face

英[feɪs]美[feɪs]

n.脸（面），面貌，山侧，表盘，方面；

v.面对，面临，承认，处理；

复数：faces;

第三人称单数：faces;

过去式：faced;

过去分词：faced;

现在分词：facing;

例句

a woeful face一副悲伤的面容

Her face swelled with the toothache.她的脸由于牙疼而肿了起来。

His face remained impassive, so strong was his self-control.他依然是面无表情，自控能力是如此之强。

We all can visualise a friend’s face when he is away.朋友离去后我们都能想起他的面容。

We should compose ourselves in the face of fear.我们在危险时要保持镇静。

In the face of the new evidence he had to climb down and admit he had been wrong.在新的证据面前, 他只得服输认错。

He won't face up to the fact that he is too old for the job.他年纪太大不宜干这工作, 他却不愿面对这一现实。

Ever since then I've been longing to meet him face to face.从那时起, 我一直渴望和他面对面地聚会。

I sat face to face with her.我和她面对面坐着。

Tears mingled with the blood from the cut on his face.泪水同脸上伤口流出的血混在一起了。

英语六级真题

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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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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for five years, meaning that lower-paid graduates have to start repaying their loans; and maintenance grants have been replaced by loans, meaning that students from poorer backgrounds face higher debt than those with wealthier parents.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Doctors can face some grim trade-offs.

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.

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

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

And unemployed workers face difficult odds.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Or do they face more challenges than any previous generation?

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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PHRASE

公然嘲笑;公开蔑视

If someone laughs in your face, they are openly disrespectful towards you.

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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.

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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 .

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乍看起来;*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.

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（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.

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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.

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(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.

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强绷笑脸

If you manage to keep a straight face, you manage to look serious, although you want to laugh.

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当着…的面

If you say something to someone's face you say it openly in their presence.

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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.

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英汉词典释义

n.

脸, 面孔

面容, 面部表情

外表, 外貌

表面, 正面

面子, 威严

有…面容的；有…表情的

（某类型的）人

钟面；表盘

（事物的某种）特征

方面

vt. & vi.

面对, 面向…

正视; 承认

vt.

面临…

必须对付（某情况）

（感到不能）对付；（不愿）处理

（明知不好办而）交谈，应付

（以另一物）覆盖表面

英英词典释义

Noun

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

2. the expression on a person's face;

3. the general outward appearance of something;

4. the act of confronting bravely;

5. the striking or working surface of an implement

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

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

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);

10. a contorted facial expression;

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

12. status in the eyes of others;

13. impudent aggressiveness;

14. a vertical surface of a building or cliff

Verb

1. deal with (something unpleasant) head on;

2. oppose, as in hostility or a competition;

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

4. be opposite;

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

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

7. turn so as to expose the face;

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

9. cover the front or surface of;

行业词典

体育： 桨的入水位置；比赛中与；相遇；击球的一面；

医学： 面：在头的前面或腹侧面，从额到颏；任何现显的表面和外表；面容。另见facies；

数学： 面；

昆虫学： 颜面；顔面；

机械： 前面；刀具上切屑流过的表面。；

法律： 票面金额；票面价值；

物理学： 面心格： face-centered lattice；

解剖学： 面，又称 :面(Facies（拉）)；又称：面(Facies（拉）)；