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- An ostensible or professed purpose; an excuse. 借口，托词表面的目的; 理由
- The ostensible reason for his absence was illness. 他假托生病缺勤。
- The ostensible reason wasn't the real reason. 表面上的理由并不是真正的理由。
- The ostensible reason for his absence was illness, but everyone knew he'd gone to a football match. 他称病缺席，但谁都知道他去看足球赛了。
- an ostensible reason 表面 (上) 的理由,借口
- The ostensible reason for his trip to Greece was business, but we thought it was a vacation. 他去希腊表面的理由是出差，但我们认为那是度假。
- The ostensible reason for his absence was illness,but everyone knew he'd gone to a football match. 他称病缺席, 但谁都知道他去看足球赛了。
- The ostensible reason for this pay proposal is that hedge funds create “systemic risk”. 这份薪资提议的表面原因是对冲基金创造了“系统风险”。
- The ostensible reason was to set a good example, but I knew White was hoping I wouldn't do it. 表面的理由是树立一个好榜样，但我知道怀特其实希望我不敢接受测试。
- The ostensible reason for his spxip to Greece was business, but we thought it was a vacation. 他去希腊表面的理由是出差，但我们认为那是度假。
- The ostensible reason of his appearance was the discovery, the very night before, of a perfect little house, not in the market, which was really just the thing for her. 他突然到来的表面理由是在前一天晚上他发现了一座“极好的小屋”，正合她的意，屋子不是在闹市。
- WHEN Japan's 77-year-old finance minister submitted his resignation to Yukio Hatoyama, the prime minister, on January 6th, the ostensible reason was poor health. 1月6日，当77岁的财政部长向首相鸠山由纪夫提交辞呈时，他的表面上称是由健康问题。
- However, we have never turned this into an ostensible marketing and used fashionable terms that quickly wear off and mostly have little relevance for the actual concern. 然而，我们从不把它推入一种表面的市场活动中去，从不使用那些很快就消失而且基本上对实际生活没有什么作用的流行做法。
- I gave him money as an inducement to leave. 我给他钱，诱使他离去。
- That's rather an effective use of color. 这种使用颜色的手法效果相当好。
- The accident put an untimely end to the party. 意外事故使聚会匆匆结束了。
- His strength in a crisis is an ace in the hole. 临危不惧是他的看家本领。
- The plant was growing at an angle. 植物呈一定角度生长。
- He rose fast, like Stalin and Mao, from within an ostensibly secular, progressive political party. 像斯大林一样，他是从一个明显世俗的激进政党（即伊拉克复兴党）中平步青云的。
- She spent an hour in quiet contemplation. 她静静地沉思了一个小时。
