ostensible

英 [ɒˈstensəbl]

美 [ɑːˈstensəbl]

adj.  表面的; 宣称的; 假托的

IELTSGRE经济

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

• The ostensible excuse that it is unable to do so looks less tenable now it has some military successes against the Taliban.
  既然已经取得了一些军事胜利，那么表面上借口无法给予援助如今看来更加不成立。
• The ostensible reason for his trip to Greece was business, but we thought it was a vacation.
  他去希腊外貌的原因是出差，但我们以为那是假期度假。
• 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 ostensible reason for the army's presence was to keep the peace.
  派驻军队表面上是为了维持和平。
• China's has had an ostensible degree of economic development in recent years.
  中国近年来的经济发展程度是有目共睹的。
• Co-relations between Ostensible Invitation Strategies and Social Distance in Chinese
  汉语中礼节性邀请策略与社会距离的关联性研究
• 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 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。
• Ostensible friendship scurries away out of the window as poverty sneaks into your door.
  当贫穷悄悄进入家门时，虚假的友情就从窗口急忙溜走。
• But first the young Toodles, victims of a pious fraud, were deluded into repairing in a body to a chandler's shop in the neighbourhood, for the ostensible purpose of spending a penny;
  但是首先是把年轻的图德尔们（他们是一个意向善良的骗局的牺牲品）哄骗到一个邻近的零售店里去，表面上的理由是让他们把一个便士在那里花掉。