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。

He lay face down, his hands cuffed behind him.
他脸朝下躺着，双手被手铐铐在背后。
She put the watch face down on the table.
她将手表表面朝下放在桌上。
She was soon found face down in their home pool: grey, lifeless and without a heartbeat.
但很快便在自家的游泳池中找到了她。她当时面孔朝下，脸色苍白，毫无生气并且没有了心跳。
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。
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。
Connolly says to lay these cards face down.
康诺利说，打下这些卡正面朝下。
His comrades found him in a canal, face down, underwater, shrapnel in his brain.
他的战友在沟里找到了他，他脸朝下躺在水里，炮弹的碎片炸开了他的脑袋。
We must face down every aggressor.
我们必须制止一切侵略者。
You put your face up like that to say goodnight and then his mother put her face down.
你仰起脸孔像是道晚安，然后他的母亲低下她的脸庞。
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。