ostensible

/ɒs'tensibl/

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📖 中文释义

  1. a. 表面的, 假装的, 看得出的
  2. [经] 表面的, 诡称的

💬 双语例句

  1. The ANC’s promise of a “better life for all” after the end of apartheid was the economic equivalent of an ostensible easing of the traffic jam. Eventually, South Africans lost faith in the repeated promise that more opportunities were coming.

    非国大承诺在种族隔离结束后所做出的“让所有人实现更好的生活”的承诺相当于假装交通拥堵即将疏解。 最终南非人听腻了那些所谓更多机会即将到来的一再承诺。 祖马的腐败行政和蹩脚经济管理只会加重公众的这种幻灭感。

  2. In 2003, the US Department of Agriculture announced onerous new rules for testing crops engineered to produce pharmaceuticals. The ostensible objective of the regulation is to avoid contaminating food supplies with drugs, especially when edible crops are used to produce them.

    就连生物制药作物的田间试验也大有问题。 2003年,美国农业部发布了关于以制药目的开发的作物的繁琐测试新规。 从表面上看,这一规则的目标是避免食品供应受到药品污染,特别是在用适用作物生产它们的情况下。 但食品业的担忧 — — 生物制药作物污染它们的产品 — — 有过度之嫌。 无论如何,风险可以用多种方法降低,最显而易见的便是使用烟草等非粮食作物。

  3. Like these countries, others in the Middle East must not allow themselves to be lulled into complacency by the ostensible fall of ISIS as a territorial entity. Ultimately, the only way to break the cycle of terror and violence in the Arab world is to resolve the conflicts within Islam.

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🔗 常用搭配

ostensible easingostensible fallostensible objectiveostensible rationalepharmaceuticals the ostensible
📘 English Definition(英文释义)
  1. s. represented or appearing as such; pretended