Countenance
['kaʊnt(ə)nəns;-tɪn-] or ['kaʊntənəns]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the appearance conveyed by a person's face; 'a pleasant countenance'; 'a stern visage'.
(noun.) the human face (`kisser' and `smiler' and `mug' are informal terms for `face' and `phiz' is British).
欧文整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To encourage; to favor; to approve; to aid; to abet.
(v. t.) To make a show of; to pretend.
哈蒂編輯
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Aspect, look, mien, expression of the face.[2]. Favor, encouragement, patronage, support, aid, assistance, sanction, approbation, approval.
v. a. Approve, sanction, support, aid, abet, assist, favor, encourage, patronize, befriend, stand by, side with, take the side of.
伊莱扎錄入
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Aid, abet, encourage, support
ANT:Discountenance
SYN:Help, aid, abet, favor, sanction, patronize, support, encourage
ANT:Oppose, confront, discourage, discountenance, browbeat
整理:诺里斯
解釋/意思:
n. the face: the expression of the face: appearance.—v.t. to favour or approve.—n. Coun′tenancer.—Change countenance to change the expression of the face; His countenance fell he became dejected or angry; In countenance unabashed—opp. to Out of countenance.
丹尼斯編輯
娱乐性解釋/意思：
To dream of a beautiful and ingenuous countenance, you may safely look for some pleasure to fall to your lot in the near future; but to behold an ugly and scowling visage, portends unfavorable transactions.
編輯:桑德拉
例句/造句/用法:
- Chloe's countenance fell. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- When others uttered it she changed countenance--I know she did. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- You should do so, Sir,' said Pott, with a severe countenance. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Her countenance expressed the deepest sorrow that is consistent with resignation. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Nothing but concern for Elizabeth could enable Bingley to keep his countenance. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- Mrs. Sowerberry emerged from a little room behind the shop, and presented the form of a short, then, squeezed-up woman, with a vixenish countenance. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- She raised her eyes to my face, on being thus addressed, and her fingers plied their work, and she looked at me with an unmoved countenance. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- Mrs. Norris, whose attachment seemed to augment with the demerits of her niece, would have had her received at home and countenanced by them all. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- He never said so much to me, it is true; but he always received me very kindly at his house, and openly countenanced my courtship. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Mr. Thesiger has always countenanced him, said Mrs. Hackbutt. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- One or two countenances fell. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The days now passed as peaceably as before, with the sole alteration, that joy had taken place of sadness in the countenances of my friends. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- My life had hitherto been remarkably secluded and domestic; and this had given me invincible repugnance to new countenances. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- Never certainly have I seen a plainer confession of guilt upon human countenances. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- Now, in the South we have our poor, but there is not that terrible expression in their countenances of a sullen sense of injustice which I see here. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- Some hours passed thus, while they, by their countenances, expressed joy, the cause of which I did not comprehend. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- The eagerness both of attention and intention, exhibited in all the countenances, made them a most impressive sight. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
錄入:梅林达