the face

They secured a victory in the face of overwhelming odds.

尽管情况非常不利，他们仍得到了胜利。

It is, on the face of it, difficult to see how the West could radically change its position.

初看起来，很难理解西方为何会立场突变。

Mr Smith elbowed me in the face

史密斯先生一肘撞在我脸上。

She gave him a slap across the face.

她打了他一个耳光。

A stinging slap across the face jolted her

火辣辣的一巴掌打在脸上，她惊呆了。

She slapped him hard across the face.

她狠狠给了他一个耳光。

The proposal had been dropped in the face of determined opposition.

这项建议因遭到坚决反对而被放弃。

She had clawed Stephen across the face.

她抓过斯蒂芬的脸。

He suffered cuts and abrasions to the face.

他的脸上有许多划伤和擦伤。

Such a proposal is flying in the face of common sense.

这个建议违反常识。

They were staring defeat in the face.

对他们来说，失败不可避免。

the vanity of human ambition in the face of death

个人抱负在死亡面前的微不足道

I'll never be able to look her in the face again!

我再也不能坦然地面对她了！

You can argue till you're blue in the face, but you won't change my mind.

你可以费尽口舌，但改变不了我的主意。

She suffered multiple lacerations to the face.

她的面部多处被划伤。

Keep looking ─ they can't just have vanished off the face of the earth.

继续找——他们不可能就此从地球上彻底消逝的。

non-verbal communication (= expressions of the face, gestures , etc.)

非语言交际

Defeat was staring them in the face.

他们必遭失败。

The answer was staring us in the face.

答案明摆在我们面前。

We won the contract in the face of stiff competition.

面对激烈的竞争，我们赢得了这项合同。

I looked her square in the face.

我直视着她的脸。

He hit him across the face.

他打了他的脸。

courage in the face of adversity

面对逆境的勇气

He stammered something and went very red in the face.

他结结巴巴地说了些什么，脸涨得通红。

Then the answer hit me. It had been staring me in the face ever since Lullington.

接着我突然想到了答案。从在路林顿起它就一直摆在我的眼前。

They showed great perseverance in the face of difficulty.

他们面对困难表现了坚强的毅力。

The face is the mirror of the soul.

脸是反映灵魂的镜子。

On the face of it, it seems like a great deal.

表面上看来好像很多。

'The Sun' calls it a massive slap in the face for the United States government

《太阳报》称之为打在美国政府脸上的一记重重的耳光。

a punch in the face

打在脸上的一记重拳