Some people took the movie at face value: the zany antics of Indian college kids.

一些人只看到这部电影的表面价值：印度大学生们的滑稽表演。

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Some took the movie at face value: the zany antics of Indian college kids.

一些人只看到这部电影的皮毛：印度大学生的滑稽表演。

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She took his stories at face value and did not know he was joking.

她把他的话当真，不知道他是在开玩笑。

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All too often, British managers spoke in euphemisms that their German counterparts took at face value.

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Analysts who took the negative news coverage at face value and predicted weakening results for the defense sector last year turned out to be dead wrong.

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It's still a work in progress - and a bit of a disappointment if you took Mrs Gillan's answer to Jonathan Edwards at face value.

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