saving face 留面子_口语学习技巧

saving face 留面子

文章来源：未知文章作者：enread 发布时间：2022-01-04 02:13 字体： [大中小]　进入论坛

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在英语里 to save face 的意思是想要保全面子，避免陷入难堪的局面。

例句

John was just pretending to understand the French conversation in order to save face.

The wedding speech was terrible but everyone clapped to save the best man's face.

The company director got very drunk¹ at the annual party but no-one ever mentioned it to save his face.

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To save face的反义词是to lose face, 也就是丢脸的意思。

It was a terrible loss of face when the student corrected the teacher's English in front of the whole class.

Losing your temper² in public is seen as a loss of face in China.

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1 drunk
adj.醉酒的；(喻)陶醉的；n.酗酒者，醉汉
参考例句：
People who drives when they are drunk should be heavily penalised.醉酒驾车的人应受重罚。 She found him drunk when she came home at night.她晚上回家时，经常发现他醉醺醺的。

2 temper
n.恶劣的心情，心绪焦躁；性情，脾气
参考例句：
The man lost his temper and struck out wildly.那人因发怒而大打出手。 One day the man flew at me in a temper.一天,那个人冲着我大发脾气。