单词 | apparently |
释义 | apparently (once / 85 pages) adv Apparently is an adverb meaning "evidently" or "obviously." After his sixth hot dog, you might say to your friend, "Well! Apparently somebody was hungry!" While apparently can mean "plainly" — like, duh — it can also mean "seemingly," which is almost "evidently" or "obviously," but not quite. There's a certain amount of guessing involved, based on appearances. The park ranger who shows up in the morning to examine the path of destruction through your campsite might say that it was "apparently the work of a hungry bear," not because he's totally sure, but because it definitely looks like something the bears around here would do. WORD FAMILYapparent: apparency, apparently, apparentness, unapparent USAGE EXAMPLESBank Stadium operator SMG said in a statement that they apparently climbed over a guard rail to access the ridge truss. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) The problem is that Mr. Trump apparently does not sit still for the intelligence briefings that try to describe the world as it is. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) Apparently you used to read the dictionary as a child? BBC(Jan 02, 2017) 1adv from appearances alone irrigation often produces bumper crops from apparently desert land Syn on the face of it, ostensibly, seemingly 2adv unmistakably (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly') she has apparently been living here for some time I thought he owned the property, but apparently not Syn evidently, manifestly, obviously, patently, plain, plainly |
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