faces

NOUN USES 名词用法

1. N-COUNT 脸;面孔
   Your face is the front part of your head from your chin to the top of your forehead, where your mouth, eyes, nose, and other features are.
   1. He rolled down his window and stuck his face out...
      他摇下车窗，把头探了出去。
   2. A strong wind was blowing right in my face...
      一阵劲风迎面吹来。
   3. He was going red in the face and breathing with difficulty...
      他涨红了脸，费力地喘着气。
   4. She had a beautiful face.
      她容貌秀丽。
2. N-COUNT 面容;神色;神情
   If your face is happy, sad, or serious, for example, the expression on your face shows that you are happy, sad, or serious.
   1. He was walking around with a sad face...
      他四处走着，神色哀伤。
   2. The priest frowned into the light, his face puzzled.
      神父在亮光下皱起了眉头，一脸疑惑。
3. N-COUNT 崖面;山侧;(建筑物的)墙面
   The face of a cliff, mountain, or building is a vertical surface or side of it.
   1. ...the north face of the Eiger...
      艾格尔山北坡
   2. He scrambled 200 feet up the cliff face.
      他沿着崖面向上攀登了200英尺。
4. 钟面;表盘
   The face of a clock or watch is the surface with the numbers or hands on it, which shows the time.
5. N-SING (地区、机构或活动领域的)外观，面貌
   If you say that the face of an area, institution, or field of activity is changing, you mean its appearance or nature is changing.
   1. ...the changing face of the British countryside...
      英国乡村的日新月异
   2. This would change the face of Malaysian politics.
      这将改变马来西亚的政治面貌。
6. N-SING (活动，信仰、制度等的)方面
   If you refer to something as the particular face of an activity, belief, or system, you mean that it is one particular aspect of it, in contrast to other aspects.
   1. Brothels, she insists, are the acceptable face of prostitution...
      她坚持认为，妓院是卖淫可为人接受的一种形式。
   2. Who ever thought people would see Arsenal as the acceptable face of football?
      谁会想到人们会认为足球之道可如阿森纳队呢？
7. N-UNCOUNT 面子;脸面
   If you lose face, you do something which makes you appear weak and makes people respect or admire you less. If you do something in order to save face, you do it in order to avoid appearing weak and losing people's respect or admiration.
   1. England doesn't want a war but it doesn't want to lose face...
      英格兰不想打仗，但也不想丢面子。
   2. To cancel the airport would mean a loss of face for the present governor...
      撤销机场对现任州长来说将是件丢脸的事情。
   3. She claimed they'd been in love, but I sensed she was only saying this to save face.
      她宣称他们相恋了，但我感到她这么说只是想挽回面子。
8. See also: about-face face value poker face
9. PHRASE (计划之事出乎意料地)告吹，砸锅，泡汤
   If something that you have planned blows up in your face, it goes wrong unexpectedly, with the result that you suffer.
   1. Can't you see this could blow up in your face?
      你难道看不出这事会砸锅？
10. PHRASE 徒劳拼命地干;徒劳无功
    If you say that someone can do something until they are blue in the face, you are emphasizing that however much they do it, it will not make any difference.
    1. You can criticise him until you're blue in the face, but you'll never change his personality.
       即使你苦口婆心地批评他，也改变不了他的个性。
11. PHRASE 面朝下／仰面
    If someone or something is face down, their face or front points downwards. If they are face up, their face or front points upwards.
    1. All the time Stephen was lying face down and unconscious in the bath tub...
       斯蒂芬一直脸朝下趴在浴缸里，不省人事。
    2. Charles laid down his cards face up.
       查尔斯将手中的牌摊了出来。
12. PHRASE (表示强调或夸张)全世界
    You can use the expression 'on the face of the earth' to mean 'in the whole world', when you are emphasizing a statement that you are making or making a very exaggerated statement.
    1. No human being on the face of the earth could do anything worse than what he did.
       世界上再没有人能做出比他更坏的事情来。
13. PHRASE 绝迹;灭绝
    If you say that something will be wiped off the face of the earth or disappear from the face of the earth, you mean that it will stop existing.
    1. If a nuclear war breaks out, every living thing will be wiped off the face of the Earth.
       如果爆发核战争，地球上的所有生物都将灭绝。
14. PHRASE 面对面;直面
    If you come face to face with someone, you meet them and can talk to them or look at them directly.
    1. We were strolling into the town when we came face to face with Jacques DuBois...
       我们信步向镇子走去，迎面碰上雅克·杜波依斯。
    2. It was the first face-to-face meeting between the two men.
       这是两人首次当面会晤。
15. PHRASE 面对,面临(困难或现实)
    If you come face to face with a difficulty or reality, you cannot avoid it and have to deal with it.
