face

高中CET4CET6TOEFL考研IELTS

英[fe?s]
美[fe?s]

基本釋義

n.
臉(面),面貌; 山側; 表盤; 方面
v.
面對,面臨; 承認; 處理

詞性變化

實用例句

Roosevelt was defiant in the face of the bad news.

對這個壞消息,羅斯福毫不理會。

With juveniles under eighteen, there's little we can do. We can't keep them in custody. They just laugh in your face.

對18歲以下的青少年,我們幾乎無計可施。我們不能拘留他們。他們只會公然嘲笑你。

He came to me with a very long face.

他拉長了臉來找我。

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

她打開門后聞到一股難聞的霉味,不禁做了個鬼臉。

Kathryn pulled a face at Thomas behind his back.

凱瑟琳在托馬斯身后沖他做了個鬼臉。

He said that the decision flew in the face of natural justice.

他說這個決定有悖天理。

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

面對強烈的反政府抗議,首相呼吁全國團結一致。

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

我們信步向鎮(zhèn)子走去,迎面碰上雅克·杜波依斯。

It was the first face-to-face meeting between the two men.

這是兩人首次當面會晤。

Eventually, he came face to face with discrimination again...

最終,他又一次遭遇歧視。

I was gradually being brought face to face with the fact that I had very little success.

我漸漸開始面對這個事實,那就是我?guī)缀跻皇聼o成。

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

似乎有悖常識的科學原理

...the north face of the Eiger...

艾格爾山北坡

He scrambled 200 feet up the cliff face.

他沿著崖面向上攀登了200英尺。

...the changing face of the British countryside...

英國鄉(xiāng)村的日新月異

This would change the face of Malaysian politics.

這將改變馬來西亞的政治面貌。

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

她堅持認為,妓院是賣淫可為人接受的一種形式。

Who ever thought people would see Arsenal as the acceptable face of football?

誰會想到人們會認為足球之道可如阿森納隊呢?

England doesn't want a war but it doesn't want to lose face...

英格蘭不想打仗,但也不想丟面子。

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

撤銷機場對現(xiàn)任州長來說將是件丟臉的事情。

Can't you see this could blow up in your face?

你難道看不出這事會砸鍋?

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評他,也改變不了他的個性。

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

斯蒂芬一直臉朝下趴在浴缸里,不省人事。

Charles laid down his cards face up.

查爾斯將手中的牌攤了出來。

No human being on the face of the earth could do anything worse than what he did.

世界上再沒有人能做出比他更壞的事情來。

If a nuclear war breaks out, every living thing will be wiped off the face of the Earth.

如果爆發(fā)核戰(zhàn)爭,地球上的所有生物都將滅絕。

The priest frowned into the light, his face puzzled.

神父在亮光下皺起了眉頭,一臉疑惑。

He was walking around with a sad face...

他四處走著,神色哀傷。

A strong wind was blowing right in my face...

一陣勁風迎面吹來。

He rolled down his window and stuck his face out...

他搖下車窗,把頭探了出去。

真題例句

Toilet paper manufacturers are facing a great challenge in promoting its sales.

出自-2017年6月閱讀原文

Steering through change and facing obstacles brings us face to face with our fears.

出自-2017年6月閱讀原文

I had spent two years cultivating this community, and it had become successful very fast, within six months, but I was facing the prospect of losing it all.

出自-2017年6月閱讀原文

By naming her fears and facing them head-on, Leah gained confidence.

出自-2017年6月閱讀原文

The researchers also note that dogs scan faces as a whole to sense how people are feeling, instead of focusing on a given feature.

出自-2017年6月聽力原文

His teacher said if he went on like that, his face would get stuck when the winds changed.

出自-2017年6月聽力原文

He faces trial on several charges.

出自-2017年6月聽力原文

Brown? You know, Ben’s given up making those terrible faces he used to make.

出自-2017年6月聽力原文

Facing an 8.3-billion-dollar budget deficit this year, closing post offices is one of several proposals the Postal Service has put forth recently to cut costs.

出自-2016年12月聽力原文

One day, when he went to get his 7-year-old son from soccer practice, his kid greeted him with a downcast face and a sad voice.

