You look like you're being humble, but in fact you're bragging – showing off - about your car. It's a humblebrag. False modesty.

你面上很谦逊，但实际上是在炫耀——显摆——你的车。这就是" humblebrag" ，谦虚自夸，虚伪的谦逊。

Outwardly she was smiling and serene. Inside was another story.

面上她面带微笑，神态安详。在内心里又是另外一个故事。

There still exist turbulent, revolutionary undercurrents in this seemingly peaceful world.

在这个面上和平的世界里，骚乱与动荡的潜流依然存在。

Despite all the genteel charm, Bernini was known to have a low boiling point.

尽管贝面上是温文尔雅，但是大家都知道他是个容忍度很低的人。

It looks red because of rust – iron oxide on the surface, which is red and, interestingly that look can change.

它看起来呈红色是是因为铁锈——面上的氧化铁，它是红色的，有趣的是，它的外观可以改变。

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

面上是为了减轻痛苦的毒品实际上给病人造成了莫大的伤害。

Ostensibly, it was to fund the expansion of Hungary's only nuclear Soviet era power plant.

面上看，这是为了资助匈牙利唯一的核苏联时的核电站的扩建。

Their surface might include a cook, a maid and a nurse for the children.

他们面上可能是一个厨师，一个女仆，一个照顾孩子的护士。

Now, that is a confusing argument on its face.

从面上看，这个理由令人困惑。

Yet the scale of Oldenburg's objects was only superficially absurd.

但欧登伯格作品的规模只是面上荒谬。

On the surface, a sacred stone is still a stone, indistinguishable from any other.

面上，神圣的石头仍然是一块石头，与其他石头无异。

A happy constitution supplied philosophy, and though seemingly destitute of wisdom he was really wise.

从他快乐的心理素质能洞察到他的人生哲学，尽管面上缺少智慧，其实他是真正睿智的人。

You know classic tales arent always what they seem to be, and they hide the harsh reality of their times in which they were created.

大家知道，经典故事并不总是面上看起来的那样，故事背后反映的是那个时残酷的现实。

On Halloween morning, Harry awoke with the rest and went down to breakfast, feeling thoroughly depressed, though doing his best to act normally.

万圣节前夕的早晨，哈利和大家一起醒来下楼去吃早饭，他的心绪恶劣极了，不过面上他尽量装得和平常一样。

A bunch of immature boys trying to impress you with how cool they are when they're really just a bunch of dorks.

一群稚嫩男生，面上假装成熟，实则是乳臭未干的呆瓜。

So a peace deal means the United States can leave with a structure in place that ostensibly keeps the country together.

因此，和平协议意味着美国可以在阿富汗面上拥有保持国家团结的体系后撤离。

Marine snow, detritus from the creatures swarming in the sunlit waters above.

海雪是海洋面上的生物产生的小型有机物碎屑。

There is more to Singapore than meets the eye.

新加坡的内涵远比面上看到的要丰富。

Apparently February is the trash heap of the calendar, just do whatever feels good.

面上，二月是被日历余下来的充数，但强迫症示感觉很好。

It is also the moment of maximum risk, because I know that there will be many people looking now at our apparent success, and beginning to wonder whether now is the time to go easy on those social distancing measures.

也是风险最大的时刻，因为我知道，现在会有许多人看着我们面上的成功，并开始怀疑现在是不是该放松那些社交疏离措施的时候了。