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  • 1. NOUN USES 名词用法
  • 2. VERB AND PHRASAL VERB USES 动词和短语动词用法
1.N-COUNT 可数名词脸;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.

【搭配模式】：oft poss N

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

    他摇下车窗，把头探了出去。

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

    一阵劲风迎面吹来。

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

    他涨红了脸，费力地喘着气。

  • She had a beautiful face.

    她容貌秀丽。

2.N-COUNT 可数名词面容;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.

【搭配模式】：poss N

  • He was walking around with a sad face...

    他四处走着，神色哀伤。

  • 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 可数名词崖面;山侧;(建筑物的)墙面 The face of a cliff, mountain, or building is a vertical surface or side of it.

【搭配模式】：with supp

  • ...the north face of the Eiger...

    艾格尔山北坡

  • He scrambled 200 feet up the cliff face.

    他沿着崖面向上攀登了200英尺。

4.N-COUNT 可数名词钟面;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 单数名词(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.

    【搭配模式】：the N of n

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

      英国乡村的日新月异

    • This would change the face of Malaysian politics.

      这将改变马来西亚的政治面貌。

    6.N-SING 单数名词(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.

    【搭配模式】：the adj N of n

    • 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。

    • 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 不可数名词面子;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.

    • 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。

    • 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。

    • 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 短语(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.

      【搭配模式】：V inflects

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

        你难道看不出这事会砸锅？

      10.PHRASE 短语徒劳拼命地干;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.

      【搭配模式】：V inflects

      【语用信息】：emphasis

      • 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 短语面朝下／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.

      【搭配模式】：PHR after v

      • 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。

      • Charles laid down his cards face up.

        查尔斯将手中的牌摊了出来。

      12.PHRASE 短语(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.

      【搭配模式】：n PHR

      【语用信息】：emphasis

      • 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 短语绝迹;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.

      【搭配模式】：PHR after v

      • 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 短语面对面;直面 If you come face to face with someone, you meet them and can talk to them or look at them directly.

      【搭配模式】：PHR after v

      • 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。

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

        这是两人首次当面会晤。

      15.PHRASE 短语面对,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.

      【搭配模式】：PHR after v

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

        最终，他又一次遭遇歧视。

      • 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 短语完全违背;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.

      【搭配模式】：V inflects

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

        似乎有悖常识的科学原理

      • 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 短语介词面对;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.

      • 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。

      • 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 短语公然嘲笑;公开蔑视 If someone laughs in your face, they are openly disrespectful towards you.

      【搭配模式】：V and N inflect

      • 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 短语不高兴的神情;严肃的神情;板起的脸 If you have a long face, you look very unhappy or serious.

      【搭配模式】：N inflects

      • He came to me with a very long face.

        他拉长了脸来找我。

      20.PHRASE 短语做鬼脸,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 .

      【搭配模式】：V and N inflect

      • 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。

      • 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 短语乍看起来;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.

      【搭配模式】：PHR with cl

      • 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。

      • 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 短语（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.

      【搭配模式】：V inflects

      • 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。

      • 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 短语(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.

      【搭配模式】：V inflects

      【语域标签】：mainly BRIT 主英

      • 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 短语(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.

      【搭配模式】：V inflects

      • 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。

      • 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 短语强绷笑脸 If you manage to keep a straight face, you manage to look serious, although you want to laugh.

      【搭配模式】：PHR after v

      • 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。

      • 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 短语当着…的面 If you say something to someone's face you say it openly in their presence.

      【搭配模式】：PHR after v

      • 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 短语脸上带着明显的…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.

      【搭配模式】：V inflects

      • Relief and gratitude were written all over his face...

        他一脸释然与感激。

      • 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; to have egg on your face→see: egg; to cut off your nose to spite your face→see: nose; shut your face→see: shut; a slap in the face→see: slap;

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