He had also reasons, deep rather than ostensible, for being satisfied with his own appearance.

他对自己的外表感到满意也有深刻而不表面上的理由。

Life ossified his face ostensible , but not his heart.

表面上，生活硬化了他的脸，但没有硬化他的心。

It is hard to fathom, and bitterly ironic: the depth of the suffering caused by drugs whose ostensible purpose is to alleviate pain.

表面上为了减轻痛苦的毒品实际上给病人造成了莫大的伤害。

He was brushed and washed at the usual hour, and set off with his son to pursue his ostensible calling.

他在通常的时间被刷洗，然后和他的儿子一起出发去追求他表面上的使命。

Impeding a merger of PanAm and CSX would produce purely illusory benefits while harming the ostensible goals of this administration and Congress.

止泛美航空和CSX公司的合并将只会产生纯粹虚幻的好处，同时损害本届政府和国会的表面目标。

The Audience now assembled in the Capuchin Church was collected by various causes, but all of them were foreign to the ostensible motive.

在聚集在嘉布遣会教堂的听众出各种原因聚集的，但所有这些都与表面上的动机无关。

So two or three other persons were invited; but Morris Townsend, though he was by no means the ostensible, was the real, occasion of the feast.

邀请了两三个人；但莫里斯·汤森德，尽管他绝不表面上的样子，却宴会的真正主角。

Large sums are spent to gain technological superiority and possess the world's largest nuclear arsenal with the ostensible aim of deterring the enemy from attacking.

为了获得技术优势并拥有世界上最大的核武库， 花费了大量资金， 表面上的目的威慑敌人的攻击。

The inevitable war with Mexico, foretold by the abolitionists and feared by Henry Clay, ensued, the ostensible cause being a dispute over the boundaries of the new state.

——废奴主义者预言、亨利·克莱担心的与墨西哥不可避免的战争接踵而至，表面上的原因对新国家边界的争论。

No motive other than the ostensible one could possibly be conjectured by Jim Hayward at this time; and the next morning he started with great pleasure, in his best business suit of clothes.

吉姆·海沃德此时除了表面上的动机外，不可能推测出其他动机；第二天早上，他穿着他最好的商务套装，非常高兴地开始了。

The ostensible purpose of the motions under debate was the handling of this campaign, but it quickly evolved into a discussion of the general handling of the war by Neville Chamberlain and his government.

正在辩论的动议表面上的目的处理这场战役，但它很快演变成对内维尔·张伯伦和他的政府对战争的总体处理的讨论。

How little any expectation of the moonlight prospect—which was the ostensible reason of their pilgrimage—had to do with Knight's real motive in getting the gentle girl again upon his arm, Elfride no less than himself well knew.

对月光前景的任何期望——这他们朝圣的表面原因——与奈特让温柔的女孩再次挽在他胳膊上的真正动机有多大关系， 埃尔弗里德和他自己一样清楚。

As soon as it was inevitable, Mrs. Herriton wrote a letter for Waters and Adamson to send to Gino—the oddest letter; Philip saw a copy of it afterwards. Its ostensible purpose was to complain of the picture postcards.

一旦不可避免，赫里顿夫人就写了一封信，让沃特斯和亚当森寄给吉诺——一封最奇怪的信；菲利普后来看到了它的副本。它表面上的目的抱怨图片明信片。