At a first glance it's not visible that the furniture hides a relatively large storage place inside due to the optical illusion of the ornaments.

乍一看，由于对这个装饰品的视觉错觉，储藏物的里面隐藏着一个相当大的储藏空间并不明显。

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At a first glance, things appeared to be exceedingly prosperous in this little tributary kingdom-whose lord was king bagdemagus-as compared with the state of things in my own region.

猛一瞧，在巴格狄玛格斯王所统治的这个附庸小国，比起我自己那地方的情形来，一切都似乎是达到了繁荣发达的极点。

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At first glance, the town is a typical dying mill center.

乍一看，这个城镇是一个典型的没落磨坊中心区。

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At a first glance, the numbers do not look encouraging.

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Again, pset one will walk you through this and you'll get familiar with this stuff, even though it looks a little arcane at first glance.

此外，习题集1将带你通过这个,你将熟悉这些东西，即使第一眼它看起来是比较晦涩的。

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While this may seem like a good idea at first glance, from a practical standpoint it may interfere unnecessarily in the right to contract and could serve as an impediment to international commerce.

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That's at first glance a visible positive, but since at least two of the Big Three are already on taxpayer life support, won't our economy suffer over the long term due to the waste of human, financial and physical capital on economic activity that private investors will no longer fund?

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At first glance, a risk assessment seems like a low-ROI effort.

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