出自-2015年12月閱讀原文

His face went down lower and lower, and then, with complete joy he called out, Dad.

出自-2015年12月閱讀原文

Some scientistsmaintain that the changes we are seeing fall within the range of random (無規(guī)律的) variation—some years are cold, others warm, and we have just had an unremarkable string of warm yearsrecently—but that is becoming an increasingly rare interpretation in the face of continued and increasing warm conditions.

出自-2014年6月閱讀原文

Even if they know what the company is up to, they still have no idea what they're paying for Face book because people don't really know what their personal data is worth.

出自-2012年6月閱讀原文

I have no money or insurance to get professional help; I can't even pay my mortgage (抵押貸款) and face losing everything.

出自-2010年6月閱讀原文

He bought an alarm clock with a pig face.

出自-2013年6月聽力原文

A youth with a distinguishing mark on his face.

出自-2010年12月聽力原文

What is the danger facing people who live only for today?

出自-2010年12月聽力原文

his teacher said if he went on like that, his face would get stuck when the winds changed.

2017年6月四級真題(第二套)聽力 Section B

James said that waves in the San Francisco Bay hitting him in the face 30 minutes into his swim made him want to give up.

2019年6月四級真題(第一套)聽力 Section A

Known for low-priced general goods, Woolworths has struggled in the face of competition from supermarkets expanding beyond groceries and a new generation of internet retailers.

2015年12月四級真題(第一套)聽力 Section A

Sometimes, however, they will face a choice between lives.

2018年12月四級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section C

Starting last Saturday, chains big enough to fall under the rule will face penalties of up to 2, 000 dollars for not showing calorie information in a prominent spot on their menus, preferably next to the price.

2016年6月四級真題(第一套)聽力 Section A

The alternative, he suggested, was to face the prospect of becoming another Palo Alto, California, where outsize stress on teenage students is believed to have contributed to a number of suicides in the last six years.

2018年6月四級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section B

We found that women are doubly vulnerable to marital break-up in the face of illness, Karraker said.

2019年6月四級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section C

For example, the United Nations Children's Fund estimates that some 11 million children in Africa face hunger, disease, and water shortages as a result of the strongest El Ni o weather phenomenon in decades.

出自-2017年6月閱讀原文

2% in November and December at stores open more than a year, a disappointing holiday season performance that capped a difficult year for a department store chain facing wideranging challenges.

出自-2017年6月閱讀原文

You will face problems in the aging of the population that have never been faced before.

出自-2017年6月聽力原文

Perhaps in the face of impersonal and intimidating globalization, a young person's family feels more like a friendly haven than an oppressive trap.

出自-2016年6月閱讀原文

Manufacturers of products that claim to be environmentally friendly will face tighter rules on how they are advertised to consumers under changes proposed by the Federal Trade Commission.

出自-2016年6月閱讀原文

Facing water shortages and escalating fertilizer costs, farmers in developing countries are using raw sewage to irrigate and fertilize nearly 49 million acres of cropland, according to a new report—and it may not be a bad thing.

出自-2016年6月閱讀原文

And that, fundamentally, is why claims that we face huge structural problems have been multiplying: they offer a reason to do nothing about the mass unemployment that is crippling our economy and our society.

出自-2016年6月閱讀原文

Cognitive decline is the loss of ability to learn new skills, or recall words, names, and faces that is most common as we age.

出自-2016年6月聽力原文

There's a lot for students to complain about: the repayment threshold for paying back loans will be frozen for five years, meaning that lower-paid graduates have to start repaying their loans; and maintenance grants have been replaced by loans, meaning that students from poorer backgrounds face higher debt than those with wealthier parents.

出自-2016年12月閱讀原文

The purpose of today’s lecture, as you have seen from the title and the abstract, is to examine in more detail the problems facing small- and medium-sized enterprises which arise at least in part from having to adapt to rapid advances in technology.

出自-2016年12月聽力原文

To make matters worse, these schools are ill-equipped to graduate these students— young adults who face specific challenges and obstacles.

出自-2015年12月閱讀原文

There is no doubt that spaceflight entails risks, and to pioneer a new mode of travel is to face those risks, and to reduce them with the benefit of hard-won experience.

