in the face of

基本解釋

Perhaps you have great intentions, but they crumble in the face of reality.
你也許有長遠的打算，但是當你面對現(xiàn)實時，它們破滅了。
Conclusions drawn in the face of such disparate events do have to be cautious.
面對這些如此不同的事件，做總結的時候肯定要非常謹慎。
Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
因為幾乎每件事-所有外界期望、所有的名聲、所有對困窘或失敗的恐懼-在面對死亡時，都消失了，留下的只有最真實重要的東西。

The ancestral Pueblo people used stone tools to widen the small natural openings in the face of the canyon walls.
This is a scene of whether you as a writer compromise yourself in the face of authority that resists what you want to say.
場景是作者在面臨權威堅持提出反對意見時,是否妥協(xié)你想要表達的內容。
耶魯公開課 - 1945年后的美國小說課程節(jié)選
Both of them,as we saw in the face of fission, needs to accept a no branching rule.
這兩種理論在裂變說法的面前，都需要接受無分支規(guī)則。
耶魯公開課 - 死亡課程節(jié)選

Likewise a fiscal remedy like a massive tax cut is unrealistic in the face of the current deficit.
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