She stared me in the face and told me to leave.她盯着我的眼睛叫我走开。

The solution was staring me in the face. [=the solution was obvious but I failed to see it]答案就在我的眼前。

Failure was staring him in the face. [=he was very close to failing; he was almost certain to fail]他离失败不远了。

They stared death in the face/eye [=they came very close to death; they did something that was very dangerous and that could have caused their death] and didn't flinch.他们面临死亡，但是没有退缩。