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 os·ten·si·bly /-bli/
 (ad.)假裝地;表面地

 Os·ten·si·bly adv. In an ostensible manner; avowedly; professedly; apparently.
    Ostensibly, we were intended to prevent filibustering into Texas, but really as a menace to Mexico.   --U. S. Grant.
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 ostensibly
      adv : from appearances alone; "irrigation often produces bumper
            crops from apparently desert land"; "the child is
            seemingly healthy but the doctor is concerned"; "had
            been ostensibly frank as to his purpose while really
            concealing it"-Thomas Hardy; "on the face of it the
            problem seems minor" [syn: apparently, seemingly, on
            the face of it]