出自-2015年12月閱讀原文

It fails to prepare students to face the challenges of modem times.

出自-2015年12月閱讀原文

If the Thames were lapping around Big Ben, Londoners would face up to the problem of emissions pretty quickly.

出自-2015年12月閱讀原文

Doctors can face some grim trade-offs.

出自-2015年12月閱讀原文

Professor of Sociology at WashingtonUniversity, has written numerous articles and books on the issues facing older Americans in our graying society for the past 15 years.

出自-2015年12月聽力原文

"An ultimate face recognition algorithm should perform with billions of people in a dataset," the researchers wrote.

2018年6月六級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section C

1 million breeding pairs - will be forced to relocate their breeding grounds, or face extinction by 2100.

2019年12月六級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section C

And unemployed workers face difficult odds.

2016年6月六級真題(第一套)聽力 Section C

As trees outgrow their ideal habitats in the face of climate change, these flying ecosystem engineers could be a big help in replanting trees.

2016年12月六級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section A

For example, the United Nations Children's Fund estimates that some 11 million children in Africa face hunger, disease, and water shortages as a result of the strongest El nio weather phenomenon in decades.

2017年6月六級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section B

give the right computer a massive database of faces, and it can process what it sees—then recognize a face it's told to find—with remarkable speed and precision.

2018年6月六級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section C

Just the thought of strapping on your roller-skates brings a smile to your face.

2016年6月六級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section A

Let's face it, it wasn't too long ago that the idea of working from anywhere and at anytime was some form of a distant utopian dream,and yet now we can perform almost any office-based task from any location in the world as long as we have access to the in

2017年12月六級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section C

Once upon a time, Americans thought that if they work hard enough even in the face of adversity, they would be rewarded with success.

2018年12月六級真題(第一套)聽力 Section C

Or do they face more challenges than any previous generation?

2019年12月六級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section B

Our second study is about music, for this study researchers play music to babies through speakers located on either side of a human face.

2019年12月六級真題(第一套)聽力 Section C

Some have 26 vanished from the face of the earth, others are dying slowly, but all have 27 undergone changes as they have come into contact with an 28 expanding machine civilization.

2016年12月六級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section A

Telepresence robots such as MantaroBot, Vgo, and giraff can be controlled through a computer, smartphone, or tablet, allowing family members or doctors to remotely monitor patients or Skype them, often via a screen where the robot's "face" would be.

2018年12月六級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section C

The robotics revolution is set to bring humans face to face with an old fear—man-made creations as smart and capable as we are but without a moral compass.

2016年6月六級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section A

Then there were the face slimming rollers that were said to improve your blood circulation and make your face smaller.

2019年6月六級真題(第一套)聽力 Section C

They waited until the babies got bored and inverted their gaze from the face.

2019年12月六級真題(第一套)聽力 Section C

This mood switch made no difference to the three-month-olds; but for the nine-month-olds, it was enough to renew their interest and they started looking again in the direction of the face.

2019年12月六級真題(第一套)聽力 Section C

To make matters worse, these schools are ill-equipped to graduate these students — young adults who face specific challenges and obstacles.

2015年12月六級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section B

We spend a great deal of time studying history, Hawking said, which, let's face it, is mostly the history of stupidity.

2019年6月六級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section C

Anytime you find the world waving a chair in your face, remember this: all you need to do is focus on one thing?

2014年高考英語全國卷1 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文

Are you facing a situation that looks impossible to fix?

2014年高考英語全國卷1 語法填空 原文

Building owners were faced with a choice: either change the first floors of their buildings into basements, and the second stories into main floors, or hoist the entire buildings to meet the new street level.

2015年高考英語湖南卷 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文

Everyone needs a hand when faced with challenges.

2015年高考英語重慶卷 閱讀理解 閱讀A 選項

Finally, we faced the number one team in the state.

2018年高考英語天津卷 完形填空 原文

From my hotel room window, I could see a large advertisement board with his face on it: Jason, the great magician.

2016年高考英語浙江卷(10月) 語法填空 原文

He really put a smile on my face.

2015年高考英語江蘇卷 完形填空 原文

He was unconscious and as I looked at his face, something occurred to me.

