1.表面的;宣称的;假托的seeming or stated to be real or true, when this is perhaps not the case
The ostensible reason for his absence was illness.他假托生病缺勤。
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。
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。
If both sides strickle ostensible after tattoo on, the squeegee the top surface is not a plane.
如果刮后槽两边表面上有花纹,则说明刮板上表面不是一平面。
The ostensible reason for his absence was illness , but everyone knew he'd gone to a football match.
他称病缺席,但谁都知道他去看足球赛了。医生诊断我的病是神经痛。
Ostensible Panels competitor Snap has faced years of criticism for their over-eager pop-ups.
Panels的竞争对手Snap多年来因为操之过急的弹出内容而饱受批评。
Recently there was a rare oil leak in the North Sea, for no ostensible reason.
最近北海发生了罕见的漏油事件,而没有明显的原因。
The same goes for an ostensible liberalisation of rules that require women to have a male "guardian" .
对于女性要有一名男性监护人这一规章的表面上的自由化也是如此。
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。
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。
Very organized in the face of the ostensible forces against him.
非常有组织,在面对当前的表面势力对他不利。
What kind of medical advice was dispensed to all these patients with ostensible stress-induced ulcers? "Relax" ?
对那些所谓的因压力诱发溃疡的病人,医生会给予什么样的医学建议?“放轻松”?
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