take something at face value

BELIEVEto accept a situation or accept what someone says, without thinking there may be a hidden meaning 相信某事物的表面

You shouldn’t always take his remarks at face value.

他的话你不应该总是只听表面意思。

Examples from the Corpus

take something at face value• The newspapers have taken this propaganda at face value, without questioning it.• But now, a hundred years on, certain factions persist in taking it at face value.• And he no longer took things at face value.• Because Kate, for all her faults real and imagined, was the only person ever to take him at face value.

→ take something at face value at face value(1)

单词	take something at face value
释义	take something at face value take something at face value BELIEVEto accept a situation or accept what someone says, without thinking there may be a hidden meaning 相信某事物的表面 You shouldn’t always take his remarks at face value. 他的话你不应该总是只听表面意思。 Examples from the Corpus take something at face value• The newspapers have taken this propaganda at face value, without questioning it.• But now, a hundred years on, certain factions persist in taking it at face value.• And he no longer took things at face value.• Because Kate, for all her faults real and imagined, was the only person ever to take him at face value. → take something at face value at face value(1)
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