英语词汇“to laugh in the face of”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

(b) to laugh in the face of: to show open contempt for (something, esp. a known hazard or encumbrance); to display blithe disregard for (something).

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1641 W. Bridge Babylons Downfall 28 Let your faith laugh in the face of difficulties.

1691 J. Harris Mistakes v. i. 68 Had but my shafts hit right to my desire, I wou'd have laugh'd even in the face of heaven.

1796 S. T. Coleridge Lett. (1895) 209 Laugh in the faces of gloom and ill-lookingness.

1853 Godey's Lady's Bk. Sept. 230 That fearless trust which invests the soul in its first ignorance of evil, and causes it (having no choice but the Will of its Original) to laugh in the face of death.

1869 J. E. Cooke Mohun ii. xxvi. 177 Heaven had given him animal spirits, and he laughed in the face of danger.

1903 Locomotive Engineers' Monthly Jrnl. May 325/1 We are not all capable of laughing in the face of trouble and adversity, but we can at least make the attempt.

1998 R. Ray Certain Age 223 Because upstairs, laughing in the face of EU regulations, we were now cultivating our very own strain of biological warfare.

单词	to laugh in the face of
释义	> as lemmas to laugh in the face of (b) to laugh in the face of: to show open contempt for (something, esp. a known hazard or encumbrance); to display blithe disregard for (something). ΚΠ 1641 W. Bridge Babylons Downfall 28 Let your faith laugh in the face of difficulties. 1691 J. Harris Mistakes v. i. 68 Had but my shafts hit right to my desire, I wou'd have laugh'd even in the face of heaven. 1796 S. T. Coleridge Lett. (1895) 209 Laugh in the faces of gloom and ill-lookingness. 1853 Godey's Lady's Bk. Sept. 230 That fearless trust which invests the soul in its first ignorance of evil, and causes it (having no choice but the Will of its Original) to laugh in the face of death. 1869 J. E. Cooke Mohun ii. xxvi. 177 Heaven had given him animal spirits, and he laughed in the face of danger. 1903 Locomotive Engineers' Monthly Jrnl. May 325/1 We are not all capable of laughing in the face of trouble and adversity, but we can at least make the attempt. 1998 R. Ray Certain Age 223 Because upstairs, laughing in the face of EU regulations, we were now cultivating our very own strain of biological warfare. extracted from laughv. < as lemmas
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