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supposedly

/suh-poh-zid-lee/US // səˈpoʊ zɪd li //

据称,据说,据说是,据称是

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adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : according to what is falsely claimed, assumed, or imagined: In fact, the supposedly "simple" work of digging holes, cutting down trees, and blasting snowdrifts offered her an education of the hands and head.
    • : according to what is accepted or believed, without positive knowledge: Next weekend it's supposedly getting a bit colder again, but I think that winter is over.

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Examples

  • In an attempt to curry favor with whatever power controlled the singing statue, he supposedly paid for a repair job on it.

  • First of all, for a subject supposedly past its prime, the first two decades of this century have been pretty successful for physics.

  • The viewership decline is supposedly in line with what the networks would expect to see in a regular year.

  • The 2020 NFL season, supposedly inhospitable to rookie quarterbacks with its irregular offseason and absence of preseason games as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, is staging perhaps the greatest season of rookie quarterbacking in NFL history.

  • Fine, he’s president-elect supposedly but the media pushes that.

  • These (roughly) $2,500 ceremonies are supposedly about encouraging “positive feelings” on the part of the single brides.

  • Michigan supposedly offered 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh a $42 million contract, which would him the highest-paid coach in the NCAA.

  • Amelia says some truly terrible things to Sam, supposedly inhabited by the Babadook but really consumed in grief.

  • Your move, supposedly not Tea-Party-fevered Governor John Kasich.

  • They left angry and hurt, and when they were gone, Hitchcock came back supposedly to clear out his personal effects.

  • This tax was retained supposedly to assert the right of Parliament to tax the colonists whenever it so desired.

  • The message that he had reference to was supposedly a night letter addressed to Washington.

  • The guard, without fear of the supposedly bound captive, stepped closer, bending over the young Army officer.

  • It is remarkable that Greek mythology was thus familiar to the supposedly blue-painted savages of Britain.

  • Near Stockport is Geecross, supposedly so named from “an ancient cross erected here by the Gee family”.