face down

英 [feɪs daʊn]

美 [feɪs daʊn]

面朝下／仰面; （威风凛凛地）挫败，反对

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB (威风凛凛地)挫败，战胜
  If youfacesomeonedown, you oppose them or defeat them by being confident and looking at them boldly.
  1. He's confronted crowds before and faced them down.
     他曾面对众人，把他们镇住了。

双语例句

• Lying face down on the hillside, his head pointing uphill.
  在上坡上脸朝下躺着，头部朝向山顶。
• The croupier dealt each player a card, face down
  赌台管理员给每位玩家正面朝下发了一张牌。
• We found her with her face down in the pillow.
  我们发现她倒在枕头上。
• They bound me up, gagged me and left me face down on the floor.
  他们把我捆住，用东西塞住我的嘴，让我趴在地板上。
• You put your face up like that to say goodnight and then his mother put her face down.
  你仰起脸孔像是道晚安，然后他的母亲低下她的脸庞。
• Connolly says to lay these cards face down.
  康诺利说，打下这些卡正面朝下。
• He is still lying face down, the children sat on his side, guarding him.
  他仍旧面朝下躺着，孩子坐在他的身边，守着他。
• The task presents subjects with a computer image of several rows of cards face down.
  这项任务的每位测试对象都会看到一个电脑画面，画面上排列着几排全部正面朝下的卡片。
• Then we precarious moved on toward the sidewalk, where she pulled my face down to hers, kissed me on both cheeks, and then limped away, still smiling and waving back to me.
  时，我们蹒跚地向人行道走去，她把我的脸拉向她的脸，在我两颊上各吻了一下，然后一瘸一拐地离开了，还不时地回头向我微笑和挥手。
• The book adds: To face down despair with faith and appropriate humility is perhaps the wisest course.
  这本书补充道：以信念和适度的谦逊来面对绝望或许是最明智的选择。