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

• The construction is patently flawed.
  欧元结构的缺陷显而易见。
• 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。
• 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？
• To say Quan is planning to cause them or the Bengal tigers harm is a blatant lie and patently dishonest.
  说全莉要加害他们本人和两只孟加拉虎纯粹是一派胡言，是公然的不诚实。
• 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。
• While NoSQL datastores are particularly suited to storing big data ( think Google's Bigtable), NoSQL is a patently non-relational approach.
  因为NoSQL数据商店尤其适合存储大型数据（如Google的Bigtable），显然NoSQL是一种非关系数据库方法。
• The lesson is not that AIG was badly treated it patently was not but that others gain enormous, usually invisible, benefits.
  问题不在于aig遭受了糟糕的待遇事实显然相反而在于其他人获得了巨大的、通常是隐性的利益。
• 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。
• The persistent and unilateral action taken by the White House to slap 'sanctions' against the DPRK patently proves that it is still not away from inveterate repugnancy and hostility towards the DPRK, it said on Sunday.
  美国白宫为‘制裁’朝鲜所持续采取的单方面行动，显然证明美国仍然没有消除对朝鲜根深蒂固的憎恶和敌意。
• It would patently be a nonsense to put him in complete control.
  要想完完全全地控制他，显然是无知妄为。