patently

adv.

1. 毫无疑问；显然
   without doubt
   1. Her explanation was patently ridiculous.
      她的解释显然是荒唐可笑的。
   2. It was patently obvious that she was lying.
      她显然是在撒谎。

The pronunciation /'pætənt/ is also used for meanings 1 and 2 in British English. 英国英语中义项1和2亦读作/'pætənt/。


1. N-COUNT 专利权
   A patent is an official right to be the only person or company allowed to make or sell a new product for a certain period of time.
   1. P&G applied for a patent on its cookies...
      宝洁公司为它的饼干申请专利权。
   2. He held a number of patents for his many innovations...
      他拥有多项发明的专利权。
   3. It sued Centrocorp for patent infringement.
      它诉Centrocorp公司侵犯专利权。
2. VERB 得到…的专利权
   If you patent something, you obtain a patent for it.
   1. He patented the idea that the atom could be split...
      他获得了“原子可以再分”这一概念的专利权。
   2. The invention has been patented by the university.
      那项发明已被那所大学申请了专利。
   3. ...a patented machine called the VCR II.
      名为VCR II的专利机器
3. ADJ-GRADED （尤指坏事物）明显的，显而易见的
   You use patent to describe something, especially something bad, in order to indicate in an emphatic way that you think its nature or existence is clear and obvious.
   1. This was patent nonsense.
      这明显是胡说八道。
   2. ...a patent lie.
      赤裸裸的谎言

1. Putting the Boxster up against its big brother for this drive may seem patently unfair, except that its mid-engine layout makes it sportier and many say more fun to drive.
   在我设计的这次试驾中，让博科斯特与它的大哥抗衡显然不太公平，但博科斯特的中置引擎构造使它更富运动感，而且很多人表示，这让它更富驾驶乐趣。
2. Senator Obama called Ferraro's comments "patently absurd" and "divisive." He spoke to ABC News'morning television show.
   奥巴马在美国广播公司早间新闻节目上说，费拉罗的评论非常荒唐，而且具有分裂性。
3. While NoSQL datastores are particularly suited to storing big data ( think Google's Bigtable), NoSQL is a patently non-relational approach.
   因为NoSQL数据商店尤其适合存储大型数据（如Google的Bigtable），显然NoSQL是一种非关系数据库方法。
4. Whatever approach you take, there's really only one patently wrong one: the big bucket approach, where you throw everything into one directory.
   不管使用什么方法，实际上只有一个方法是明显错误的：大桶方法，即将一切抛到一个目录中。
5. Though Dr Warren patently sees his site, which claims to have been responsible for 600,000 marriages, as a cut above those facilitating mere hookups.
   然而，沃伦博士显然认为自己的网站优于那些只是安排约会的网站。该网站声称促成了60万桩婚姻。
6. The persistent and unilateral action taken by the White House to slap 'sanctions' against the DPRK patently proves that it is still not away from inveterate repugnancy and hostility towards the DPRK, it said on Sunday.
   美国白宫为‘制裁’朝鲜所持续采取的单方面行动，显然证明美国仍然没有消除对朝鲜根深蒂固的憎恶和敌意。
7. For such a private man it was patently painful to have to testify about the intimacies of their relationship.
   对这样一个退隐的人来说，出庭阐述两人的婚姻关系显然非常痛苦。
8. The lesson is not that AIG was badly treated it patently was not but that others gain enormous, usually invisible, benefits.
   问题不在于aig遭受了糟糕的待遇事实显然相反而在于其他人获得了巨大的、通常是隐性的利益。
9. And for derivatives, historic cost accounting is patently wrong.
   并且，就衍生品而言，采用历史成本会计显然是错误的。
10. The poor happy employment rate shows that Hong Kond is patently not a good city.
    香港的快乐就业率如此低，证明香港不是一个好城市。
11. Screens serve a secondary purpose not patently obvious.
    阻尼网还有一个不很明显的次要目的。
12. Yet the path he is on is patently a dead end.
    但他现在走的这条路显然是死路。
13. This is patently untrue, he points out.
    他指出，这显然是不正确的。
14. The root problem is not just a hugely elevated level of public debt, or a patently unsustainable trajectory for old age entitlements. It is an electorate deeply divided over the direction of government, with differences compounded by changing demographics and sustained sluggish growth.
    根本的问题不仅仅在于公共债务水平过高，也不仅仅在于显然不可持续的老年人福利项目，还在于选民对政府政策方向产生了严重分歧，而人口变化和经济增长持续疲弱又加剧了这种分歧。
15. It was patently ridiculous for a doctor practicing his profession to ask a doctor washing windows how he was.
    一个干着本行的医生问一个正洗着橱窗的医生近来如何，显然是可笑的。
16. Her explanation was patently ridiculous.
    她的解释显然是荒唐可笑的。
17. It would patently be a nonsense to put him in complete control.
    要想完完全全地控制他，显然是无知妄为。
18. They will carry on supporting the "official" verdict that is patently false and contrived to protect the real criminals, who will answer for their crimes in the Courts of Justice.
    他们将依旧支持“官方”结论，而其是明显错误的，人为的保护那些真实的罪犯，他们将在公正的裁决面前回应自己的罪行。
19. The construction is patently flawed.
    欧元结构的缺陷显而易见。
20. They are voting today for debt restructuring, just as they were happy in 2009 to be lending to Greece at just 100 points over the Bund when the fiscal problems were patently there for all to see.
    它们现在赞成债务重组，正如在2009年希腊财政问题浮出水面之际，它们乐于以仅比德国国债高出100个基点的利率借给希腊钱。
21. To say Quan is planning to cause them or the Bengal tigers harm is a blatant lie and patently dishonest.
    说全莉要加害他们本人和两只孟加拉虎纯粹是一派胡言，是公然的不诚实。
22. If altering the brain makes it possible to perform better, achieve more or have greater capacities than one's parents, is such alteration patently immoral?
    如果修改脑子可以让他表现得更好、比双亲更有成就或更有能力，这样的改变真的不道德吗？
23. The thing is so patently absurd that we need waste no more words on it.
    这是十分荒谬的事，用不着多说的。
24. It should be patently clear that my expeditions to cramond.
    很明显我带他们去克莱蒙得的经历。
25. Mark had a patently strange pathology; he was obsessed with patterning.
    马克有个显然古怪的病状：他对图形十分着迷。

adv

1. unmistakably (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly')
   1. the answer is obviously wrong
   2. she was in bed and evidently in great pain
   3. he was manifestly too important to leave off the guest list
   4. it is all patently nonsense
   5. she has apparently been living here for some time
   6. I thought he owned the property, but apparently not
   7. You are plainly wrong
   8. he is plain stubborn

   Synonym:    obviouslyevidentlymanifestlyapparentlyplainlyplain