on the face of it

基本解释

On the face of it Palestinians have chosen principle over pragmatism.
面对这项建议，巴勒斯坦人选择了实用主义的原则。
On the face of it, that sounds like a scenario straight out of cheap science fiction.
乍看起来，这种情况，听起来好像是直接来自廉价科幻小说的情节。
On the face of it, that sounds like a scenario straight out of cheap science fiction. But even if the odds of calamity are small, why gamble?
乍看起来，这种情况，听起来好像是直接来自廉价科幻小说的情节。虽然造成灾难的可能性很小，可是为什么要去冒险呢？

Geithner,who appeared on CBS' "Face the Nation" program, called it the "crude reality" of recoveries.
And there is a very big difference between these two simplicities, even though on the face of it, they may at times look similar.
这两种简单性之间有很大的区别，尽管乍看起来，他们有时也许是相似的。
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What he quotes from Levi-Strauss would seem, on the face of it, to have exactly the same kinds of reservation and hesitation about the emergence or birth of language that Derrida himself has.
他引用列维，施特劳斯的部分看上去，乍看起来，与德里达有同样的保留和迟疑,关于语言的诞生。
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On the face of it, two sleepy companies, structured as so-called master limited partnerships (MLPs), merged.
FORBES: Energy MLPs acquire so they can borrow cheaply... and do more deals