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。
• 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。
• Quentin: I've put the document face down on the glass, what do I do next?
  昆廷：我把文件面朝下放在玻璃上了，跟著怎么办？
• The screen turns off when the phone is placed face down or in a pocket.
  把手机面朝下放着或把它放到口袋里时，手机屏幕会关闭。
• She put the watch face down on the table.
  她将手表表面朝下放在桌上。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• 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。