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单词 confront
释义
confront
verb[T]
uk
/kənˈfrʌnt/us
/kənˈfrʌnt/
C2
toface,meet, ordealwith adifficultsituationorperson:
面对，面临；遭遇；直面，正视
As sheleftthecourt, she was confrontedbyangrycrowdswhotriedtoblockher way.她离开法庭时，愤怒的人群试图拦住她的去路。
It's anissuewe'll have to confront at somepoint, nomatterhowunpleasantit is.不管它有多讨厌，我们终究要面对这个问题。
IthoughtI wouldstaycalm, but when I was confrontedwith/bythe TVcamera, I got verynervous.我以为我会保持镇静，可是面对电视镜头，我却变得紧张万分。
More examples
  • She was confronted by a manwieldingaknife.
  • We were confronted with a lot ofproblemswhen wetriedtobuyahousein Germany.
  • He confronted hisillnesswithcharacteristicbravery.
  • Shedecidedto confront theburglars.
  • Thepolicewere confronted bycrowdsof rioters.
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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Phrasal verb

confrontsomeonewithsomething
(Definition ofconfrontfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

confront| American Dictionary

confront
verb[T]
us
/kənˈfrʌnt/
todealwith adifficultproblem,situation, orperson:
Heforcedthecountryto confront theissueofdeforestation.
When I tookoffice, I was confronted with newguidelines.
Becca will have to confront somefrighteningtruthsabout thisdisease.
To confront someone is tomeetwith apersonwith whom youdisagreeor whom you willaccuseof something:
I had to confront him about thedamageto thecar.
(Definition ofconfrontfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofconfront

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It is usually bothersome to be confronted with statements about the supposed universal nature of a particular linguistic phenomenon.
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Cotton, wheat, and tobacco farmers confronted an uncertain economic environment and were willing to accept restrictions on production in exchange for high, guaranteed prices.
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But even when we have such information of partial effects, weconfrontthe difficulty of adding up all partial effects.
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To grab hold of the certainty of experience, knowledge, or sensation is often difficult when confronting both sound and memory.
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All these cases, however, were resolved by eliciting confessions from the suspects after confronting them with the evidence.
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Like a message in a bottle, it forces the reader to journey across time, toconfrontan unmediated image of the eighteenth-century past.
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This represented a dramatic moment of instantiation of both continuity and change of tradition for a community in the process of confronting change.
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They confronted the economic troubles of that decade already having enacted national programs to provide health care to all their citizens.
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They extricate themselves from appalling conditions and bravelyconfronttheir villainous oppressors, while through coincidental circumstances they are elevated to a higher social position.
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The first volume was published in 1907 and now we are confronted with the eighth.
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He confronts their epistemological incapacity with the religious point of view based on the authority of revelation.
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Informal workshops for police and youth were likewise arranged in order to foster awareness of the issues and concerns confronting each side.
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An appreciation of narrative, however, should merely be an issue of confronting existing preconceptions.
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They completely lack any apparatus suited to confronting phenomena of this order.
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A further problem confronting all three of these initiatives has been that of external assistance.
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