The colony seemed about to fail from the start.

一开始的时候殖民地的情况非常糟糕。

VIC seems about to climb out of the pool.

维克似乎要爬出水池了。

He desisted only when his partially severed neck seemed about to give way completely.

直到那颗脖子被割裂了一部分的脑袋差点掉下来，他才停止了考虑。

He seemed about to speak, and then shook his head.

他似乎想要说话，然后又摇摇头。

Once or twice she seemed about to cry and left the room quickly to make more tea.

有那么一两次她似乎要哭出来了，然后就迅速离开房间去再泡些茶。

He seemed about to speak, but checked himself.

他似乎要说话， 但制止了自己。

Nathan seemed about to say something, then changed his mind.

内森似乎要说什么，然后改变了主意。

The ladies rose; they seemed about to withdraw to the parlour.

女士们站了起来；他们似乎正要退回客厅。

Now, wait just a minute, " he interposed, as she seemed about to speak. "

现在，等一下，” 他插话说，她似乎要说话了。

Ferdinand's own ship, the Trinidad, seemed about to go down.

费迪南德自己的船特立尼达号似乎就要沉没了。

Doctor Copeland seemed about to speak, and then he wet his lips and was still silent.

科普兰医生似乎要说话，然后他舔了舔嘴唇，仍然没有说话。

One of those charged silences which seem about to split apart with a peal of thunder.

那些带电的沉默中的一种， 似乎即将被一声雷鸣分开。

Every instant it seemed about to vanish and the dense blackness to come rolling in palpably upon me.

每时每刻，它似乎都会消失， 浓密的黑暗明显地向我袭来。

The statue weighs more than 20 tons. Each man is almost 10 meters tall. The men seem about to move.

雕像重达20多吨。 每个人都差不多有 10 米高。 男人们似乎要动了。

[monologue] When I got back. When mother's mind was clear. There was no cocaine. so her schizophrenic seemed about to working.

我回来了，我的母亲精神愉悦，没有毒品，精神分裂也没有发作。

She stopped, clutching the banisters, her heart hammering so hard from anger, insult and exertion that it seemed about to burst through her basque.

她停下来，抓住栏杆，由于愤怒、羞辱和紧张，那颗急速蹦跳的心似乎要从胸口里跳出来了。

There was no cocaine, so her schizophrenic seemed about to working, and we go to the cafe, and sit, and talk, and eat hamburgers.

没有毒品，所以她也不再精神分裂，我们去咖啡馆，坐下聊聊，吃汉堡。

Pressed us to her with the serious way she read, to shove us away at just the moment, like dimwits, we seemed about to understand.

她对我们灌输一大堆编造出来的事物以及我们不需要掌握的知识。她严肃地强迫我们听她读书，把我们两人看成傻瓜一样，刚有点似懂非懂的时候又把我们挥之而去。

Adams became pitiably embarrassed. He stammered, coughed, stammered again, wrinkling his face so deeply he seemed about to weep; but finally he contrived to utter an apologetic laugh.

亚当斯变得尴尬得可怜。他结结巴巴，咳嗽，又结结巴巴，脸上的皱纹很深，似乎快要哭出来了。但最后他还是发出了歉意的笑声。

He was about to raise his rifle and put a bullet through the hideous creature that seemed about to leap upon her when he heard the girl speak.

当他听到女孩说话时， 他正要举起他的步枪， 并向那个似乎要扑向她的可怕生物开枪。