ostensible
adj. 表面上的; 假裝的; 貌似真實的
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.
The ostensible purpose of these meetings was to gather information on financial strategies.
這些會議聲稱旨在收集有關金融策略的資訊。
1. appearing as such but not necessarily so;
2. represented or appearing as such; pretended;
He did not accept the ostensible explanation, but suspected that there was a nigger in the woodpile.
他不同意那種表面解釋, 懷疑其中有不可告人之處.
He resigned secretaryship on the ostensible ground of health.
他藉口身體不好,辭去書記的職務.
His ostensible purpose was charity, his real goal popularity.
他表面的目的是做善事, 實際目標是獲得聲望.
Morris Townsend though he was by no means ostensible, was the real occasion of the feast.
儘管沒有講明,莫里斯·湯森德顯然是這場宴請的真正目標.
Ornate as they are , these ostensible and material are after all nothingness for life.
對於生命而言,表象的、物質的東西再絢麗,終究是空無的.