英语释义

• maintaining dignity or prestige;

  "a face-saving compromise"

片语

face-saving devices面子维护手段

face-saving theory面子保全论

face-saving strategies面子补救策略

face-saving system面子体系

face-saving act维护面子行为

英汉例句

• this thinking is common in asia culture, where face-saving is important. face-saving means not making others look bad (a.k.a losing face).

  这种思想在爱面子的亚洲文化中是很常见的，保全面子就是意味着不能让人难堪（就是丢面子）。

• many scholars have studied it from various perspectives, while the ones that concerning a contrastive study of english and chinese linguistic face-saving devices are few.

  本文致力于言语交际中面子维护手段的英汉对比研究，希望对这方面的研究有所贡献。

• this face-saving gesture saw the us express 「sincere regret」 over the missing pilot and aircraft, without acknowledging responsibility.

  这一挽救面子的姿态，是注意到了美国对（中国）飞行员和飞机失蹤「真诚遗憾」（但没有承认负有责任）。

• the attorney-general’s ruling that there was no evidence of wrongdoing merely provided face-saving cover for his inevitable exit.

  司法部长宣示未发现任何不法行为的证据，只是给他一块遮羞布，替他在无法避免的下台之前保留颜面。

• i thought a russian presence would help protect the serb minority and might give milosevic a face-saving way out of his opposition to foreign troops.

  我认为，如果俄军的加入会帮助保护在科索沃的塞族人的安全，而且能给米洛舍维奇一个体面的台阶，让他不再反对外国军队进入该国。

• take her to one side and offer her a lot of money, a face-saving story and a great reference, and usher her gently out of the door.

  把她叫到一边，给她一大笔钱，编造一些为她保留颜面的话，再写一些很棒的评语，和颜悦色地把她送出门。

• so the government needed a face-saving way out of the latest fine mess it had gotten the project into.

  因此蒙古政府需要想办法把这个被它自己弄得一团糟的项目导入正轨以挽回颜面。

• he was seeking a face-saving deal with the bank「s board that would allow him to resign under his own terms and escape some blame for the foolery involving his girlfriend」s compensation.

  他曾一度向银行董事会寻求一份挽回颜面的协易，即允许他以个人的名义辞职，以摆脱对其给女友加薪的愚蠢行为的指责。

• ah, i said the stationmaster that be concerned about face-saving is not good stationmaster, the message that i send besides can not be those rubbish information that keep a few casually.

  呵呵，我说了爱面子的站长不是好站长，况且我发的信息可不是那些随便就写几句的垃圾信息。

• assuming the europeans agree on a face-saving 「voluntary」 participation by private creditors to please the germans, a second bail-out of some €100 billion will follow.

  假如欧洲领导人为取悦于德国而达成一项挽回体面的协议，即让私人债权人「自愿」加入救助，那么第二个总额约1000亿欧元的救助计划将随之推出。

• a shared sense of crisis also gave china a face-saving way of engaging in some fence-mending.

  通过携手面对金融危机，中国能用很能保全面子的方法修复与一些国家的关系。

• however, according to later speculation that she is to maintain this win their hearts and purely face-saving pretext, no one had flattered her fat.

  但据后来人推测，她这个收心纯属是维持面子的籍口，没有人再奉承她的肥肉了。

• this gives the other person a face-saving way to change his or her behavior.

  这即为别人保存了颜面又能改变他或她的行为。

• is he seeking a face-saving formula from a european summit at the end of the month?

  本月末将召开的欧洲峰会上，他会想法挽回自己的面子吗？

• did either party participate in the creation of a face-saving solution?

  有任何一方试着提出能为对方留颜面的解决方案吗？

• after years of legal fights, hurt pride and face-saving compromises, the saga of endesa, a spanish utility, and enel, an italian energy giant, came to an end on february 20th.

  在持续了数年的诉讼纷争，自尊心受损和保住面子的妥协之后，西班牙电力公司endesa和意大利能源巨头enel的曲折故事终于于2月20日走到了终点。

• further face-saving compromises may be difficult given the apparent backing for green dam by the propaganda and military.

  不过绿坝有来自宣传部门和军队的大力支持，下一步挽回脸面的措施可能会很难出台。

• it's no longer just celebrities and business executives who need to think about aggressive reputation-protection and face-saving techniques.

  以前只有名人和公司高管需要考虑采取积极措施保护自己名誉，学习挽回脸面的技巧；但现在，这已成为一种大众需求。

• the gulf co-operation council, a six-strong rich man’s club of neighbours, has invited him and his foes to talks in the saudi capital, riyadh, to find a face-saving formula for his departure.

  由六个富强的邻国组成的海湾阿拉伯国家合作委员会已向总统和他的敌人发出到沙特首都利雅得协商的邀请，旨在为总统寻求一个体面的离职方式。

• the united nations formed the palmer commission to come up with a face-saving way for the two countries to patch their differences.

  联合国成立以帕尔默为首的调查小组为两国弥和分歧找出体面方法。

• he finally worked out a face-saving arrangement.

  他终于想出了一个保全面子的办法。