VERBS | ADVERB | PREPOSITION | PHRASESVERBS➤appear, be, look, seem, sound顯得明顯;明顯;看上去顯而易見;似乎明顯;聽起來明顯▸➤become變得明顯◇It soon became obvious that the machine did not work.機器故障很快就顯現出來了。➤make sth使⋯清楚◇His manner made it obvious he didn't like her.他的態度清楚地表明他不喜歡她。ADVERB➤extremely, fairly, very, etc.極其/相當/非常明顯◇I'm not going to tell Jim about this, for fairly obvious reasons.因為一些顯而易見的原因,我不打算把這件事告訴吉姆。➤blatantly, blindingly, glaringly, patently, transparently (especially BrE) 極其明顯;一目瞭然▸➤completely, perfectly, quite完全/十分/非常明顯◇The answer is perfectly obvious!答案十分明顯!➤increasingly日益明顯▸➤by no means, far from, less than, not at all, not entirely一點兒也不明顯◇It was far from obvious how they were going to get off the island.很難看出他們將如何離開這座島。➤a little, slightly, etc.有些/略微有些明顯▸➤apparently, seemingly貌似/看似明顯▸➤immediately馬上看得出◇It was immediately obvious that the bag was too heavy.馬上就發覺這個包太重了。➤intuitively直覺上顯而易見◇Avoid making intuitively obvious but unfounded assertions.避免作出僅憑直覺卻沒有根據的論斷。➤depressingly, painfully明顯讓人憂傷/痛苦◇It was becoming painfully obvious that the two of them had nothing in common.他們倆沒有任何共同點,這一點日漸明顯,令人難過。➤all too太明顯◇The ineptitude of the government was all too obvious.政府的無能實在太明顯了。PREPOSITION➤to對⋯來說顯而易見◇It is obvious to me that you're unhappy in your job.我很清楚你的工作不如意。PHRASES➤be so obvious that...很明顯⋯◇The metaphor is so obvious that it's impossible to miss.這一比喻顯而易見,不可能看不出來。