每日一词 206 ostensible

ostensible: seeming or stated to be real or true, when this is perhaps not the case.

ostensible: adj 表面上的，貌似真实的。当我们想表示xx seems to be 和 名义上是...时，很多时候都可以用ostensible. 后面经常接 goal, purpose, reason, cause.

我们常说醉翁之意不在酒，也就说表面上做的事情和真实的不敌不同，有别有用心之意。这事我们就可以用到ostensible. 比如某人表面上做慈善，其实是想博得关注。

His ostensible purpose was charity, but his real goal was popularity.

借口：The ostensible reason for his absence was illness, but in fact he was just rather shy.

经济学人用例：

1) The ostensible purpose of such rules is to prevent electoral fraud. 

2) The ostensible cause of popular discontent is a decline in law and order. 

3) Michael Bowling says that although the ostensible goal was to build a winning poker game, the real aim was to "study how to build computers to make decisions in difficult circumstances, especially where there is missing information."

应用：

1） 翻译： 他辞职的表面理由是身体不好。

His ostensible reason for his resignation was ill health. 

2) 造句：对新政策所宣称的好处表示怀疑

People keep skeptical of the ostensible benefits of the new policy.