patently
adv. 明白地,公然地
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.
P&G applied for a patent on its cookies...
宝洁公司为它的饼干申请专利权。
He held a number of patents for his many innovations...
他拥有多项发明的专利权。
If you patent something, you obtain a patent for it.
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。
The invention has been patented by the university.
那项发明已被那所大学申请了专利。
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.
This was patent nonsense.
这明显是胡说八道。
...a patent lie.
赤裸裸的谎言
1. unmistakably (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly');
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.
One of London Zoo's recent advertisements caused me some irritation, so patently did it distort reality.
一个动物园的广告让我有些愤怒, 它如此公然地歪曲事实.
He was patently lying.
他显然是在说谎.
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.
It's patently absurd not to wear a coat in such cold weather.
这么冷的天气不穿外衣,显然很荒唐.