0 appearing or claiming to be one thing when it is really something else -- 表面上的；假稱的，假託的
Their ostensible goal was to clean up government corruption, but their real aim was to unseat the government. 他們假稱要清除政府腐敗，可真正目的卻是要顛覆政府。
We thus encounter an inescapable double bind in our attempts to read the significance of ostensible attempts at remembrance.
The ostensible relationship of present to past is generally one of rejection as these female protagonists attempt to define for themselves a new identity.
In essence, the practice of governance reform is more important than any ostensible criterion of objective success.
The ostensible exile of beliefs about the supernatural out of written into oral culture increasingly looks like an optical illusion for the same reason.
However, the programme's ostensible journalistic purpose, carried in the commentary and interview structure, was precisely to explore the existence and level of this threat.
The lack of a common thread may well be due to the absence of any definition of the book's ostensible dependent variable - ' 'social policy' '.
Although coregulated behavior seemingly occurs without ostensible training, training in fact begins at the organism's birth.
The force of this thesis will be explained below in relation to a number of ostensible counterexamples to the four-chunk hypothesis that commentators brought up.
