as though

It sounds as though there is a knock at the door.

来好像有人在敲门。

He drowsed off,but then woke up abruptly,as though someone had called his name.

他打了个盹,但突然又醒了,好像是有人在喊他的名字。

The clerks and ryots, however, seemed duly impressed, and likewise envious, as though deploring their parents' omission to endow them with so splendid a means of appealing to the Zamindar.

然而，在场的执事和农民却对此似乎印深刻，他们似乎还有些嫉妒，仿佛在抱怨他们的父母没有赋予他们这种向地主请愿的卓越口才。