confront

1 So I decided to confront her about the free-lance work I’d done for her firm, eight pages of brochure copy on its tax services.

2 He believed that if the Koreans were honest about where they came from and were willing to confront those aspects of their heritage that did not suit the aviation world, they could change.

3 The political official is confronted with much negative reaction from the people.

那位政客面对来自人民的反对很尴尬.

4 He felt slightly nervous at confronting the first hurdle of his Captaincy.

5 That was the Adams pattern: first to deny his political ambitions, much like Jefferson; then to confront them, feel guilty about them, fidget over them; then grudgingly admit they were part of who he was.

6 Then one of them confronted old humpbacked Nammy Proggs, who was standing not far from the entrance to the Small Items shop.

7 It was late afternoon, and there was no way I could take the bus to Tembisa to confront the principal about what surely must be a mistake.

8 She hadn’t pictured herself confronting him caged and starving, hands bound, dressed in rags.

9 People are easily intimidated when the police confront them, hands on their revolvers, and most have no idea the question can be answered, “No.”

10 Shawn was too strong, she said, too persuasive, for her to confront him alone.

11 It felt like the entirety of Granger history was watching me as I heard Noah confronting Stephanie around the corner.

12 How he felt humanity squeeze his hand, and how he let that hand go — shook himself free of it, even, like a young boy confronted with an overardent admirer.

13 I was again faced with the dilemma of Valentine’s Day, confronting another strange ritual I did not understand.

14 But the storm still raged within Elsinore’s walls, as Laertes’ hot anger confronted the cold might of Claudius.

15 Stooping to gather the dropped clippings, she was confronted by the face of Sam Westing.

16 Part of me always wondered what my father would do if directly confronted with the truth.

17 Holding my hand to keep his balance, as trees and bushes made strange, sliding movements in his peripheral vision, Lefty was confronting the possibility that consciousness was a biological accident.

18 She usually doesn’t confront my brother like that.

19 So easy to be like the others, not to have to confront those terrible eyes every morning.

20 When the public protests, confronted with some obvious evidence of damaging results of pesticide applications, it is fed little tranquilizing pills of half truth.

1 面临

face front encounter head in face exposure expose bring up against up against meet before commit affront bide be up against in the face of faced with confronted with confronted by look upon confront with look out on

2 对质

confrontation counterview

3 使遭遇

happen

4 面对

ob- face breast in face come up against confrontation vis-a-vis front dare envisage affront look out upon carry the can for expose be staring at orient bring up against in the face of reckon with opposition facing fornent to toward in face of confrontational look towards give on to faced with confronted with face to face confronted by look upon be faced with look out on

5 对照

antithetical comparison contrast opposition antithesis contraposition -ison compare antithetic contrapositive control balance counterpoint contrapose check oppose confer collate checkup set off against contradistinctive distinction collation collative compared contrastive contrastively cross-reference against cross-refer

6 逼近

impending loom move in close in gain on bear down

7 勇敢地面对

square face brave stick up to

8 处理

treatment conduct concentration take see process cover Field deal action speak manage treat handle touch dress hack cope dispose crunch transact lace into get shot of attack transaction settlement handling disposal do play face field address organize solve tackle get on top of be shot of deal with take care of get through attend to dispose of contend with take care of yourself manipulation approach deliver sort capture navigate negotiate go beyond come at work through sort out engage with see about straighten out wade through

9 正视

face meet eye meet square up to emmetropia stigmatism square envisage face to face

10 相对

relative opposite comparative contradictory vis-a-vis counter oppose toe to toe

11 使对比

contrast oppose

12 遇到

fall meet hit run up against

13 与…相对

over vis-a-vis as opposed to

14 反抗

rebel rebellious rearguard mutinous rise exception resistance rebellion kick react mutiny mock antagonize outface counterwork oppugn trail coat bid defiance to

15 解决

resolution settlement do solve resolve settle tackle cure overcome clinch mend surmount get round deal with work out get over get around dispose of

16 比较

relative comparative compare comparison parallel balance weigh contrastive comparatively than proportion confrontation with scale measure match confer paragon parallelize lay together cf compared proportionally syncrisis parallelism versus contrast draw a parallel between

17 勇敢面对

stick up to

18 对证

retrospect retrospection

19 遭遇

shoe fare meet face encounter bechance CUP rencounter fall affront catch run up against visit upon

20 使面对

face expose orient

21 使面临

expose

22 对比

analogic balance contrast parallel correlation counterpoint contradistinction dissimilitude contradistinguish oppose contrastive distinction confrontation scale mate

23 对付

handling face address approach absorb cope conquer deal with get on attend to contend with deal manage hack

24 对抗

war reaction encounter clash rivalry confrontation face-off antagonism go-around anti- front counter beard withstand grapple counteract countervail face off rival opposition meet oppose antagonize counterwork oppugn white backlash v opposing antagonistic hostility versus compete contrary adversarial resist

25 与对抗

face off