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ostensibly

英 [ɒ'stensɪblɪ] 美[ɑs'tɛnsəbli]
  • adv. 表面上;外表

英英释意


1. from appearances alone;
"irrigation often produces bumper crops from apparently desert land"
"the child is seemingly healthy but the doctor is concerned"
"had been ostensibly frank as to his purpose while really concealing it"-Thomas Hardy
"on the face of it the problem seems minor"