take at face value

take (someone or something) at face value

To accept or trust someone or something based only on an initial or superficial presentation, without taking further proof, verification, or investigation into account. I've learned never to take corporate PR statements at face value. It's hard to take Jeff at face value when he's been caught lying in the past.See also: face, take, value

take someone or something at face value

to accept someone or something just as it appears; to believe that the way things appear is the way they really are. He means what he says. You have to take him at face value. I take everything he says at face value.See also: face, take, value

take something at face value

to accept something exactly the way it appears to be. I don't know whether I can take her story at face value, but I will assume that she is not lying. The committee took the report at face value and approved the suggested changes.See also: face, take, value

take somebody/something at face ˈvalue

accept that somebody/something is exactly as they/it first appears: You can’t take everything she says at face value. ♢ A diplomat learns not to take everything at face value.See also: face, somebody, something, take, value

take at face value, to

To accept something or someone at its apparent worth. The transfer of face value from monetary currency to other matters took place in the nineteenth century. “He must take advertisements of publishers at their face value and regard them as what they claim to be,” wrote J. L. Whitney (The Literary World, 1883).See also: face, take

单词	take at face value
释义	take at face value take (someone or something) at face value To accept or trust someone or something based only on an initial or superficial presentation, without taking further proof, verification, or investigation into account. I've learned never to take corporate PR statements at face value. It's hard to take Jeff at face value when he's been caught lying in the past.See also: face, take, value take someone or something at face value to accept someone or something just as it appears; to believe that the way things appear is the way they really are. He means what he says. You have to take him at face value. I take everything he says at face value.See also: face, take, value take something at face value to accept something exactly the way it appears to be. I don't know whether I can take her story at face value, but I will assume that she is not lying. The committee took the report at face value and approved the suggested changes.See also: face, take, value take somebody/something at face ˈvalue accept that somebody/something is exactly as they/it first appears: You can’t take everything she says at face value. ♢ A diplomat learns not to take everything at face value.See also: face, somebody, something, take, value take at face value, to To accept something or someone at its apparent worth. The transfer of face value from monetary currency to other matters took place in the nineteenth century. “He must take advertisements of publishers at their face value and regard them as what they claim to be,” wrote J. L. Whitney (The Literary World, 1883).See also: face, take
随便看	dimethyldithiocarbamate dimethyl dodecyl amido betaine dimethyl ethanol amine dimethylethanolamine dimethyl ether dimethylether dimethyl ether of tetraethylene glycol dimethylethylamine dimethylethylene dimethyl formamide dimethylformamide dimethyl fumarate dimethyl germanium dimethylgloxime dimethyl glutarate dimethylglycine dimethylglycine dehydrogenase deficiency dimethylglycine oxidase dimethylglyoxime dimethylhydrazine dimethyl iminodiacetic acid dimethylisopropanolamine dimethyl itaconate dimethyl ketone dimethyl mercury