ostensibly
英 [?'stens?bl?]
美[ɑs't?ns?bli]
- adv. 表面上；外表
英英釋意
- 1. from appearances alone;
- "irrigation often produces bumper crops from apparently desert land"
- "the child is seemingly healthy but the doctor is concerned"
- "had been ostensibly frank as to his purpose while really concealing it"-Thomas Hardy
- "on the face of it the problem seems minor"