is one of the most hostile places for life on Earth.
Hundreds of people have died trying to conquer it.