on the face of it, britain ought to be attractive for budding green industrialists.

表面上，英国对处于萌芽中的绿色产业应该颇具吸引力。

and on the face of it this is peculiar.

表面上看是很奇怪的。

on the face of things, markets last year were adjusting exactly as economic theory predicts they should: prices rose, drawing investment into farms; supplies then rose sharply, pushing prices down.

去年,表面上市场正如经济理论预测地那样进行调整：价格上升，带动投资流向农场；粮食供应随之剧增，推动价格下跌。

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。

all right, on the face of it leaden gordon brown may not have much in common with fleet muhammad ali.

表面看来，身形笨拙的英国首相布朗和动作迅猛的美国拳王阿里似乎没有共同点。

on the face of it, the alliance is a success.

表面看来，这个联盟是成功的。

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。

yet, not a single person on the face of this earth knows how to make me.

然而这个世界上的任何人都无法从表面判断应该如何制造我。

second, on the face of things, mitochondrial diseases appear far rarer than autism.

第二，表面上看，线粒体疾病要比自闭癥罕见的多。

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。

does anyone wish to challenge my earlier assertion that no single person on the face of this earth knows how to make me?

现在，还有谁对我前面提到的这种说法不服：这个地球上没有一个人完整地知道如何制造？

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 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, 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, it seems the perfect solution.

在应对该问题上，这似乎是一种完美的解决方案。

on the face of it there seems much to be said for the world’s shakers and movers meeting and talking frequently.

从表面上看，这个世界的大佬们频繁聚会和对话，肯定有说不完的话题。

on the face of it, she seems almost perfect.

从表面上看，她几乎是完美的。

on the face of it, this suggests that we「re screwing up, when in fact what is happening is more complex.

表面上看我们做得把一切都搞砸了，而事实上事情的发展要复杂的多。

the look on the face of the eintracht frankfurt player was priceless.

那名法兰克福队员脸上的表情是无价的。

on the face of things, the argument is all about a handful of missiles which, whatever their wider role, will make no difference to the balance of power in europe.

表面看来，所有的争论都是关于一些导弹的——不管他们的角色有多宽泛，对于欧洲的力量平衡都毫无影响。

on the face of it, this is not an ideal time for radical change.

表面上看，此刻并非做出激进变革的最佳时期。

on the face of it, the amount of attention that china」s semiconductor sector is getting seems unwarranted for a sector which typically has low profit margins and high costs.

表面上看，中国半导体行业目前的受关注程度似乎不可理喻——通常而言，半导体行业属于低利润率、高成本的行业。

although this might on the face of it suggest that the initiative is off to a superb start, sadly it does not in fact represent a single additional banana bought or soda shunned.

尽管从表面上来看，这项数据表明该融资倡议可能获得了一个极好的开端，但是令人遗憾地，它并不代表着哪怕多卖出去一根香蕉或者减少摄入碳酸类饮料。

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。

on the face of it, those in the mobile camp seem to have won.

从表面看来，支持移动通信的阵营似乎已经赢了。