| 词汇 | prima-facie |
| 释义 | prima facie adjective[ before noun ] law formal or specializeduk /ˌpraɪ.mə ˈfeɪ.ʃi/ us /ˌpraɪ.mə ˈfeɪ.ʃi/ at first sight (= based on what seems to be the truth when first seen or heard): 初步认定的;建立在初次印象上的 There is prima facie evidence that he was involved in the fraud.有初步证据证明他参与了这场骗局。 For millions of Americans witnessing the event, it was a prima facie case of police brutality.对于目睹了这起事件的数百万美国人来说，初看起来这是一起警察施暴案件。 Seeming and purporting to be apparent appear appearance as if/thoughidiom by the look(s) of thingsidiom come across come off formal outward outwardly outwardness parallax pass pass for sb/sth semblance superficial superficiality superficially supposably surface prima facie | Business Englishprima facie adjective[ before noun ] ukus LAW based on what seems to be the truth when first seen or heard: The commission says the report provides prima facie evidence of media racism. They could only seek the information if there was a prima facie case of fraud to investigate. Examples of prima facieprima facie Although a primafacie attractive idea, it is easy to think of counter-examples. Agents bargaining in the same market are primafacie seen as members of a loose, non-integrated dependence network. This is because it is primafacie wrong to play a role in undermining people's judgment and will. In these respects there is indeed a primafacie case for design. And there are good primafacie reasons to hold that they are so challenged. We note also that the intuition behind the account, though primafacie compelling, seems to suffer counterexamples. This solution would thus also reject 1 and 2, calling the duties in question primafacie rather than all-things-considered duties. Properties of the act itself or how it brings about consequences help make it primafacie wrong and nonproportional to many ends. Sometimes effects occur that fall beyond the primafacie purposes of the entity. Physicians have a clear primafacie obligation to obey fair rules of rationing. One implication of this incontrovertible fact might be that toleration is always primafacie wrong in such cases. This creates a primafacie presumption that participants are at least no worse off by joining than they would be by not joining. The underlying idea is that having freedom is, at least primafacie, valuable. Or, at least, that is the good primafacie case for the claim that it does. In short, no case has been made for holding principle (1), despite primafacie cases against it. See all examples of prima facie These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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