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他那番话不过是表面文章。He was merely paying lip service.

他政治上的承诺只是表面文章。H is political commitment is only skin- deep.

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跟律师乱搞不过是表面文章而已。Boinking the lawyer is just icing on the cake.

但这只是掩盖缺乏真正改革的表面文章。But this is simply eyewash to cover the lack of real reform.

虽然卡尔扎伊总统是普什图人，但那只是表面文章。Yes, President Hamid Karzai is a Pashtun, but that's window dressing.

第二十条必须懂得表面文章的建设性。The twentieth rule is that you must understand that eyewash is constructive.

沮丧的人继续沮丧，那些都是表面文章”。After this event, people who are depressed will get depressed again. It's all superficial.

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只有细节才能使市场确信确实存在一个计划,而不只是一个没有实质内容的表面文章.Detail will be needed to convince markets a plan really exists and this isn't just a superficial accord with no substance.

工党少数民族事务副发言人霍建强上周五批评说，政府对超级奥克兰市议题的操作混乱不堪、尽作一些陈腐的表面文章。The Government's handling of Auckland Super City issues are shambolic and reek of tokenism says Labour Associate Ethnic Affairs Spokesperson Raymond Huo.

“但是他们在这儿的所作所为更像一个投机者，”他说“他们仅仅关心表面文章，玩一场游戏，消失，然后两年后回来。"But they come through here like carpetbaggers, " he added. " They just kind of show up on the scene, do a game, disappear, and then come back two years later.

中国世界经济研究所经济学家桑百川说，这些数字只是表面文章，因为中国消费者的实际购买力要远远落后于日本。Beijing economist Sang Baichuang says the figures are good for bragging rights, but in terms of purchasing power, he says Chinese consumers lag well behind those in Japan.

人类需要理解，我们的问题都是我们自己创造出来的，如果我们要解决这些问题，天主教所谓的慈善仅仅做表面文章，几乎与事无补。Man needs to understand that our problems are our own creations, and if we want to get rid of them this superficial Catholic so-called charity is not going to be of much help.

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还有人说，关于纳粹罪行现在的处理手法只是表面文章，年轻人最终会表示出对这个话题的厌倦，也许会以巧妙委婉的方式来表达。Others say that the crimes are dealt with only superficially, and that the young will eventually, and perhaps in carefully guarded ways, express their exhaustion with the topic.

若形而下地只死学传统，只能做些就事论事的表面文章，这种情况在今天很有些普遍性。On the contrary, one can only superficially deal with tradition by considering it as it stands if tradition is physically followed by slavish imitation. Such a situation is quite common today.