"To pull a face" is an idiomatic expression.

“愁眉苦脸”是一个习惯表达法。

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Tip: to determine your true shape, pull your hair off your forehead with one hand, look into a mirror and trace the outline of your face on the glass with lipstick.

小贴士：先要确定好自己的脸型，单手把遮住前额的发丝拢开，一边照着镜子一边在上面用口红把您的脸型轮廓勾画下来。

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Once I asked a roomful of supper guests who, if anyone, felt any strong pull to any certain spot on the face of the earth.

曾经我问一屋子共进晚餐的客人们，有谁，感觉到被地球表面上的某个地方强烈的牵引着。

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With so much communication via email these days, it can be hard to pull the trigger and initiate a face-to-face conversation when you sense that an online interaction is becoming too heated or simply too difficult to do well online.

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Condit was initially due to face Rory MacDonald but the Montreal fighter had to pull out with a neck injury.

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Do you face a bit of an uphill battle there in trying to pull the federal courts into this in trying to determine the boundaries or the limits on presidential authority?

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