n.出现；露面；外貌；外表；出场
The journal makes its appearance once two months. 这本刊物两个月出版一次。
The appearance of Internet marked the beginning of the age of information. 因特网的出现标志着信息时代的开始。
I don't want to go to the party but I'd better put in an appearance, I suppose. 我不想参加那个聚会，可是我最好还是要露一下面。
We should not judge a person by his appearance. 我们不应该以貌取人。
She is most pleasing in manner and appearance. 她的外貌和举止都非常讨人喜欢。
Something in his appearance riveted our attention. 他外表的某些特徵吸引了我们的注意力。
You should not be misled by a person's appearance. 你不应该被人的外表所欺骗。
At the sight of his appearance on the stage, the hall rang with thunderous applause. 他一出场，礼堂里就掌声雷动。
用appearance指“表面情形”时，要用其复数形式appearances。 I believe you are perfectly honest, but appearances are rather against you.值得注意到是，appearance前不加the。
to all appearance和to all appearances表相同意思，不过英国人习惯用前者，而美国人习惯用后者。 To all appearance(s) he is fit for the post.
n.(名词)appearance的基本意思是“出现”,可指人的突然出现或出席某宴会,也可指演员等登台亮相或在电视、电影中露面,还可指疾病等到了最后阶段所显现出的一些症状,常与动词make, put搭配。也可作“外表”“外观”解,常指经常性的总体印象,指人时,可指人的容貌或着装,既可用单数形式也可用复数形式; 指物时,可指建筑物的整体外观。
appearance作“种种迹象”解时,一般用复数形式。
