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单词 prima facie
释义
prima facie
adjective[before noun]
lawformalorspecialized
uk
/ˌpraɪ.mə ˈfeɪ.ʃi/us
/ˌpraɪ.mə ˈfeɪ.ʃi/
at firstsight(=basedon whatseemsto be thetruthwhen firstseenorheard):
初步认定的；建立在初次印象上的
There is prima facieevidencethat he wasinvolvedin thefraud.有初步证据证明他参与了这场骗局。
For millions ofAmericanswitnessingtheevent, it was a prima faciecaseofpolicebrutality.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。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Seeming and purporting to be
  • apparent
  • appear
  • as if/thoughidiom
  • by the look(s) of thingsidiom
  • come across
  • come off
  • outward
  • outwardly
  • parallax
  • pass
  • pass for sb/sth
  • persona
  • semblance
  • so-called
  • sound
  • superficial
  • superficiality
  • superficially
  • supposed
  • surface
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(Definition ofprima faciefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

prima facie| Business English

prima facie
adjective[before noun]
uk
us
LAW
basedon whatseemsto be thetruthwhen firstseenorheard:
Thecommissionsays thereportprovidesprimafacieevidenceofmediaracism.
They could onlyseektheinformationif there was aprimafaciecaseoffraudtoinvestigate.
(Definition ofprima faciefrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofprima facie

prima facie
Although aprimafacieattractive idea, it is easy to think of counter-examples.
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Agents bargaining in the same market areprimafacieseen as members of a loose, non-integrated dependence network.
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This is because it isprimafaciewrong to play a role in undermining people's judgment and will.
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In these respects there is indeed aprimafaciecase for design.
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And there are goodprimafaciereasons to hold that they are so challenged.
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We note also that the intuition behind the account, thoughprimafaciecompelling, seems to suffer counterexamples.
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This solution would thus also reject 1 and 2, calling the duties in questionprimafacierather than all-things-considered duties.
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Properties of the act itself or how it brings about consequences help make itprimafaciewrong and nonproportional to many ends.
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Sometimes effects occur that fall beyond theprimafaciepurposes of the entity.
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Physicians have a clearprimafacieobligation to obey fair rules of rationing.
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One implication of this incontrovertible fact might be that toleration is alwaysprimafaciewrong in such cases.
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This creates aprimafaciepresumption that participants are at least no worse off by joining than they would be by not joining.
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The underlying idea is that having freedom is, at leastprimafacie, valuable.
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Or, at least, that is the goodprimafaciecase for the claim that it does.
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In short, no case has been made for holding principle (1), despiteprimafaciecases against it.
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