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。
Culture is a collectivity, in which we are all, whether we like it or not, implicated, even when we are ostensible victims.
Such forms of healing are deeply embedded in social life and, against the ostensible hopes of many, show no signs of disappearing.
He was instructed to assume charge immediately, and report back, but he clearly regarded this ostensible promotion as a poisoned chalice.
They too had to find a way of living with ostensible contradictions.
While the definition used is broad, such breadth is essential to capture the ostensible purpose of environmental concern and environmental action: reduced environmental damage.
Even in the most violent and chaotic farm invasions during the ' time of jambanja ' there was an equally instrumental order beneath ostensible disorder.
Here, the ostensible line between cosmetic artificiality and "genuine" beauty is obliterated.
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.
