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

• She was soon found face down in their home pool: grey, lifeless and without a heartbeat.
  但很快便在自家的游泳池中找到了她。她当时面孔朝下，脸色苍白，毫无生气并且没有了心跳。
• The task presents subjects with a computer image of several rows of cards face down.
  这项任务的每位测试对象都会看到一个电脑画面，画面上排列着几排全部正面朝下的卡片。
• As you started to play, brick on the face down on the screen.
  正如你首发上场，砖放在面倒在屏幕上。
• 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。
• He lay face down, his hands cuffed behind him.
  他脸朝下躺着，双手被手铐铐在背后。
• 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 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。
• He's confronted crowds before and faced them down.
  他曾面对众人，把他们镇住了。
• They bound me up, gagged me and left me face down on the floor.
  他们把我捆住，用东西塞住我的嘴，让我趴在地板上。