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单词 confronted
释义
confronted
adjective
uk
/kənˈfrʌn.tɪd/us
/kənˈfrʌn.t̬ɪd/
having todealwith something or someone that youfinddifficultorthreatening:
You canrecognizethevalueof anideabut alsofeelconfronted by it.
More examples
  • Somepeoplefeelconfronted by this because it makes themuncomfortableabout what they might becondoning.
  • Throughcommunicationstechnologywe areevermore confronted with theevilandhorrorsofourworld.
  • That's what he would do in a confrontedsituation.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Dealing with things or people
  • attend tosomeone/something
  • be all over itidiom
  • beard the lion (inhis/herden)idiom
  • bed
  • come/get to grips withsomethingidiom
  • cut
  • fire
  • hold onidiom
  • I/I've got thisidiom
  • ill-prepared
  • jump-start
  • overcome
  • people skills
  • toughsomethingout
  • turn
  • turn tosomeone/something
  • unprocessed
  • weather
  • weather the stormidiom
  • you/you've got thisidiom
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Difficult things and people
(Definition ofconfrontedfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofconfronted

confronted
It is usually bothersome to beconfrontedwith statements about the supposed universal nature of a particular linguistic phenomenon.
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Cotton, wheat, and tobacco farmersconfrontedan uncertain economic environment and were willing to accept restrictions on production in exchange for high, guaranteed prices.
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Theyconfrontedthe economic troubles of that decade already having enacted national programs to provide health care to all their citizens.
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The first volume was published in 1907 and now we areconfrontedwith the eighth.
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When employersconfrontedunions directly, employers, especially industrial employers, generally won.
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This makes a person more prone to attend to the situationconfrontedand to retain the information about it.
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We learned things we didn't know,confrontedissues we had not been thinking about, and were led to literature that we had long neglected.
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The mainstream groupsconfrontedtheir more critical counterparts in attempting to define the agenda and the scope of the debate.
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Through creative activities, the participants often found themselvesconfrontedwith their present condition.
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It is much harder to argue for an alternative judgement whenconfrontedwith counter claims of discrimination or other violations of fundamental rights.
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Other nations, of course, wereconfrontedby similar dilemmas.
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This everyday phrase neatly encapsulates the moral balancing act that many grandparents face whenconfrontedwith the divorce of their children.
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The fact that we often make mistakes should give us more pause whenconfrontedby a peer who thinks differently.
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Confrontedwith 28 pictures of the strike, he attempts to identify the photographers' motivations and how they represented the multiple actors involved in the strike.
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His confidence in his city's future growth enabled him to weave historical narratives thatconfrontedshameful episodes head on.
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