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 put the watch face down on the table.
  她将手表表面朝下放在桌上。
• He lay face down, his hands cuffed behind him.
  他脸朝下躺着，双手被手铐铐在背后。
• 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。
• Place the cards face down on the table and cut them.
  把纸牌正面朝下放在桌子上，然后切牌。
• 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。
• 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。
• We must face down every aggressor.
  我们必须制止一切侵略者。
• 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。
• 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。
• He is still lying face down, the children sat on his side, guarding him.
  他仍旧面朝下躺着，孩子坐在他的身边，守着他。