    1. Eventually, he came face to face with discrimination again...
       最终，他又一次遭遇歧视。
    2. I was gradually being brought face to face with the fact that I had very little success.
       我渐渐开始面对这个事实，那就是我几乎一事无成。
16. PHRASE 完全违背;与(公认的观念或规则)相冲突
    If an action or belief flies in the face of accepted ideas or rules, it seems to completely oppose or contradict them.
    1. ...scientific principles that seem to fly in the face of common sense...
       似乎有悖常识的科学原理
    2. He said that the decision flew in the face of natural justice.
       他说这个决定有悖天理。
17. PREP-PHRASE 面对;在…面前
    If you take a particular action or attitude in the face of a problem or difficulty, you respond to that problem or difficulty in that way.
    1. The Prime Minister has called for national unity in the face of the violent anti-government protests...
       面对强烈的反政府抗议，首相呼吁全国团结一致。
    2. Roosevelt was defiant in the face of the bad news.
       对这个坏消息，罗斯福毫不理会。
18. PHRASE 公然嘲笑;公开蔑视
    If someone laughs in your face, they are openly disrespectful towards you.
    1. With juveniles under eighteen, there's little we can do. We can't keep them in custody. They just laugh in your face.
       对18岁以下的青少年，我们几乎无计可施。我们不能拘留他们。他们只会公然嘲笑你。
19. PHRASE 不高兴的神情;严肃的神情;板起的脸
    If you have a long face, you look very unhappy or serious.
    1. He came to me with a very long face.
       他拉长了脸来找我。
20. PHRASE 做鬼脸,扮鬼脸（英国英语中亦使用pull a face）
    If you make a face, you show a feeling such as dislike or disgust by putting an exaggerated expression on your face, for example by sticking out your tongue. In British English, you can also say pull a face .
    1. Opening the door, she made a face at the musty smell...
       她打开门后闻到一股难闻的霉味，不禁做了个鬼脸。
    2. Kathryn pulled a face at Thomas behind his back.
       凯瑟琳在托马斯身后冲他做了个鬼脸。
21. PHRASE 乍看起来;最初看来
    You say on the face of it when you are describing how something seems when it is first considered, in order to suggest that people's opinion may change when they know or think more about the subject.
    1. On the face of it that seems to make sense. But the figures don't add up...
       乍一看,似乎讲得通，但这些数字对不起来。
    2. It is, on the face of it, difficult to see how the West could radically change its position.
       初看起来，很难理解西方为何会立场突变。
22. PHRASE （对坏情况）显得满不在乎，做出无所谓的样子(美国英语中亦作 put on a good face)
    If you put a brave face on a bad situation or put on a brave face, you try not to show how disappointed or upset you are about the situation. In American English you can also say put on a good face.
    1. Friends will see you are putting on a brave face and might assume you've got over your grief...
       朋友们看到你一脸轻松，也许会以为你已经走出悲伤。
    2. Scientists are putting a good face on the troubles.
       科学家们对这些困难似乎不以为意。
23. PHRASE (尤指错误地)反对
    You can say that someone has set their face against something to indicate that they are opposed to it, especially when you want to suggest that they are wrong.
    1. This Government has set its face against putting up income tax.
       这届政府执意反对提高所得税。
24. PHRASE (不受欢迎地、不情愿地或再次)露面，到场
    If you show your face somewhere, you go there and see people, although you are not welcome, are rather unwilling to go, or have not been there for some time.
    1. If she shows her face again back in Massachusetts she'll find a warrant for her arrest waiting...
       如果她重又在马萨诸塞州露面，等待她的将是一纸拘捕令。
    2. I felt I ought to show my face at her father's funeral.
       我觉得我应该去参加她父亲的葬礼。
25. PHRASE 强绷笑脸
    If you manage to keep a straight face, you manage to look serious, although you want to laugh.
    1. What went through Tom's mind I can't imagine, but he did manage to keep a straight face...
       不知道汤姆想到了啥，但他确实忍住没笑。
    2. You have to wonder how anyone could say that seriously and with a straight face.
       你一定会惊奇怎么会有人能绷着脸、一本正经地说出那些话。
26. PHRASE 当着…的面
    If you say something to someone's face you say it openly in their presence.
    1. Her opponent called her a liar to her face.
       她的对手当着她面说她是撒谎精。
27. PHRASE 脸上带着明显的…表情
    If a feeling is written all over your face or is written across your face, it is very obvious to other people from your expression.
    1. Relief and gratitude were written all over his face...
       他一脸释然与感激。
    2. I could just see the pain written across her face.
       我都可以看出他脸上写满了痛苦。
28. to shut the door in someone's face → see: door

