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

他对自己外表感到满意也有深刻而不是表面上理由。

Life ossified his face ostensible , but not his heart.

表面上，生活硬化了他，没有硬化他心。

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

表面上是为了减轻痛苦毒品实际上给病人造成了莫大伤害。

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

他在通常时间被刷洗，然后和他儿子一起出发去追求他表面上使命。

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

阻止泛美航空和CSX公司合并将只会产生纯粹虚幻好处，同时损害本届政府和会表面目标。

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

现在聚集在嘉布遣会教堂听众是出于各种原因聚集，所有这些都表面上动机无关。

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.

于是又邀请了两三个人；是莫里斯·汤森德，尽管他绝不是表面上样子，却是宴会真正主角。

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·克莱担心西哥不可避免战争接踵而至，表面上原因是对新家边界争论。

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动机外，不可能推测出其他动机；第二天早上，他穿着他最好商务套装，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.

正在辩论动议表面上目是处理这场战役，它很快演变成对内维尔·张伯伦和他政府对战争总体处理讨论。

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.

对月光前景任何期望——这是他们朝圣表面原因——奈特让温柔女孩再次挽在他胳膊上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——一封最奇怪信；菲利普后来看到了它副本。它表面上目是抱怨图片明信片。