It is not enough to simply interview people and take at face value what they say.

简单地采访并采纳人们表达中的表面价值远远不够。

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But information and knowledge do not equal wisdom, and it is too easy for non-experts to take at face value statements made confidently by voices of authority.

但是信息和知识并不等于智慧，这对于非专业人士来说，根据表面情况作出自信的权威判断未免太容易了。

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You shouldn't take anything she says at face value.

她的话你绝对不能只看表面。

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And even if there were, it might be hard to take at face value because of a phenomenon known as "schedule padding".

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Rather than take at face value assertions by extremists that their interpretation of Islamic law is eternal and unchanging, Muslims and Westerners must reject these false claims and join in the struggle to support a pluralistic and tolerant understanding of Islam.

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But Whitmarsh has laid the responsibility at Ryan's door and we have to take him at face value.

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