The most obvious explanation is not always the correct one. 最明显的解释并不总是正确的解释。

‘I’ d have thought that was fairly obvious,’ James retorted. “我一直以为那是显而易见的。”詹姆斯反驳道。

a glaringly obvious mistake 非常明显的错误

for obvious reasons For obvious reasons, I won’ t go into details. 出于显而易见的原因，我不想详细说明了。

it is obvious (that) It’ s pretty obvious he’ s crazy about you. 他为你神魂颠倒，这是非常显而易见的。

+to It was becoming obvious to her parents that she needed help. 她需要帮助，这一点对她父母来说已变得越来越明显了。

+from It was obvious from Eleanor’ s voice that she disliked him. 从埃莉诺的声音里可以明显地听出她不喜欢他。

I couldn’ t resist the obvious comment. 我忍不住作了这番平淡无奇的议论。

state the obvious (=express something that is already well-known) You have a talent for stating the obvious. 说出明显多余的大实话

To state the obvious, if we don’ t take precautions now, we’ ll suffer for it later. 说句明摆着的话，如果我们现在不采取预防措施，以后会吃苦头的。

Do you have to be so obvious? 你非得这么直白吗？

Making an apology was the obvious thing to do. 道歉是最明智之举。

obvious choice His experience made him the obvious choice for the position. 他的经验使他成为这一职务明摆着的人选。

obvious explanation There’ s a perfectly obvious explanation for this trend. 这一趋势有一种极合理的解释。

obvious solution There was no immediately obvious solution that we could think of. 我们想不出能马上合理解决问题的方法。