目前情况看起来还好。
This is because they make things look good!
这是因为它们使事物看起来漂亮了。
Your trajectory is set, and you know exactly where you are going, and from that point of view things look good.
你的轨道已经安置好,你清楚地知道你要去哪里,从那一方面来说事情看来还不错。
Despite God's promise of land and blessing, things don't look so good at the end of Genesis.
尽管有了上帝的许诺和庇佑,事情在《创世纪》末并不尽善尽美。
If we look back at that long, open-ended list of things that were good or bad, we'll find that mos of the things on that list are instrumentally good.
再看那个长长的没有结尾的,好的或坏的东西的名单,我们会发现上面很多东西,都是有好的利用价值。
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