On the face of it, their marriage seems an improbable alliance.
从表面上看，他们的婚姻似乎是一个荒谬的结合。
On the face of it that seems to make sense. But the figures don't add up.
乍一看，那好像讲得通。但是数字对不上。
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？
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。
Though their power is renewable and, on the face of it, carbon-free, there are lots of bad things about them, too.
尽管它产生的能源是可再生的，并且在表面上是无碳排放的，但还是有很多不好的方面。
On the face of it, this seems unlikely, because the characteristics that have been engineered into them are ones designed to make them into better food, rather than lean, mean breeding machines.
表面看来，这似乎不太可能，因为基因工程赋予它们的特征是为了使它们成为更好的食物，而不是竞争力强的高效繁殖机器。
On the face of it, then, artificial life looks like a wonderful thing. Yet that is not how many will view the announcement.
于是，虽然人造生命表面上看是个美好的事物，但这事情并非属于那类“有多少”、“是好坏”看公告就将能知道的。
Apart from being absurd on the face of it, if it were as easy as that, we would have been overrun by saints since time immemorial.
从表面上看这件事真的很荒唐，如果真的有想的那么容易的话，我想我们古时候的圣人学者也会觉得这种做法很荒唐。
Cost could be one of them, though on the face of it Britain is not out of line.
花费就是其中的一项，虽然从表面上看英国并没有什么问题。
On the face of it, this seems bizarre.
从表面上，这一点似乎很奇怪。
What about the final move of Descartes argument this seems rather more defensible though on the face of it, it might seem dubious.
那么笛卡尔论据的最后阶段是怎么样的呢，虽然要直面这个问题，但那似乎仍然很慎密，仍然值得怀疑。
On the face of it, the M4 measure of broad money (cash and deposits) has been growing fast.
从表面上看，广义货币（现金和存款）衡量指标M4已处于快速增长中。
On the face of it, a gloomy outlook argues for Treasuries.
表面上来看，暗无天日的惨淡前景支持了国债。
On the face of it this seems an extraordinary proposition given that surface temperatures on Mercury, certainly at the equator, can exceed 400C - hot enough to melt lead.
从水星表面来看，这是一个很荒谬的观点，因为水星表面的温度，尤其在赤道地区可超过400摄氏度，这个温度足以将刨冰融化掉了。
On the face of it, that is an odd question. After all, if the world runs short of corn or wheat, farmers can simply grow more, weather permitting.
事实上，这是一个古怪的问题，如果世界短缺玉米和小麦，农民种出更多的粮食来就好了（如果天气没问题）。
On the face of it, that sounds like an SEO's dream - rich, unique content that search engines will love.
表面上看来，上面这些听起来像是量化搜索引擎的梦想- - -丰富独特的内容，都是搜索引擎的最爱。
On the face of it, this week's renewed bond-market jitters were caused by growing doubts that an emergency-aid package patched together by European Union leaders last month offers Greece much help.
从表面上看，这周债券市场的再度恐慌是由于越来越多的人怀疑上个月由欧盟各国领导人共同提出的一揽子援助计划是否能帮助希腊。
On the face of it, the obesity epidemic in rich countries presents exactly the opposite problem.
面对着营养不良的问题，富裕国家肥胖症流行是性质完全相反的问题。
On the face of it, France seems to be going through one of those convulsions that this nation born of revolution periodically requires in order to break with the past and to move forward.
表面上，法国似乎为分离过去，使国家进步而正在经历那些使国家周期性重生而又不可避免的动荡与不安。
These questions -which on the face of it seem like bloopers, as they are called by film buffs -actually invite you further into the world of the novel and the time it was written.
这些问题表面看起来象漏洞，就象电影里的穿帮镜头，而实际上，会让你更加深入到小说的世界里和小说描写的年代中。
On the face of it, grooming another animal is functional. It keeps the pelt clean and removes parasites.
表面看来，为其他动物整理毛发是有实际功用的：可以保持皮毛洁净，去除寄生虫。
On the face of it, equity is the most natural way for precocious, up-and-coming economies to raise money abroad.
表面上看，对前景光明的经济来说，普通股是从海外筹集资金的最自然的途径。
On the face of it, price does not capture many things that decide whether a merger will work.
表面来看，价格并不能赢得决定一笔并购能否成功的众多因素。
ON THE face of it the world’s big and publicly quoted oil companies should be celebrating some pleasing results this week.
从表面看，世界上大的及上市石油公司这周应该庆祝他们的骄人成果。
On the face of it, this represents a big drop in China’s demand for foreign assets.
乍看之下，这描绘了中国对外国资产需求的巨大下降。
On the face of it, this is bizarre really because country music is all about heartache.
表面看，这比较奇怪因为乡村音乐是关于头痛的。
On the face of it Asia stacks up not at all well against this achievement.
表面看来，亚洲从未合力抵触这一成就。
Default rates of more than 50% are not uncommon-on the face of it, a shocking number.
违约率逾50%并不少见-从表面看，这是一个惊人的数字。
Default rates of more than 50% are not uncommon-on the face of it, a shocking number.
违约率逾50%并不少见-从表面看，这是一个惊人的数字。
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