VERB AND PHRASAL VERB USES 动词和短语动词用法

1. VERB 面向;面对;朝着
   If someone or something faces a particular thing, person, or direction, they are positioned opposite them or are looking in that direction.
   1. They stood facing each other...
      他们面对面站着。
   2. The garden faces south.
      花园朝南。
2. VERB 面对;面向
   If you face someone or something, you turn so that you are looking at them.
   1. She stood up from the table and faced him...
      她从桌前站起来，面对着他。
   2. Stand up. Face the wall.
      起立，面向墙壁。
3. VERB (不得不)面对，正视
   If you have to face a person or group, you have to stand or sit in front of them and talk to them, although it may be difficult and unpleasant.
   1. Christie looked relaxed and calm as he faced the press...
      克里斯蒂面对记者，显得镇定自若。
   2. He was hauled in to face the judge.
      他被带了进来，面对法官。
4. VERB 面临;面对;摆在…面前
   If you face or are faced with something difficult or unpleasant, or if it faces you, it is going to affect you and you have to deal with it.
   1. Williams faces life in prison if convicted of attempted murder...
      如被判谋杀未遂，威廉斯将面临终身监禁。
   2. The immense difficulties facing European businessmen in Russia were only too evident...
      在俄罗斯的欧洲商人所面临的巨大困难是显而易见的。
   3. We are faced with a serious problem.
      我们面临着一个严重问题。
5. VERB (使)直面，接受，正视(真理或事实等)
   If you face the truth or face the facts, you accept that something is true. If you face someone with the truth or with the facts, you try to make them accept that something is true.
   1. Although your heart is breaking, you must face the truth that a relationship has ended...
      虽然你伤透了心，但也必须面对现实，一段感情已结束了。
   2. He accused the Government of refusing to face facts about the economy...
      他指责政府不能在经济问题上面对现实。
   3. He called a family conference and faced them with the problems.
      他开了一个家庭会议，让他们正视这些问题。
   4. Face up to means the same as face .
      face up to 同 face
   5. I have grown up now and I have to face up to my responsibilities...
      我已长大成人，必须担负起自己的责任。
   6. They were having to face up to the fact that they had lost everything.
      他们必须正视他们已经一无所有这个事实。
6. VERB 接受;容忍
   If you cannot face something, you do not feel able to do it because it seems so difficult or unpleasant.
   1. I couldn't face the prospect of spending a Saturday night there, so I decided to press on...
      想到周六晚上要在那儿度过我就受不了，于是我决定要抓紧。
   2. My children want me with them for Christmas Day, but I can't face it...
      我的孩子们想要我跟他们一起过圣诞节，但我办不到。
   3. I couldn't face seeing anyone.
      我无法见任何人。
7. PHRASE 让我们面对现实;承认(事实)吧
   You use the expression 'let's face it' when you are stating a fact or making a comment about something which you think the person you are talking to may find unpleasant or be unwilling to admit.
   1. She was always attracted to younger men. But, let's face it, who is not?
      她总是会被较年轻的男人吸引。不过，说实话，谁又不是呢？
8. face the music → see: music

1. It was worth it to see all those smiling faces.
   看到所有那些微笑的面庞，这么做是值得的。
2. Smiles, nods, and cheerful faces added to the general gaiety.
   微笑、点头和喜洋洋的脸庞使喜庆的气氛变得更浓了。
3. Children, many with their faces daubed with paint, ran among the vehicles.
   孩子们在车辆中间跑来跑去，许多脸上都涂着油彩。
4. If they take this game lightly they could end up with egg on their faces.
   如果他们对这场比赛掉以轻心，结果很可能会出丑。
5. The garden faces south.
   花园朝南。
6. They are already familiar faces on our TV screens.
   他们已经是我们电视屏幕上的熟面孔了。
7. Friends stood at the foot of the bed, looking at her with serious faces.
   朋友们站在床脚处，神情严肃地看着她。
8. The faces of the two conspirators gave the game away.
   这两个共谋者的表情泄漏了秘密。
9. Many of them were policemen, with their heavy faces and cropped hair.
   他们中有很多人表情阴郁，留着平头，一看就是警察。
10. He now faces another crisis in his helter-skelter existence.
    他乱糟糟的生活中现在又面临着另一个危机。
11. The government was ill-prepared for the problems it now faces
    对于当前面临的问题，政府准备不足。
12. The economy still faces intractable problems.
    经济仍然面临着一些棘手的问题。
13. The new management team faces some knotty problems.
    新的管理团队面临一些棘手的问题。
14. They wash their hands, arms and faces, and lastly, they wash their feet.
    他们洗了手、胳膊和脸，最后脚也洗了。
15. She saw no pity in their faces.
    她从他们的脸上看不到慈悲。
16. Tears poured down both our faces
    我俩都泪流满面。
17. There was a sincere expression of friendliness on both their faces.
    他们俩的脸上都流露出真挚友好的表情。
18. It was a room filled with sad, sober faces
    房间里坐满了人，大家都一脸的忧伤和严肃。
19. They jogged in silence a while, faces lowered, out of step
    他们低着头，一言不发地慢跑了一会儿，步伐也不一致。
20. The film faces stiff competition for the Best Film nomination
    这部电影在角逐最佳影片提名时面临着激烈的竞争。
21. He glanced furtively at the stolid faces of the two detectives.
    他偷偷地瞄了一下两名侦探面无表情的脸孔。
22. Tears streamed down their faces
    泪水顺着他们的脸颊流下。
23. There was unrestrained joy on the faces of the people
    人们的脸上洋溢着无尽的欢乐。
24. China faces the Pacific on the east.
    中国东临太平洋。
25. The children's faces beamed with happy smiles.
    孩子们的脸上充溢着幸福的笑容。
26. This house faces south.
    这所房子坐北朝南。
27. The spring wind caressed our faces.
    春风扑面。
28. The window faces to the east.
    那个窗户朝东。
29. The house faces the south.
    这房子面南坐北。