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单词 countenance
释义
countenance
noun
formal
uk
/ˈkaʊn.tən.əns/us
/ˈkaʊn.t̬ən.əns/

countenancenoun(FACE)

[CorU]
theappearanceorexpressionof someone'sface:
面容；脸色；面部表情
He was ofnoblecountenance.他的面容显得很高贵。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
The head & face
  • -cheeked
  • -chinned
  • -faced
  • -necked
  • cheekbone
  • chin
  • chiselled
  • dimpled
  • duck face
  • frontal
  • jowl
  • mandible
  • maxillofacial
  • modiolus
  • mug
  • nose
  • nucha
  • nuchal
  • physiognomy
  • weak
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countenancenoun(APPROVAL)

[U]
approval:
赞同
We will notgive/lendcountenancetoanykindofterrorism.我们不赞同任何形式的恐怖主义。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Accepting & agreeing
  • acceptance
  • accepting
  • accommodation
  • accreditation
  • agree tosomething
  • agree withsomething
  • approved
  • concur
  • murmur
  • reconcile
  • rise
  • root
  • rule
  • sanction
  • seeyourway (clear) todoing somethingidiom
  • self-acceptance
  • self-acknowledged
  • self-admitted
  • settle onsomething
  • unanimous
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countenance
verb[T]
formal
uk
/ˈkaʊn.tən.əns/us
/ˈkaʊn.t̬ən.əns/
toapproveof or givesupportto something:
接受，认可；赞同；支持
Theschoolwill not countenancebadbehaviour.学校不会支持不端行为。
Synonyms
allow
let
permit
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Backing, supporting & defending
  • adopt
  • advocacy
  • affirmation
  • allyyourselfto/withsomeone
  • argumentation
  • backbone
  • badge
  • bailout
  • champion
  • keep the flag flyingidiom
  • recommended
  • red carpet
  • reinforce
  • right behindsomeoneidiom
  • roll out the red carpetidiom
  • root
  • root forsomeone
  • stick
  • stick together
  • sympathetic
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Approving & approval
(Definition ofcountenancefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

countenance| American Dictionary

countenance
noun[C/U]
us
/ˈkɑʊn·tən·əns/

countenancenoun[C/U](FACE)

literature
theappearanceorexpressionof someone’sface:
[C]Her countenancemaskedherfeelings.
countenance
verb[T]
us
/ˈkɑʊn·tən·əns/

countenanceverb[T](APPROVE OF)

tofindanactivityacceptable; toapproveof or givesupportto something:
Thisschoolwill not countenancelateness.
(Definition ofcountenancefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofcountenance

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By compromising illusion, theatre-in-theround subverts the artistic hegemony the proscenium countenances.
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An evolutionarily informed theory of action countenances overlapping causal domains: neurobiological, psychological, and rational.
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Thus, just as mathematical constr uctivism countenances only those mathematical entities that can be constr ucted from a proof,18 political construc17.
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Their happy "countenances" were as easy to read as plain pictures.
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The problem with inclusive legal positivism is that it countenances rules that are incapable of either directly or indirectly epistemically guiding conduct.
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Evolution would have been countenanced long before, but for the opposition from landed and clerical interests who feared its deadly threat to the divine ordering of the world.
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Should this sceptical scenario be countenanced, it would appear that realists go beyond their epistemic rights in inferring from a theory's success, to its probable truth or verisimilitude.
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In each of the four cases, the deaths are in a real sense instrumental, necessary for the greater good, envisaged, foreseen, and voluntarily countenanced for that very reason.
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Given the relation between a predicate and the property that is its meaning, it follows that adopting a particular predicate scheme entails countenancing a particular distribution of properties.
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If that option is to be countenanced, what price now the purchaser-provider split?
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I hope that these social considerations, which have carried weight in the past, will not be countenanced in this organisation.
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I do not want for a moment to minimize mutiny or revolt in time of war: it is a terrible thing, which cannot be countenanced.
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The amount of work involved is too great for that to be countenanced.
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I was dismayed to hear they have now countenanced this, and unless some change of policy takes place they will go ahead.
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They are all against the public interest and would never be countenanced.
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