face up to

英 [feɪs ʌp tu]

美 [feɪs ʌp tu]

（使）直面，正视（真相、现实等）

柯林斯词典

• → see:face 5

双语例句

• We never told anybody to do anything, except to face up to the abilities of consciousness.
  我们从来没有告诉过任何人去做任何事，我们只是让他们面对自己意识的能力。
• Japan must face up to the past, if it wants to lead in the future.
  日本若想要主导未来，就必须正视历史。
• Therefore, it is necessary face up to the problem.
  因此，大有必要来正视这个问题。
• You're right. you're right. I should face up to the facts.
  你说的对，我该面对现实了。
• The boy knew he should tell his neighbour that he broke the window, but he couldn't face up to it.
  那男孩知道他应该告诉邻居是他打破了窗户，但他又没有勇气这么做。
• You could face up to eight years in jail for spreading rumours considered prejudicial to security
  散布危害社会安全的谣言将被判入狱8年。
• He was forced to face up to the situation.
  他只好勇敢地面对这种局面。
• I guess I don't have the courage to face up to it and hurt him.
  我觉得我没勇气面对这件事，也不想伤害他。
• Television could face up to its own fantasies about race and begin to challenge Americans 'assumptions about themselves.
  电视可能会正视它自己对种族问题所抱的幻想，并且开始对美国人对自己的种种设想提出质疑。
• Or we can face up to the institutional impediments to growth I have described here.
  或者，我们也可以坦然面对我在文中描述的这种阻碍经济增长的机构问题。