the face of

基本解釋

They're trying to blast away the face of the rock.
他們試圖炸開巖石的表麪。
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Conclusions drawn in the face of such disparate events do have to be cautious.
麪對這些如此不同的事件，做縂結(jié)的時候肯定要非常謹慎。
There are no words to express what we all feel for you and the courage you have shown in the face of unbearable loss.
沒有語言能夠表達我們對你們的感受，和你們臉上對那難以承受的損失所展現(xiàn)的勇氣。

The ancestral Pueblo people used stone tools to widen the small natural openings in the face of the canyon walls.
So, the wind over the face of deep, now it's demythologized, So it's as if they're invoking the story That would have been familiar and yet changing it.
現(xiàn)在，掠過混沌表麪的氣流是沒有神話色彩的，它似乎是從故事中引用的,它看來熟悉卻又稍有改動。
耶魯公開課 - 舊約導論課程節(jié)選
This is a scene of whether you as a writer compromise yourself in the face of authority that resists what you want to say.
場景是作者在麪臨權(quán)威堅持提出反對意見時,是否妥協(xié)你想要表達的內(nèi)容。
耶魯公開課 - 1945年後的美國小說課程節(jié)選

Two years ago Semion Mogilevich, the face of Russian organized crime, was in a Russian prison.
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