2018年高考英語全國卷2 完形填空 原文

I turned around and saw a pleasant woman with a big smile on her face waving to wish me a safe trip.

2016年高考英語全國卷2 完形填空 原文

If a student has kept a cat in his room for a week since the warning, he will face the student court.

2015年高考英語天津卷 閱讀理解 閱讀A 題設

If students rely on administrators to regulate their social behavior and thinking pattern, they are not facing the challenge of finding an identity within a larger and complex community.

2016年高考英語北京卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文

If we are not careful, then, we could face a kind of global chess match against very determined, super intelligent machines whose objectives conflict with our own, with the real world as the chessboard.

2017年高考英語北京卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文

In what sense are people similar to a lion facing a chair?

2014年高考英語全國卷1 閱讀理解 閱讀C 題設

It also asked mothers about the challenges they face, with 80 percent making emotional demand as the hardest thing about motherhood.

2015年高考英語四川卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文

Joe Simpson and Simon Yates were the first people to climb the west face of the siula grande in the andes mountains.

2014年高考英語全國卷2 完形填空 原文

Like those early days for dad, I faced lots of rejections.

2017年高考英語天津卷 閱讀表達 原文

Many Chinese brands, having developed their reputations over centuries, are facing new challenges from the modern market.

2017年高考英語江蘇卷 單項填空 原文

Maybe you are facing an impossible situation.

2014年高考英語全國卷1 語法填空 原文

More than that, however, he was happy to see the big smile on his mother's face.

2015年高考英語北京卷 完形填空 原文

Nervously facing challenges, I know I will whisper to myself the two simple words "be yourself".

2019年高考英語北京卷 語法填空 原文

New brain research suggests our brains work differently when we face a nervous situation.

2016年高考英語北京卷 閱讀理解 閱讀E 原文

No sooner did she leave my doorstep than I had emails from two women whose kids go to my son's nursery and who recognized my face.

2019年高考英語天津卷 完形填空 原文

Once when I was facing a decision that involved high risk, I went to a friend.

2015年高考英語天津卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文

Once when she was facing away, I reached out and carefully scratched her back with my finger, she didn't move.

2015年高考英語四川卷 完形填空 原文

Researchers analyzing word-of-mouth communication—e-mails, web posts and reviews, face-to-face conversations—found that it tended to be more positive than negative, but that didn't necessarily mean people preferred positive news.

2016年高考英語全國卷3 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文

Researchers had people judge faces for attractiveness.

2015年高考英語上海卷 完形填空 原文

She looks like any other schoolgirl, fresh-faced and full of life.

2017年高考英語全國卷3 語法填空 原文

She said social media firms were exposing children to major emotional risks, with some youngsters starting secondary school ill-equipped to cope with the tremendous pressure they faced online.

2018年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文

So even if emissions were to begin to decrease today, we would still face the challenge of adapting to climate change.

2017年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文

So hoof on over to an office hour and have some one-on-one face time with someone who'll help you master the material and improve your grade, to boot.

2015年高考英語浙江卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 選項

Students need to spend at least as much time with their on-line course work as they would in a face-to-face classroom course.

2016年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀A 原文

Thanks to the beatles, a lot of opportunities were opened up to new faces on the market.

2019年高考英語浙江卷 閱讀理解 七選五 原文

The children's commissioner said schools and parents must now do more to prepare children for the emotional minefield they faced online.

2018年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文

The company's productions show the new face of 21st century Chinese theatre.

2017年高考英語全國卷2 閱讀理解 閱讀A 原文

The glaciers are disappearing, changing the face of kilimanjaro.

2019年高考英語全國卷I 完形填空 原文

The intelligent transport team at newcastle university have turned an electric car into a mobile laboratory named "drivelab" in order to understand the challenges faced by older drivers and to discover where the key stress points are.

2017年高考英語全國卷3 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文

The report said they also faced pressure to respond to messages at all hours of the day—especially at secondary school when more youngsters have mobile phones.

2018年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文

They are used to face-to-face communication.

2016年高考英語浙江卷(10月) 閱讀理解 閱讀C 選項

This is what my father has taught me--to always face difficulties and hope for the best.

