in the face of

基本解释

Perhaps you have great intentions, but they crumble in the face of reality.
你也许有长远的打算，但是当你面对现实时，它们破灭了。
Conclusions drawn in the face of such disparate events do have to be cautious.
面对这些如此不同的事件，做总结的时候肯定要非常谨慎。
Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
因为几乎每件事-所有外界期望、所有的名声、所有对困窘或失败的恐惧-在面对死亡时，都消失了，留下的只有最真实重要的东西。

The ancestral Pueblo people used stone tools to widen the small natural openings in the face of the canyon walls.
This is a scene of whether you as a writer compromise yourself in the face of authority that resists what you want to say.
场景是作者在面临权威坚持提出反对意见时,是否妥协你想要表达的内容。
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Both of them,as we saw in the face of fission, needs to accept a no branching rule.
这两种理论在裂变说法的面前，都需要接受无分支规则。
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Likewise a fiscal remedy like a massive tax cut is unrealistic in the face of the current deficit.
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