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。
• Put the document you want to copy face down on the glass.
  把你要影印的文件面朝下放在玻璃上。
• He's confronted crowds before and faced them down.
  他曾面对众人，把他们镇住了。
• She put the watch face down on the table.
  她将手表表面朝下放在桌上。
• 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。
• 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。
• His comrades found him in a canal, face down, underwater, shrapnel in his brain.
  他的战友在沟里找到了他，他脸朝下躺在水里，炮弹的碎片炸开了他的脑袋。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。