ostensible

ostensible什么意思,ostensible翻译

基本解释

adj.: 表面的；宣称的；假托的
网络: 表面上的；假装的；可公开的

权威解释

• 表面的；宣称的；假托的:

  seeming or stated to be real or true, when this is perhaps not the case

英汉解释

• 公开,讲明

• 可公开的;显然的

• 假装的;诡称的

• 表面,假托的

• 外表的,表面上的

单词搭配

• Adj.+n.:

  ostensible reason

同义词

adj.ostensiveapparentprofessedsupposedperceived

反义词

adj.real

例句

• Her ostensible purpose was to borrow some sugar, but she really wanted to see her neighbor"s new furniture.

  她表面上的目的是想借一些糖，但她真的想看看她的邻居的新家具。

• He DID not accept the ostensible explanation, but suspected that there was a nigger in the woodpile.

  他不同意那种表面解释，怀疑其中有不可告人之处。

• The shocking thing is, two years into an ostensible recovery, [UK] workers are actually earning less than at the depth of the recession.

  表面复苏两年来，英国的工人实际比经济危机最严重时挣钱更少，这简直骇人听闻。

• Bill is now the ostensible head of the company, but his father is still the real boss.

  比尔现在只是公司表面上的表面上的老板，他的父亲仍然是真正的老板。

• The ostensible reason was to set a good example, but I knew White was hoping I wouldn"t do it.

  表面的理由是树立一个好榜样，但我知道怀特其实希望我不敢接受测试。

• The ostensible goal is to prevent welfare fraud, but the psychological impact is to turn poverty itself into a kind of crime.

  表面上这是为了防止福利欺诈，但是这让人们从心理上觉得贫穷本身成了一种罪行。

• Tsunami will not occur to any ostensible degree because there is a void being created, where the waters will rush.

  任何明显程度的海啸都不会发生因为有一个空虚被制造了出来，水会流到那里。

• Start, is a outset of doing things, so, understand from its ostensible mean, a second start, is start to do another thing.

  所谓“开始”，就是做一件事的开端，因此，顾名思义，又一个开始，就是开始做另一件事了。

• 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。

• The ostensible reason for his trip to Greece was business, but we thought it was a vacation.

  他去希腊表面的理由是出差，但我们认为那是度假。