1. 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。
2. Other countries, some of them equally remote in space from the ostensible setting of the poem, have reacted in similar ways. 另一些国家，其中有的在空间上与诗中假托的背景同样遥远，人们对此诗也作出了类似的反应。
3. He had a suite of rooms reserved for himself at the Grand Pacific, which was then the exclusive hotel of Chicago, and this was his ostensible residence. 他在大太平洋旅馆包了一排房间，原来这是当时芝加哥唯一的大旅馆，他就把那里当作形式上的寓所。
英英解释
adj.
1. appearing as such but not necessarily so
2. represented or appearing as such; pretended
