face /feɪs/ CET4 TEM4

• 1. 

  N-COUNT 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. 脸

  例：

  He rolled down his window and stuck his face out.

  他摇下窗户，探出脸来。

  例：

  He was going red in the face and breathing with difficulty.

  他脸面发红，费力地喘着气。

  例：

  She had a beautiful face.

  她有张漂亮的脸。

• 2. 

  N-COUNT If your face is happy, sad, or serious, for example, the expression on your face shows that you are happy, sad, or serious. 面部表情

  例：

  He was walking around with a sad face.

  他四处走着，面带哀伤。

• 3. 

  N-COUNT The face of a cliff, mountain, or building is a vertical surface or side of it. (悬崖、山、建筑物的) 侧面

  例：

  Harrer was one of the first to climb the north face of the Eiger.

  哈勒是第一批登上艾格尔山北坡的人之一。

• 4. 

  N-COUNT The face of a clock or watch is the surface with the numbers or hands on it, which shows the time. 钟面; 表盘

  例：

  It was too dark to see the face of my watch.

  天太黑了，以致看不见我表盘上的时间。

• 5. 

  N-SING If you say that the face of an area, institution, or field of activity is changing, you mean its appearance or nature is changing. (地方、机构或活动区域的) 外观特征

  例：

  ...the changing face of the countryside.

  …该乡村变化着的面貌。

• 6. 

  N-SING 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. (活动、信仰或制度的) 方面

  例：

  Brothels, she insists, are the acceptable face of prostitution.

  妓院，她坚持说，是卖淫可接受的方面。

• 7. 

  N-UNCOUNT 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. 脸面

  例：

  They don't want a war, but they don't want to lose face.

  他们不想要战争，但他们也不想丢脸面。

  例：

  To cancel the airport would mean a loss of face for the present governor.

  取消这个机场对现任州长会意味着丢面子。

• 8. 

  → see also face value

• 9. 

  PHRASE If someone or something is face down, their face or front points downward. If they are face up, their face or front points upward. 面朝下/朝上

  例：

  All the time Stephen was lying face down and unconscious in the bathtub.

  斯蒂芬始终面朝下趴在浴缸里，不省人事。

• 10. 

  PHRASE If you come face to face with someone, you meet them and can talk to them or look at them directly. 面对面

  例：

  We were strolling into the town when we came face to face with Jacques Dubois.

  我们溜达进城时，迎面碰上了雅克·杜波依斯。

• 11. 

  PHRASE If you come face to face with a difficulty or reality, you cannot avoid it and have to deal with it. 正视 (困难或现实)

  例：

  Eventually, he came face to face with discrimination again.

  最后，他再次直面歧视。

• 12. 

  PHRASE If an action or belief flies in the face of accepted ideas or rules, it seems to completely oppose or contradict them. 完全违背

  例：

  ...scientific principles that seem to fly in the face of common sense.

  …一些看似完全有悖常识的科学原理。

• 13. 

  PHRASE 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. 面对

  例：

  The president has called for national unity in the face of the violent anti-government protests.

  总统面对激烈的反政府抗议呼吁全国团结一致。

• 14. 

  PHRASE 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. 做鬼脸

  例：

  Opening the door, she made a face at the musty smell.

  打开门，她对霉味做了个鬼脸。

• 15. 

  PHRASE 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. 乍看起来

  例：

  On the face of it that seems to make sense. But the figures don't add up.

  乍一看，那好像讲得通。但是数字对不上。

• 16. 

  PHRASE If you show your face somewhere, you go there and see people, although you are not welcome, are somewhat unwilling to go, or have not been there for some time. 露面

  例：

  If she shows her face again back in Massachusetts she'll find a warrant for her arrest waiting.

  如果她回马萨诸塞州再次露面的话，她会发现一张拘捕令正等着她。

• 17. 

  PHRASE If you manage to keep a straight face, you manage to look serious, although you want to laugh. 绷着的脸

  例：

  What went through Tom's mind I can't imagine, but he did manage to keep a straight face.

  汤姆心里在想什么我想像不出来，但是他确实装着一脸严肃。

• 18. 

  PHRASE If you say something to someone's face, you say it openly in their presence. 当着某人的面

  例：

  Her opponent called her a liar to her face.

  她的对手当着她的面叫她骗子。

• 19. 

  to shut the door in someone's face →see door

• 20. 

  to have egg on your face →see egg