2018年高考英語北京卷 單項填空 原文

Unexpectedly, I'm face-to-face with the gorilla, who begins screaming at the top of her lungs.

2018年高考英語全國卷3 語法填空 原文

We are facing today a strange new world and we are all wondering what we are going to do with it.

2015年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文

We should not lose heart in face of difficulties.

2016年高考英語天津卷 答案 選項

When a lion tamer holds a chair n front of the lion's face, the lion tries to focus on all four legs of the chair at the same time.

2014年高考英語全國卷1 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文

When faced with so many options, the lion chooses to freeze and wait instead of attacking the man holding the chair.

2014年高考英語全國卷1 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文

When he handed the medicine to the next musher, shannon‘s face was black from the extreme cold.

2016年高考英語北京卷 完形填空 原文

When he was writing his novels, Charles Dickens would act out the parts of the characters, he'd make faces in the mirror, and change his voice for each character.

2017年高考英語浙江卷(11月) 閱讀理解 七選五 原文

When shown an attractive face and then words with good or bad associations, people responded to positive words faster after viewing an attractive face.

2015年高考英語上海卷 完形填空 原文

When the world is "waving a chair in your face", you're advised to make a quick decision.

2014年高考英語全國卷1 閱讀理解 閱讀C 題設

When you face such an impossible situation, don't you want a quick fix and something to change immediately?

2014年高考英語全國卷1 語法填空 原文

With rainbows forming in the splashing water around you and the sound of huge drops of water bouncing off your body and face, it is truly exciting.

2015年高考英語重慶卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文

However, Allen believed that the unconscious mind generates as much action as the conscious mind, and while we may be able to sustain the illusion of control through the conscious mind alone, in reality we are continually faced with a question: “Why cannot I make myself do this or achieve that? ”Since desire and will are damaged by the presence of thoughts that do not accord with desire, Allen concluded : “ We do not attract what we want, but what we are.

出自-2011年考研翻譯原文

Reform has been vigorously opposed, perhaps most egregiously in education, where charter schools, academies and merit pay all faced drawn-out battles.

出自-2012年考研閱讀原文

Now utopia has grown unfashionable, as we have gained a deeper appreciation of the range of threats facing us, from asteroid strike to epidemic flu and to climate change.

出自-2013年考研閱讀原文

Regrettably, however, the report’s failure to address the true nature of the crisis facing liberal education may cause more harm than good.

出自-2014年考研閱讀原文

They could still invalidate Fourth Amendment protections when facing severe, urgent circumstances, and they could take reasonable measures to ensure that phone data are not erased or altered while a warrant is pending.

出自-2015年考研閱讀原文

Millennials, it seems, face the paradox of being the least formal generation yet the most conscious of style and personal branding.

出自-2016年考研閱讀原文

David Graddol concludes that monoglot English graduates face a bleak economic future as qualified multilingual youngsters from other countries are proving to have a competitive advantage over their British counterparts in global companies and organizations.

出自-2017年考研翻譯原文

Complex international, economic, technological and culture change could start to diminish the leading position of English as the language of the world market, and UK interests which enjoy advantage from the breath of English usage would consequently face new pressures.

出自-2017年考研翻譯原文

While all of these countries face their own challenges , there are a number of consistent themes.

出自-2017年考研閱讀原文

Among the annoying challenges facing the middle class is one that will probably go unmentioned in the next presidential campaign: What happens when the robots come for their jobs?.

出自-2018年考研閱讀原文

"Children may face serious difficulties in coping with significant moves, especially if it removes them from their current school or support system," he said.

2019年考研真題(英語二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

As well as those chronic problems, the EU face an acute crisis in its economic core, the 16 countries that use the single currency.

2011年考研真題(英語二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

France's planned tax is a clear warning: Unless a broad consensus can be reached on reforming the international tax system, other nations are likely to follow suit, and American companies will face a cascade of different taxes from dozens of nations that

2020年考研真題(英語一)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

If we know we will overreact to consumer products or housing options when we see a happy face, we can take a moment before buying.

2013年考研真題(英語二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

In other words, at a time when the working class has turned the country on its political head, frustrated that the opportunity that once defined America is vanishing, one obvious solution is staring us in the face.

