核心畫面
Think of putting a little distance between yourself and a claim: you're reporting how things look or what you've heard, while quietly that you can't fully vouch for it.
可以想成你在一句話和你自己之間，留了一點點距離：你把「看起來是這樣」或「我聽說是這樣」說出來，同時悄悄掛上一個但書—…更多收起
可以想成你在一句話和你自己之間，留了一點點距離：你把「看起來是這樣」或「我聽說是這樣」說出來，同時悄悄掛上一個但書——這不是我能拍胸脯保證的。apparently 的兩個用法都繞著這份「保留」轉：一個偏向「據我所聽說」，一個偏向「就外表看起來」，但底下都是同一個動作——傳達一個你不敢百分百打包票的判斷。原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
apparentlyadv/əˈpæɹəntli/
- 1
rarePlainly; clearly; manifestly; evidently.
- If he should scorn me so apparently.
- One, my lord, that doth so palpably, so apparently make her adulteries a trophy, whiles the poting-stick to her unsatiate goatish abomination jeers at, and flouts your sleepish, and more than sleepish, security.
- 2
Seemingly; in appearance.
- A man may be apparently friendly, yet malicious in heart.
- The r-stems had apparently been reduced to the five nuclear kinship terms that still survive in Modern English.
- 3
According to what the speaker has read or heard.
- Apparently you are quite a good dancer.
- "[…] Apparently they are going to contact the adoption agency and see if they can locate that child. […]"
- 4
According to what one can deduce.
- Peridot: I can tell you with certainty that there are things on this planet worth protecting! Yellow Diamond: What do you know about the Earth?! Peridot: Apparently more than you, you clod!
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。