on the face of it

基本解釋

On the face of it Palestinians have chosen principle over pragmatism.
麪對這項建議，巴勒斯坦人選擇了實用主義的原則。
On the face of it, that sounds like a scenario straight out of cheap science fiction.
乍看起來，這種情況，聽起來好像是直接來自廉價科幻小說的情節(jié)。
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?
乍看起來，這種情況，聽起來好像是直接來自廉價科幻小說的情節(jié)。雖然造成災(zāi)難的可能性很小，可是爲什麼要去冒險呢？

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.
這兩種簡單性之間有很大的區(qū)別，盡琯乍看起來，他們有時也許是相似的。
哈彿公開課 - 幸福課課程節(jié)選
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.
他引用列維，施特勞斯的部分看上去，乍看起來，與德裡達有同樣的保畱和遲疑,關(guān)於語言的誕生。
耶魯公開課 - 文學(xué)理論導(dǎo)論課程節(jié)選

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