patently

英 [ˈpeɪtəntli]

美 [ˈpætəntli]

adv.  毫无疑问; 显然

BNC.13725 / COCA.16413

牛津词典

adv.

• 毫无疑问；显然
  without doubt
  1. Her explanation was patently ridiculous.
     她的解释显然是荒唐可笑的。
  2. It was patently obvious that she was lying.
     她显然是在撒谎。

柯林斯词典

The pronunciation /'pætənt/ is also used for meanings 1 and 2 in British English. 英国英语中义项1和2亦读作/'pætənt/。


• N-COUNT 专利权
  Apatentis an official right to be the only person or company allowed to make or sell a new product for a certain period of time.
  1. P&G applied for a patent on its cookies...
     宝洁公司为它的饼干申请专利权。
  2. He held a number of patents for his many innovations...
     他拥有多项发明的专利权。
  3. It sued Centrocorp for patent infringement.
     它诉Centrocorp公司侵犯专利权。
• VERB 得到…的专利权
  If youpatentsomething, you obtain a patent for it.
  1. He patented the idea that the atom could be split...
     他获得了“原子可以再分”这一概念的专利权。
  2. The invention has been patented by the university.
     那项发明已被那所大学申请了专利。
  3. ...a patented machine called the VCR II.
     名为VCR II的专利机器
• ADJ-GRADED （尤指坏事物）明显的，显而易见的
  You usepatentto describe something, especially something bad, in order to indicate in an emphatic way that you think its nature or existence is clear and obvious.
  1. This was patent nonsense.
     这明显是胡说八道。
  2. ...a patent lie.
     赤裸裸的谎言

英英释义

adv

• unmistakably (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly')
  1. the answer is obviously wrong
  2. she was in bed and evidently in great pain
  3. he was manifestly too important to leave off the guest list
  4. it is all patently nonsense
  5. she has apparently been living here for some time
  6. I thought he owned the property, but apparently not
  7. You are plainly wrong
  8. he is plain stubborn
  Synonym:obviouslyevidentlymanifestlyapparentlyplainlyplain

双语例句

• This is patently untrue, he points out.
  他指出，这显然是不正确的。
• Though Dr Warren patently sees his site, which claims to have been responsible for 600,000 marriages, as a cut above those facilitating mere hookups.
  然而，沃伦博士显然认为自己的网站优于那些只是安排约会的网站。该网站声称促成了60万桩婚姻。
• For such a private man it was patently painful to have to testify about the intimacies of their relationship.
  对这样一个退隐的人来说，出庭阐述两人的婚姻关系显然非常痛苦。
• If altering the brain makes it possible to perform better, achieve more or have greater capacities than one's parents, is such alteration patently immoral?
  如果修改脑子可以让他表现得更好、比双亲更有成就或更有能力，这样的改变真的不道德吗？
• And for derivatives, historic cost accounting is patently wrong.
  并且，就衍生品而言，采用历史成本会计显然是错误的。
• The construction is patently flawed.
  欧元结构的缺陷显而易见。
• The thing is so patently absurd that we need waste no more words on it.
  这是十分荒谬的事，用不着多说的。
• The poor happy employment rate shows that Hong Kond is patently not a good city.
  香港的快乐就业率如此低，证明香港不是一个好城市。
• Whatever approach you take, there's really only one patently wrong one: the big bucket approach, where you throw everything into one directory.
  不管使用什么方法，实际上只有一个方法是明显错误的：大桶方法，即将一切抛到一个目录中。
• It should be patently clear that my expeditions to cramond.
  很明显我带他们去克莱蒙得的经历。