| 单词 | apparent |
| 释义 | ap·par·ent I. 1. a. < an apparent change > < the flaw in the metal was apparent > < deposits of transported material left by the retreating ice are perhaps the most widely apparent results of the glaciation — American Guide Series: New Hampshire > b. < a face in which a strange strife … was apparent — Thomas Hardy > < “you see — my wife — ” he let it go at that because it was apparent that they understood — John Steinbeck > 2. < the states are very jealous of any even apparent encroachment by the federal government — Stephen Duggan > < to this end his apparent digressions eventually return — H.O.Taylor > — distinguished from actual 3. obsolete < as well the fear of harm as harm apparent … ought to be prevented — Shakespeare > 4. Synonyms: < most children have periods of apparent stagnation … but probably throughout these periods there is progress in ways that are not easily perceptible — Bertrand Russell > It may also describe a semblance contrary to truth and actuality, a likeness dissipated by close scrutiny or consideration of all facts < the high mineral content is the reason why irrigation often produces bumper crops from apparent deserts — Stuart Chase > It usually does not suggest a reprehensible intent to deceive < the long corridor … carpeted with a narrow bordered carpet whose parallel lines increased its apparent length — Arnold Bennett > seeming stresses a close resemblance to reality detected only by correcting faulty observation or analysis < John had doubtless no wish to be entangled in a long quarrel … and the Archbishop's mediation allowed him to withdraw with seeming dignity — J.R.Green > It is not derogatory in suggesting deception < the whole of Burns' song has an air of straight dealing … but these seeming simplicities are craftily charged — C.E.Montague > ostensible applies to what is explicitly declared or avowed or to what one would naturally and logically assume from what appears < it is by no means true that every law is void which may seem … unsuited to its ostensible end — O.W.Homes †1935 > It often applies to differences between such declarations or appearances and a true or actual end, aim, purpose, or character < natives … whose ostensible business was the repair of broken necklaces … but whose real end seemed to be to raise money for angry Maharanees — Rudyard Kipling > It often applies to conscious deception < the first time that he had been ostensibly frank as to his purpose while really concealing it — Thomas Hardy > illusory definitely states that the described impressions of truth or actuality are illusions based on deceptive semblances, formed through faulty observation or analysis, or warped by emotional forces < the multiplication of wants, real or illusory — Lewis Mumford > < we need a deeper reality to take the place of these early beliefs which the growth of intelligence necessarily shows to be illusory — Havelock Ellis > < but hopes may be illusoryor ill-founded — they may even attach to what is demonstrably impossible — M.R.Cohen > Synonym: see in addition evident. II. obsolete III. < Islam, the universal church through which … Syriac society came … to be apparented to the Iranic and Arabic societies — A.J.Toynbee > |
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