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

• He was then shoved face down on the pavement
  接着他被一把推倒，脸朝下趴在了人行道上。
• Place the cards face down on the table and cut them.
  把纸牌正面朝下放在桌子上，然后切牌。
• He's confronted crowds before and faced them down.
  他曾面对众人，把他们镇住了。
• Electrician: if you ever find me face down in the gutter, turn me around to my back.
  电工：如果你要是看见我倒在排水沟下面了，就把我的背翻过来。
• A gust of wind knocked him off balance and he fell face down in the mud.
  一阵大风刮得他失去平衡，脸朝下摔在泥里。
• 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。
• 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。
• He lay face down, his hands cuffed behind him.
  他脸朝下躺着，双手被手铐铐在背后。
• 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。
• 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。