2018年考研真題(英語二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

In short, the image that best represents the current crisis is the stereotypical cartoon scene of a man sitting at the breakfast table with a newspaper held up in front of his face, while a woman glares at the back of it, wanting to talk.

2010年考研真題(英語二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

It's a problem all of us face: you have limited time with the person that you want to talk with and you want to make this talk memorable.

2018年考研真題(英語二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

Local officials are using the levers that are available to them to safeguard residents'health in the face of a serious threat.

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英英釋義

Noun
  • 1. the front of the human head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear;

    "he washed his face"

    "I wish I had seen the look on his face when he got the news"

  • 2. the expression on a person's face;

    "a sad expression"

    "a look of triumph"

    "an angry face"

  • 3. the general outward appearance of something;

    "the face of the city is changing"

  • 4. the act of confronting bravely;

    "he hated facing the facts"

    "he excelled in the face of danger"

  • 5. the striking or working surface of an implement

  • 6. a part of a person that is used to refer to a person;

    "he looked out at a roomful of faces"

    "when he returned to work he met many new faces"

  • 7. a surface forming part of the outside of an object;

    "he examined all sides of the crystal"

    "dew dripped from the face of the leaf"

  • 8. the part of an animal corresponding to the human face

  • 9. the side upon which the use of a thing depends (usually the most prominent surface of an object);

    "he dealt the cards face down"

  • 10. a contorted facial expression;

    "she made a grimace at the prospect"

  • 11. a specific size and style of type within a type family

  • 12. status in the eyes of others;

    "he lost face"

  • 13. impudent aggressiveness;

    "I couldn't believe her boldness"

    "he had the effrontery to question my honesty"

  • 14. a vertical surface of a building or cliff

Verb
  • 1. deal with (something unpleasant) head on;

    "You must confront your problems"

    "He faced the terrible consequences of his mistakes"

  • 2. oppose, as in hostility or a competition;

    "You must confront your opponent"

    "Jackson faced Smith in the boxing ring"

    "The two enemies finally confronted each other"

  • 3. be oriented in a certain direction, often with respect to another reference point; be opposite to;

    "The house looks north"

    "My backyard look onto the pond"

    "The building faces the park"

  • 4. be opposite;

    "the facing page"

    "the two sofas face each other"

  • 5. turn so as to face; turn the face in a certain direction;

    "Turn and face your partner now"

  • 6. present somebody with something, usually to accuse or criticize;

    "We confronted him with the evidence"

    "He was faced with all the evidence and could no longer deny his actions"

    "An enormous dilemma faces us"

  • 7. turn so as to expose the face;

    "face a playing card"

  • 8. line the edge (of a garment) with a different material;

    "face the lapels of the jacket"

  • 9. cover the front or surface of;

    "The building was faced with beautiful stones"

同義詞辨析

appearance, look, face, aspect

這些名詞均含事物或人的"外表,容貌"之意。

  • appearance:普通用詞,著重由總體產(chǎn)生的印象。
  • look:普通用詞,多用復數(shù),可與appearance換用,但較口語化。
  • face:側重指容貌。
  • aspect:書面用詞,突出人或事物在某特定時間或地點時的外貌。

face, confront

這兩個動詞均含"面對"之意。

  • face: 口語用詞,含義廣,側重有勇氣、決心或自信心去面對。
  • confront: 書面用詞,多指勇敢、冷靜地面臨某種問題、困難或任務等。

meet, encounter, confront, face, contact

這些動詞均有"遇見,會見,碰見"之意。

  • meet: 普通用詞,本義指雙方或多方從不同方向或相反方向作向對運動,最終相碰(遇)。
  • encounter: 通常指遇到困難或挫折,也指偶然或意外地相遇。
  • confront: 不可避免的,面對面的相遇。也指敢于正視困難或問題的決心和信心。
  • face: 側重雙方靜止地面對面,或指指充滿勇氣、信心和決心正視人或事。
  • contact: 多指通過書信、電話或直接會面和別人聯(lián)系。口語用詞。

同義詞

n.外表;表情

expressionlook

反義詞

n.表面;前面;正面

back

其他釋義

avoidback

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