On the face of it, it seems like a great deal.

表面上看来好像很多。

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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。

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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。

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Geithner,who appeared on CBS' "Face the Nation" program, called it the "crude reality" of recoveries.

VOA: standard.2009.04.05

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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So on the face of it, this latest analysis is a vote for conventional methods above organic.

BBC: Food: Organic growth?

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

On the face of it, the euro zone combines both these cultures of debt.

WSJ: Lessons for Euro From Two Revolutions