the face of

常见例句

They're trying to blast away the face of the rock.
他们试图炸开岩石的表面。
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Conclusions drawn in the face of such disparate events do have to be cautious.
面对这些如此不同的事件，做总结的时候肯定要非常谨慎。
There are no words to express what we all feel for you and the courage you have shown in the face of unbearable loss.
没有语言能够表达我们对你们的感受，和你们脸上对那难以承受的损失所展现的勇气。

The ancestral Pueblo people used stone tools to widen the small natural openings in the face of the canyon walls.
So, the wind over the face of deep, now it's demythologized, So it's as if they're invoking the story That would have been familiar and yet changing it.
现在，掠过混沌表面的气流是没有神话色彩的，它似乎是从故事中引用的,它看来熟悉却又稍有改动。
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This is a scene of whether you as a writer compromise yourself in the face of authority that resists what you want to say.
场景是作者在面临权威坚持提出反对意见时,是否妥协你想要表达的内容。
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"I felt I had an opportunity to give to someone who I knew the face of, " Dorry says.
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