| 单词 | to look in the face |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto look (a person, etc.) in the face c. to look (a person, etc.) in the face: to meet (someone) with a steady gaze that implies courage, confidence, or (sometimes) defiance; to confront (literal and figurative). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (transitive)] > stare or gaze at > in the face to look (a person, etc.) in the facec1400 to stare (a person) in the face1510 to fix (a person) with one's eyes1792 envisage1820 fasten1870 impale1877 the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > oppose [verb (transitive)] > confront abidec1275 stand?1316 visagec1386 bidec1400 to stand to ——1562 affront1569 to look (a person, etc.) in the face1573 outface1574 front1582 to meet with1585 confront1594 propose1594 to stand up to1596 outfront1631 to stand forth to1631 head1682 meet1725 the mind > emotion > courage > moral courage > one who braves danger > defy danger (person or thing) [verb] > meet with a steady gaze to look (a person, etc.) in the face1573 face1795 c1400 ( Canticum Creatione , in C. Horstmann Sammlung Altengl. Legenden (1878) 378 [Eue] wax ashamed,..Þat she dorste neuere after þat tym Loken Adam in þe face. 1573 G. Gascoigne & F. Kinwelmersh Iocasta ii. ii, in G. Gascoigne Hundreth Sundrie Flowres sig. Pii Boldly to looke our foemen in the face. 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 163 That shame and dismaiednesse which maketh us that we dare not looke a man in the face. a1662 P. Heylyn Cyprianus Angl. (1719) ii. v. 20 I dare look Death in the Face, and I hope the People too. 1780 W. Cowper Table Talk 321 When Tumult..dared to look his master in the face. 1851 H. W. Longfellow Golden Legend ii. 82 He..looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man. 1867 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. iii. 128 Too clear to be misunderstood by any one who looks the evidence on the matter fairly in the face. 1918 W. J. Locke Rough Road xx. 245 J. M. T. and I have looked Death in the face many a time—and really he's a poor..sort of Bogey. 2004 T. C. Boyle Inner Circle ii. i. 247 She looked him right in the face, gave him her brightest..smile. < as lemmas |
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