英语释义

1. to admit that something is true
The time has come to face the fact that the government's policies aren't working. The time has come to face the facts and admit that the government's policies aren't working. Let's face facts—our plan isn't working.

片语

face the truth面对现实

wake up and smell the coffee面对现实

英汉例句

• They had to face the fact that the nearest filling station is 30 miles away.

  他们必然面临一个事实，那就是最近的加油站离这儿有30英里远。

• I「ll face the fact that my girlfriend will come this afternoon.

  我将要面对我女友今天下午要来的事实。

• I think Phil has to face the fact that she no longer loves him.

  我想费尔只好面对她不再爱他的事实。

• Veronica, I know that it is not easy for you to have to face the fact that everything that you had accepted as true, was indeed false.

  维诺·尼卡，我知道这对你来说不容易，必须面对这些事实，而每件事情对你来说都曾是一个被你接受的事实，却是谎言。

• When we face the fact that can not be changed, I think we should learn how to change.

  当我们面对的事实无法改变的时候，我觉得我们应该要学会改变自己。

• But even after a few months there I had to face the fact that I had to quit college and go to work to support my mother as well as myself.

  但是即使如此，几个月后我还是不得不面对辍学的现实，因为我要工作来维持妈妈和我的生活。

• Lieutenant Frederic Henry and English nurse Catherine Barkley have to face the fact that death can make its presence known off the battlefield as well as on.

  弗雷德里克·亨利中尉和英国护士凯瑟琳·巴克利，不得不面对一个事实：即使离开了战场，也逃不掉死亡的阴影。

• But considered realistically we had to face the fact that our prospects were less than good.

  但是现实地考虑一下，咱们不得不正视这样的事实：咱们的前景并不妙。

• When author James Fallows shared a beer in a Japanese bar with an English friend in 1986, his friend said, 「Why don」t you just face the fact that you're second-raters, like us?」

  作家詹姆斯法罗斯（JamesFallows）先生1986年在一家日本酒吧与一个英国朋友喝酒时，他的朋友说，「为什么你们不像我们一样接收二等国家这个事实呢？」

• Yet we must also face the fact that progress towards other goals that were set has not come nearly fast enough.

  然而，我们也必须正视现实，因为对于其他各项目标，进展的速度仍然不够快。

• Dealers must face the fact that GM needs to cut their Numbers and slim its bloated brand portfolio.

  经销商必须面对的事实是，通用在削减经销店数量的同时，也对旗下琳瑯繁杂的汽车品牌进行瘦身。

• Now, a decade or so later, women have had to face the fact that, in many ways, feminism and liberation made promises that could not be delivered. {2}

  然而，几十年过去了，女性不得不面对这样的事实：女权主义和性解放在多种方面，作出了无法实现的承诺。

• But considering realistically, we had to face the fact that our prospects were less than good.

  但是现实地考虑一下，我们不得不正视这样一个事实，我们的前景并不妙。

• Tip:If every single one of your friends hates your beloved, face the fact that they probably see something you don’t.

  小贴士：如果每个人都不喜欢你爱的那个人，要面对现实：他们可能发现了你没有发现的东西。

• He should also face the fact that guantanamo has improved.

  他也应正视一个事实，即关塔那摩的情况已有所改善。

• It can be hard to assemble an effective team, and even harder to face the fact that a talented member is a chronic disrupter.

  组建一个高效的团队是艰难的，更艰难的是面对这样的事实：某个极具天分的成员一直都是个刺儿头。

• She had to face the fact that her life had changed forever.

  她不得不面对她的生活已经彻底改变的事实。

• Having begun as a secluded sinning haven, tucked away in the desert, Las Vegas has had to face the fact that its chief sin on offer has become much more widely available.

  作为「罪恶之都」，沙漠深处的拉斯维加斯要面对一个事实，那就是它的罪恶之源变得更为宽广。

• We must face the fact that China is bent on surpassing us, and everyone else, in education.

  我们必须直面事实，中国已经下定决心要在教育方面超过我们和其他所有人。

• Today that comfort has been stripped away. We must face the fact that China is bent on surpassing us, and everyone else, in education.

  今天这种安慰已经被一扫而光。我们必须直面事实，中国已经下定决心要在教育方面超过我们和其他所有人。

• But now we face the fact that a foreign tycoon wants to buy 300 square kilometers of Icelandic land.

  但是现在我们面临的现实是一个外国大亨想要买下冰岛的300平方公里。

• We must face the fact that we have no money.

  我们必须面对没有钱这个事实。

• We must face the fact that we might lose our deposit.

  我们必须正视我们可能失去存款这一事实。

• The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

  幸福的秘密，就是承认这个世界糟透了。