ostensible

adj.

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
   1. The ostensible reason for his absence was illness.
      他假托生病缺勤。

1. ADJ 表面上的；貌似真实的；宣称的
   Ostensible is used to describe something that seems to be true or is officially stated to be true, but about which you or other people have doubts.
   1. The ostensible purpose of these meetings was to gather information on financial strategies.
      这些会议声称旨在收集有关金融策略的信息。

1. The ostensible purpose of these meetings was to gather information on financial strategies.
   这些会议声称旨在收集有关金融策略的信息。
2. For the ostensible winner, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Suez enabled him to fire up the region with pan-Arab nationalism.
   对于明显的胜利者贾迈勒？阿卜杜勒？纳赛尔（GAMALABDELNASSER）来说，苏伊士运河危机让他能够在该地区点燃泛阿拉伯民族主义之火。
3. The ostensible reason was that Hatoyama had displeased Washington by reneging on a deal to build a new US Marine base on Okinawa.
   表面上的原因是，鸠山拒绝履行冲绳美国海军基地新建协议，触怒了华盛顿。
4. First, the ostensible goal is to get rid of the antiquated multiplicity of insecure credit cards and replace them with your smartphone* your smartphone is your wallet.
   首先，Google钱包的大体目标是用智能手机取代过时的、种类繁多但并不安全的信用卡，把你的智能手机变成你的钱包。
5. 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。
6. Morris Townsend though he was by no means ostensible, was the real occasion of the feast.
   尽管没有讲明，莫里斯·汤森德显然是这场宴请的真正目标。
7. 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。
8. Co-relations between Ostensible Invitation Strategies and Social Distance in Chinese
   汉语中礼节性邀请策略与社会距离的关联性研究
9. His ostensible purpose was charity, his real goal popularity.
   他表面的目的是做善事，实际目标是获得声望。
10. 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。
11. They consider the ostensible clash of interests between private and public transportation as artificial and destructive to the health of these cities.
    他们认为私人和公众交通间的表面上的利益冲突是人为的，对这些城市的健康发展具有破坏性。
12. 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。
13. An ostensible tightening policy and talk of price controls addresses this.
    表面上的货币紧缩政策和有关价格管控的讲话用于解决这个问题。
14. The ostensible reason for his trip to Greece was business, but we thought it was a vacation.
    他去希腊外貌的原因是出差，但我们以为那是假期度假。
15. There was no ostensible explanation for what he had done.
    对他所做事情的解释是真实的。
16. 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。
17. The ostensible reason for the army's presence was to keep the peace.
    派驻军队表面上是为了维持和平。
18. 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。
19. The ostensible opposition between translatability and intranslatahihy overshadows the focus on different aspects of the language system.
    不可译性与可译性之间表面的对立所遮蔽的是二者对语言不同层面的关注。
20. The system of ostensible agency can guarantee the safety of deals, meet the demand of personal interests and improve the efficiency of deals.
    摘要表见代理制度能有效地维护交易的安全，又能满足本人利益最大化的需要，并可有力地促进交易和提高效率。
21. The ostensible excuse that it is unable to do so looks less tenable now it has some military successes against the Taliban.
    既然已经取得了一些军事胜利，那么表面上借口无法给予援助如今看来更加不成立。
22. The ostensible purpose of his excursion.
    他公开声称的出游目的。
23. In pursuit of safeguards designed principally to protect the city of London, the prime minister has vetoed a treaty whose ostensible purpose is to secure a rescue of the eurozone.
    为寻求以保护伦敦金融城为主要目的的保障措施，卡梅伦否决了一项以确保欧元区纾困行动为公开目的的条约。
24. He resigned his secretaryship on the ostensible ground of health.
    他借口身体不好，辞去书记的职务。
25. Concept and installation style, in fact, was merely heir ostensible practice towards avantgarde thinking, but their focus was still on the pursuit of Chinese personality.
    观念性和装置形式实际上是他们前卫性的一个表层实践，但真正的核心还在于对于语言躯壳的中国性的追求。
26. But first the young Toodles, victims of a pious fraud, were deluded into repairing in a body to a chandler's shop in the neighbourhood, for the ostensible purpose of spending a penny;
    但是首先是把年轻的图德尔们（他们是一个意向善良的骗局的牺牲品）哄骗到一个邻近的零售店里去，表面上的理由是让他们把一个便士在那里花掉。
27. The ostensible subject: whether Bush should be censured for unconstitutional conduct in ordering electronic surveillance of Americans without a warrant.
    很明显的主题是：未经授权而下令对美国人民进行电子监控，布什是否应当为此违反宪法的行为受到非难。
28. The South China Sea events demonstrate that, in a fight, China cannot rely on perceptions of its ostensible place in the new age to smooth its way out of potential confrontation.
    南海事件表明，在争端中，中国无法依靠在新世纪取得的表面上的成就，让潜在冲突从自己的道路上消失。
29. Provided the acts or omissions are within the ostensible authority of that person.
    但些作或不作在名人士的表面力之。
30. 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。

adj

1. represented or appearing as such
   1. His ostensible purpose was charity, his real goal popularity

   Synonym:    ostensive

2. appearing as such but not necessarily so
   1. for all his apparent wealth he had no money to pay the rent
   2. the committee investigated some apparent discrepancies
   3. the ostensible truth of their theories
   4. his seeming honesty

   Synonym:    apparent(a)seeming(a)