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是表面上的理由。

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.

表面上是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.

阻止泛美航空和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.

现在聚集在嘉布遣会教堂的听众是出于各种原因聚集的，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.

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

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， 表面上的目的是威慑敌人的攻击。

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，表面上的原因是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。