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ad. (副詞 adverb)



          1.    表面上

          2.    明顯地



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–adjective 

1. outwardly appearing as such; professed; pretended: an ostensible cheerfulness [conceal]ing sadness. 

2. apparent, evident, 

or 

conspicuous: the ostensible [truth] of their theories.  





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ostensible, ostentatious (adjs.), ostensibly, ostentatiously (advs.)   

 

Ostensible means "apparent, likely," as in His ostensible reason for calling was to see her father. 



Ostentatious means "showy, pretentious, especially of wealth or knowledge," as in She was ostentatious in displaying her recent reading. 



Ostensibly means "apparently, but not necessarily actually,”as in She was ostensibly unperturbed by his call. 



Ostentatiously means "pretentiously," "with great ceremony," as in He ostentatiously pointed out the virtues of his new car. 



All four are Standard.  





 　

A miraculous achievement by any [stretch] of the imagination, Playtime was the movie that both [sank] Jacques Tati's career and [cemented] his critical reputation. Famously fastidious and exercising complete creative control (only Robert Bresson among contemporary French directors had as much authority over his projects), Tati spent nearly a decade between his previous feature, Mon Oncle, and this folly of a movie. 



Set in a hysterically hyperbolic modernized Paris, Playtime plops [down] Tati's iconic Monsieur Hulot in a bewildering sea of glass and steel. Ostensibly a commentary on modern life and the homogenization of urban culture, the movie resists glib conclusions. 



Initially, Hulot's wanderings seem to hint at a viciously satirical subtext. The movie's commercialized Paris is seen as an alienating, artificial place. As the day wears [on], however, the city -- and the movie -- becomes warmer, more ebullient. The good humor spills over at a climactic party at a ritzy restaurant.



plop

掉下的聲音,撲通聲

ritzy

豪華的,高雅的,最高級的





appellative 

1. a descriptive name or designation

2. a common noun

[Box Office Poison] was a later appellative

the appellative [function] of some primitive rites. 

epithet

1. to label or characterize, sobriquet

2. abuse invectively, expletive (interjectory)

He actually deserves that overused epithet "the last movie star."

Richard [the Lion-Hearted] is an epithet of Richard I.  

All three are symbolically [annihilated] by Jared, who [ravages] her while grunting [sexist] and [racist] epithets in her ear.



scatology 

expletive

Much of this controversy [emanated] from the filmmakers' refusal to delete the [expletives]--[scatalogical]

who managed to [retain] virtually all of Albee's scatological [epithets] (this was the first American film to feature the [expletive] "goddamn"). 



connive

They [con]nived to take over the business.  

The policeman connived [at] traffic violations.  

drunken mothers; [conniving] fathers; double-crossing sweethearts

evict

evince

manifest

yet another movie that [evinces] the filmmaker's obsession with fraternity, not to mention Irene Jacob's face.

Umlaut