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ostensibly (adv.)
词根:ostensibly
adv.ostensibly 表面上;外表
Adjective
1. appearing as such but not necessarily so;
"for all his apparent wealth he had no money to pay the rent"
"the committee investigated some apparent discrepancies"
"the ostensible truth of their theories"
"his seeming honesty"
2. represented or appearing as such; pretended;
"His ostensible purpose was charity, his real goal popularity"
1730年,“能够被展示的,可以被展示或看到的,可呈现的”,源自法语 ostensible,源自拉丁语 ostens-, 过去分词词干 ostendere “展示,暴露于视野之中; 伸展,展开; 展览,展示”,来自于 ob “在前面”(见 ob-)和 tendere “伸展”(来自于 PIE 词根 *ten- “伸展”)。意思是“表面上的,公开的,被认为是真实的”,始于1771年。
Ostensible is, literally, that may be or is held out as true, real, actual, or intended, but may or may not be so: thus, a person's ostensible motive for some action is the motive that appears to the observer, and is held out to him as the real motive, which it may or may not be. [Century Dictionary, 1895]
Ostensible 字面上意思是可能或被认为是真实、实际或有意图的,但可能也不是:因此,一个人某个行动的 ostensible 动机是出现在观察者面前的动机,并被认为是真正的动机,但它可能是也可能不是。[世纪词典,1895]
French, from Latin ostensus, past participle of ostendere to show, from obs-, ob- in the way + tendere to stretch — more at ob-, thin
The first known use of ostensible was circa 1771
osteoarthritisnoun
arthritis marked by the breakdown of cartilage and bone of joints
ostentatiousadjective
fond of or showing ostentation
ostentatiousadjective
fond of or showing ostentation
ostentationnoun
unnecessary show to attract attention, admiration, or envy
ostensiblyadverb
to all outward appearances : seemingly
a statement ostensibly true
ostensibleadjective
shown outwardly : apparent
the ostensible purpose of his visit
1 What’s more, the comments shattered the ostensible neutrality of radio stations, which prefer to be perceived as meritocratic spaces, even though playlists are built from a toxic combination of influence, groupthink, money and, occasionally, idiosyncrasy.
2 the ostensible reason for the meeting turned out to be a trick to get him to the surprise party
3 So what we have here is an ostensible introvert and extrovert.
4 There is an ordering intelligence behind this ostensible muddle.
5 We meet Maya, the ostensible protagonist of Ayim’s “The God Child,” as a child of Ghanaian immigrants in Germany.
6 The ostensible purpose of his excursion.
他公开声称的出游目的。
7 Morris Townsend though he was by no means ostensible, was the real occasion of the feast.
尽管没有讲明,莫里斯·汤森德显然是这场宴请的真正目标.
8 For all the enthusiasm for the classic Hollywood style, it’s the genius of directors, not the ostensible genius of the system, that inspires enduring love.
9 Dickinson's poetry, despite its ostensible formal simplicity , is remarkable for its variety, subtlety and richness.
狄金森的诗虽然表面浅显, 但内容多样化, 微妙而又深刻.
10 Its ostensible purpose was to benefit the nonprofit group When We All Vote.
11 The ostensible thesis of “Tesla Nation” is that other Serbs and Serbian-Americans have done great things in the United States, too.
12 The matter is all the more urgent in modern cinema, where the veil of fiction—the opaque wall of narrative—is lifted to reveal the ostensible wizard behind the curtain.
13 His ostensible purpose was charity, his real goal popularity.
他表面的目的是做善事, 实际目标是获得声望.
14 Frank, the mayor of Jersey City, informs Nucky that his ostensible ally, Senator Edge, is a silent partner in a paving company, which makes the promised highway contracts unlikely to arrive.
15 CNN's Jake Tapper pretty well summed up the prevailing sentiment about that ostensible forensic exhibition when he described it as "a hot mess, inside a dumpster fire."
16 It gave the ostensible illegality of the street artists’ work a certain irony, given the grass-roots appeal to nonviolent, cleaner living.
17 An account of a gay man’s birthday party in the West Village, crashed by a straight college buddy, it earned its writer disapprobation with respect to its ostensible display of self-hating homosexuals.
18 The design of its special effects is the ostensible subject of many of the book’s chapters, vignettes in which bodies both human and machine provide the blueprints for mega-budget illusion.
19 At the same time, they can’t exactly denounce their own ostensible leader, at least not without running the risk of alienating his right-wing base.
20 “Set It Up” fully acknowledges the debt with an ostensible laugh line when Charlie says, “I’ve seen the Lindsay Lohan classic enough times to know we are full-on Parent Trapping, hard.”
2 表面上
formal apparent superficial seeming seemingly surface ostensibly outwardly on the outside technical external professed colourable outwards lip-deep front facile quasi skin-deep
4 可公开
5 诡称的
6 表面
ectal surface exterior token outward superficial airy seeming skin-deep Barmecide ectally surfacely top face periphery bosom obverse superficies casual dial external facade apparent cosmetic quasi on the surface of the surface topical front
8 貌似真实的
10 假装
counterfeit sham assumed professed make-believe colorable put-on simulative feignedly mock act guise semblance pretense feint playacting play pose fake pretend fox masquerade dissimulate playact affect assume simulate imitate profess feign dissemble put on an act make a pretext of pretend to play a part artificial would-be masked Professed show profession mockery charade dissimulation mask impersonate under the guise of act a part sail under false colors make a pretense of put on the appearance of make as if false fictitious seeming fictive hokey colourable ACT disguise pretension pretence affectation cut play-act in disguise let on make believe pretended assumptive cover shit assumption simulation puppetry personation come bluff personate make-up hoked-up affected scenic simulated feigned pretending ostensibly professedly shape acting bonnet boogerboo daub wear make on
13 表面上的
formal apparent superficial seeming surface technical external professed colourable lip-deep front facile
14 表面的
ectal surface exterior token outward superficial airy seeming skin-deep Barmecide casual external apparent cosmetic quasi on the surface of the surface topical
15 假装的
counterfeit sham assumed professed make-believe colorable put-on simulative artificial simulate would-be masked Professed pretend false fictitious seeming fictive hokey colourable dissemble feign pretended assumptive hoked-up affected scenic simulated feigned pretending personate
16 声称的
17 外表
technical semblable ostensive look outside surface dress shell garment crust apparel outward showing mantle facade resemblance likeness rind seeming semblance garb externality visage facies exterior superficial idea color image face effect air aspect species appearance external varnish guise similitude exteriority lineament vizard superficies show
18 明显
kenspeck clear obvious visible plain sharp evident explicit sensible marked pointed conspicuous outspoken overt palpable perceptible decided well-marked unsubtle up evidently ostensibly sensibly patently light appear
19 诡称