face up to

英 [feɪs ʌp tu]

美 [feɪs ʌp tu]

（使）直面，正视（真相、现实等）

柯林斯词典

• → see:face 5

双语例句

• Can their parents face up to all this?
  他们的父母能够面对这一切吗？
• Television could face up to its own fantasies about race and begin to challenge Americans 'assumptions about themselves.
  电视可能会正视它自己对种族问题所抱的幻想，并且开始对美国人对自己的种种设想提出质疑。
• There are dangers which you must face up to.
  有危险，你必须勇敢地面对。
• You're right. you're right. I should face up to the facts.
  你说的对，我该面对现实了。
• There is a good way to solve it: face up to your worries.
  有一个很好的解决办法：正视你的烦恼。
• This is almost our conscious and consciousness of the individual life and face must face up to the picture.
  这几乎是我们有意识和知觉的生命个体要正视和直面的图画。
• Face up to reality. That's the only way out.
  面对现实，这是唯一的出路。
• Or we can face up to the institutional impediments to growth I have described here.
  或者，我们也可以坦然面对我在文中描述的这种阻碍经济增长的机构问题。
• But to do so we must face up to realities.
  但要想这样，我们必须面对现实。
• All young people must face up to reality and not kid themselves that the world owes them a living.
  所有的年轻人都必须接受现实，不要自欺欺人，觉得生来就该享清福。