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词典释义:
ostensible
时间: 2024-03-07 21:49:16
雅思GRE
英 [ɒˈstɛnsɪb(ə)l]
美 [ɑˈstɛnsəb(ə)l]

adj. 诡称的;貌似真实的

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双语例句
  • Relations between the two countries seem to have an ostensible calm, but privately they are in conflict.

    两国关系看似表面平静,但私下正在发生冲突。

  • He dismissed the reporters by giving them an ostensible explanation.

    他给出了一个表面上的解释就把记者们打发了。

  • The husband's cheating broke the ostensible harmony of the family.

    丈夫的出轨打破了家庭表面上的和睦。

  • Their ostensible goal was to clean up government corruption, but their real aim was to unseat the government.

    他们表面上的目的是要清除政府腐败 可真正目的却是要颠覆政府

  • The ostensible reason for his absence was illness.

    他假托生病缺勤。

  • The ostensible purpose of these meetings was to gather information on financial strategies.

    这些会议声称旨在收集金融策略方面的信息。

  • The ostensible purpose of his excursion.

    他公开声称的出游目的。

  • The ostensible reason wasn't the real reason.

    表面上的理由并不是真正的理由。

  • Ostensible agency is a special kind of agent system.

    表见代理是一种特殊的代理制度。

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同根词

词根 ostensibly

释义
adj.

stated or appearing to be true, but not necessarily so

诡称的;貌似真实的

  • the real dispute which lay behind the ostensible complaint.

     在表面上抱怨背后的真实争辩。

词源

"mid 18th cent.: from French, from medieval Latin ostensibilis from Latin ostens- ‘stretched out to view', from the verb ostendere, from ob- ‘in view of' + tendere ‘to stretch’."

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