ostensible

英 [ɒˈstensəbl]

美 [ɑːˈstensəbl]

adj.  表面的; 宣称的; 假托的

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Collins.1 / BNC.22270 / COCA.21306

牛津词典

adj.

• 表面的；宣称的；假托的
  seeming or stated to be real or true, when this is perhaps not the case
  1. The ostensible reason for his absence was illness.
     他假托生病缺勤。

柯林斯词典

• ADJ 表面上的；貌似真实的；宣称的
  Ostensibleis used to describe something that seems to be true or is officially stated to be true, but about which you or other people have doubts.
  1. The ostensible purpose of these meetings was to gather information on financial strategies.
     这些会议声称旨在收集有关金融策略的信息。

英英释义

adj

• represented or appearing as such
  1. His ostensible purpose was charity, his real goal popularity
  Synonym:ostensive
• appearing as such but not necessarily so
  1. for all his apparent wealth he had no money to pay the rent
  2. the committee investigated some apparent discrepancies
  3. the ostensible truth of their theories
  4. his seeming honesty
  Synonym:apparent(a)seeming(a)

双语例句

• In pursuit of safeguards designed principally to protect the city of London, the prime minister has vetoed a treaty whose ostensible purpose is to secure a rescue of the eurozone.
  为寻求以保护伦敦金融城为主要目的的保障措施，卡梅伦否决了一项以确保欧元区纾困行动为公开目的的条约。
• The ostensible purpose of these meetings was to gather information on financial strategies.
  这些会议声称旨在收集有关金融策略的信息。
• The ostensible purpose of his excursion.
  他公开声称的出游目的。
• There was no ostensible explanation for what he had done.
  对他所做事情的解释是真实的。
• The ostensible reason for his tardiness was illness, as he claimed, but in fact he was plain lazy.
  表面上他的迟到是因为他所声称的生病，其实是因为他懒散不堪。
• Provided the acts or omissions are within the ostensible authority of that person.
  但些作或不作在名人士的表面力之。
• The ostensible opposition between translatability and intranslatahihy overshadows the focus on different aspects of the language system.
  不可译性与可译性之间表面的对立所遮蔽的是二者对语言不同层面的关注。
• An ostensible tightening policy and talk of price controls addresses this.
  表面上的货币紧缩政策和有关价格管控的讲话用于解决这个问题。
• Other countries, some of them equally remote in space from the ostensible setting of the poem, have reacted in similar ways.
  另一些国家，其中有的在空间上与诗中假托的背景同样遥远，人们对此诗也作出了类似的反应。
• The South China Sea events demonstrate that, in a fight, China cannot rely on perceptions of its ostensible place in the new age to smooth its way out of potential confrontation.
  南海事件表明，在争端中，中国无法依靠在新世纪取得的表面上的成就，让潜在冲突从自己的道路上消失。