之前和大家分享过美国网络小红人"Apparently Kid"的视频

http://v.qq.com/iframe/player.html?vid=e01423zvhtc&width=500&height=375&auto=0

Apparently是什么意思? 尽管我把它翻译成了“显然".

本期的《经济学人》的一篇文章:

THE Bikini Beach Hotel in Panama City Beach, Florida, serves sunbathers of all types. So John Gheesling, the owner, was surprised to be sued for violating the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Apparently a visitor last August found the pool lacked a wheelchair lift, though the hotel keeps one available inside. “Never had anyone ask to use it,” Mr Gheesling says. But fighting such lawsuits is tricky. He has already spent $8,000 in legal fees and there is no end in sight. As it happens, the same plaintiff sued nearly 50 other businesses along the state’s Panhandle in the same month, and filed 529 ADA suits in Florida in 2014.

很显然的是，这里的appartently翻译成“很明显”是说不通的，因为事情的来龙去脉并不明显。

朗文的解释就要简单很多, 而且只有2个释义:

由此看来，apparent有两个意思, 一个就是“明显”，类似obviosly; 一个是“可能是” “看起来是”，类似ostensible.

我们看下Vocabulary.com上的释义。

Get 到了吧.

我们再来看apparently的意思.

韦氏很敷衍，或者说不屑的给出了"it seems apparent".

朗文给出了更清楚的解释，道听途说不一定是靠谱的；眼见也不一定为实。

Vocabulary上怎么说？

"... is almost "evidently" or "obviously," but not quite. There's a certain amount of guessing invovled, based on appearances.

还有一些这样的词会在新闻报道中常见 －－力求严谨。不管证据多确凿，只要是法庭没有判定就得加上“据称是”。 例如:

知道答案是不够的，是懒惰的－－我们批判填鸭式教学，却又说“别跟我讲为什么，告诉我答案就好了”。你有没有意识到过这个问题? 为什么别人知道你不知道？如何找到这个答案？如何较为清楚的去表述你的答案？如何联系已有的知识和提升对问题的认知？...

听别人怎么说怎么做固然有用，但是更重要的是你会怎么去做 －－培训不等于教育。读了一篇文章后转载点赞留两句似是而非的评论(像是阅奏折样)是远远不够的－批判性的学习和吸收信息，并且能够学以致用取长补短，才是语言学习者应该有的学习意识和行动能力。

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