| 词组 | apparently, evidently |
| 释义 | apparently, evidently Entries in Kilpatrick 1984 and Bremner 1980 at the adjective apparent express concern about the contradictory senses of the word and about the problem of distinguishing it from evident. These problems are, as a matter of fact, fully treated in good desk dictionaries and synonymy books. But Kil-patrick's underlying concern seems really to be with the adverbs, and here, at least in the case of apparently, dictionary treatment tends to be less than full, dictionary editors having the habit of tucking -ly adverb derivatives at the end of adjective entries without definitions in order to conserve space. A. S. Hill 1895 distinguishes between apparently and evidently in this way: Apparently is properly used of that which seems, but may not be, real; evidently, of that which both seems and is real. HilPs observation is still essentially right. Evidently regularly suggests that there is some overt reason for drawing an inference: • It evidently didn't want to share its ocean with us, because it hauled off for about a hundred yards — Patrick Ellam, "The Dangerous Deep," in Networks, ed. Marjorie Seddon Johnson et al., 1977 • ... went off, evidently satisfied that he had upheld private-property rights —Roy Bongartz, N. Y. Times Mag., 13 July 1975 • His father was evidently a man of means, for in 1782 he presented his son with a farm of 220 acres —Dictionary of American Biography, 1929 Apparently is used as a disclaimer, as if the author were telling us, "This is what it seems to be, but I won't vouch for it." • There is a difference, apparently, between the aims of Leningrad and Moscow —John Tebbel, Saturday Rev., 8 Jan. 1972 • ... beginning and then putting aside several manuscripts, apparently dissatisfied with all of them — Irving Howe, Harper's, October 1970 • There was apparently no investigation into the child's welfare and the mother's fitness —Eileen Hughes, Ladies' Home Jour., September 1971 • The explanation for this apparently abject sell-out — Times Literary Supp., 26 Mar. 1970 • ... gives an artistic effect apparently closer to a possible original than the scenes from Dante —T. S. Eliot, "Tradition and the Individual Talent," 1917, in American Harvest, ed. Allen Tate & John Peale Bishop, 1942 Evidently is sometimes used in contexts where apparently could also be used: • Mr. Dahl evidently believes that others will in the long run follow the same course, even where recent history reads as a record of backsliding —Times Literary Supp., 30 July 1971 Still, it always connotes some evidence in corroboration; apparently may connote that, if there is evidence, it does not necessarily corroborate. Our evidence and that in Kucera & Francis 1967 show apparently to be much more frequently used than is evidently. |
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