| 单词 | the face of something |
| 释义 | the face of somethingthe face of something a) SEEMthe nature or character of an organization, industry, system etc, and the way it appears to people 某事物的本质[特征] technology that has changed the face of society 改变了社会面貌的技术 Is this the new face of the Tory party? 这就是英国保守党的新面貌吗？ the ugly/unacceptable/acceptable face of something (=the qualities of an organization, industry etc which people find unacceptable or acceptable) 某事物丑陋的/不可接受的/可接受的一面 the unacceptable face of capitalism 资本主义不可接受的一面 b) APPEARANCEthe general appearance of a particular place 某个地方的外观 the changing face of the landscape 不断变化的地貌 Examples from the Corpus the face of something• The M-forty extension through fifty nine miles of Oxfordshire and Warwickshire has changed the face of the countryside.• It's a new book about the changing face of the suburbs.• One is already the face of the other.• Roosevelt's bold policies changed the face of the nation.• All of this construction took place, of course, in the face of the most severe weather conditions imaginable.• In the face of the real danger to the boys in combat, everything at home seemed temporary.• This explains the neutral look on the faces of people in the streets.• It simply has more earthquakes than any other place on the face of the globe.• I wish you could have seen the faces of the jury as the awful specter of the future unfolded before them.• She had seen too many ghost skulls, and all under the faces of people who were now dead. → the face of something at face1(10) |
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