Confront
[kən'frʌnt]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) deal with (something unpleasant) head on; 'You must confront your problems'; 'He faced the terrible consequences of his mistakes'.
(verb.) present somebody with something, usually to accuse or criticize; 'We confronted him with the evidence'; 'He was faced with all the evidence and could no longer deny his actions'; 'An enormous dilemma faces us'.
(verb.) oppose, as in hostility or a competition; 'You must confront your opponent'; 'Jackson faced Smith in the boxing ring'; 'The two enemies finally confronted each other'.
(verb.) be face to face with; 'The child screamed when he confronted the man in the Halloween costume'.
哈维整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To stand facing or in front of; to face; esp. to face hostilely; to oppose with firmness.
(v. t.) To put face to face; to cause to face or to meet; as, to confront one with the proofs of his wrong doing.
(v. t.) To set in opposition for examination; to put in contrast; to compare.
尤金伲亚整理
同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. [1]. Encounter, face, bring face to face, oppose openly.[2]. Compare, bring into comparison.
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同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Oppose, face, encounter, resist, intimidate, menace
ANT:Rally, encourage, abet, countenance
杰克校對
解釋/意思:
v.t. to stand in front of: to face: to oppose: to bring face to face: to compare.—n. Confrontā′tion the bringing of people face to face.
杜安整理
例句/造句/用法:
- I always thought this was business, this was the way to confront the thing, this was the way to take the foe by the throat. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- Will you be so good as to confront me with that genius? 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- She continued to confront him with the same air of ironic composure. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Well,' said Bounderby, stopping and facing about to confront them all, 'I'll tell you. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- Madame saw all this, but she still pretended not to see: she had not rectitude of soul to confront the child with her vices. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Confront me with him,' said Mr. Pickwick, 'that is all I ask, and all I require. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- You must come, certainly--to confront him, so that he may make no false representations to me. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- I started much more naturally then, to find myself confronted by a man in a sober gray dress. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- With all the chances thus in our favour I confronted the next emergency, and played the second move in the game. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- A dozen lesser therns confronted us from a large doorway at the opposite end of the storeroom from which we had entered. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- Scarcely had the blow descended when I was confronted with a new danger. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- If energy remains, it will be rather a dangerous energy--deadly when confronted with injustice. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- The morrow, rising on an apparent continuance of the same conditions, revealed nothing of what had occurred between the confronted pair. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Little Dorrit looked up, surprised, and they confronted Maggy, who brought herself at sight of them to a dead stop. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- This was the speediest way to reinforce Warren who was confronting the enemy on both the Orange plank and turnpike roads. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- From that event to the close of the war, I never experienced trepidation upon confronting an enemy, though I always felt more or less anxiety. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- The only army Santa Anna had to protect his capital and the mountain passes west of Vera Cruz, was the one he had with him confronting General Taylor. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- The two armies had been confronting each other so long, without any decisive result, that they hardly knew which could whip. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- During three long years the Armies of the Potomac and Northern Virginia had been confronting each other. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Tom by this time had gained his feet, and was confronting his master with a steady, unmoved front. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- On the 25th of June General Burnside had commenced running a mine from about the centre of his front under the Confederate works confronting him. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Immediately afterwards, he twists him into a public-house and into a parlour, where he confronts him and claps his own back against the door. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- But this is not all of the trouble that confronts us in this case. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Do I set my mind to analyse the abominable impossibility which, nevertheless, confronts me as an undeniable fact? 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Mrs. Chadband, more than ready, so advances as to jostle her husband into the background and confronts Mr. Bucket with a hard, frowning smile. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
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