ulterior
英[ʌl'tɪərɪə]
美[ʌl'tɪrɪɚ]
- adj. 将来的，较远的；在那边的；隐秘不明的
英英释意
- 1. lying beyond what is openly revealed or avowed (especially being kept in the background or deliberately concealed);
- "subterranean motives for murder"
- "looked too closely for an ulterior purpose in all knowledge"- Bertrand Russell
- 2. beyond or outside an area of immediate interest; remote;
- "a suggestion ulterior to the present discussion"
- "without...any purpose, immediate or ulterior"- G.B.Shaw
- 3. coming at a subsequent time or stage;
- "the future president entered college at the age of 16"
- "awaiting future actions on the bill"
- "later developments"
- "without ulterior argument"