save face
基本解釋
- 扳回顏面，保住面子；保全面子
英漢例句
- So some people may be trying to save face because they didn’t nail down the resources they should have nailed down.
所以某些人可能試圖挽回面子，因?yàn)樗麄冊(cè)趹?yīng)該獲得那些資源的時(shí)候卻沒(méi)有得到它們。 - "The family finally got Kiman, the ex-boyfriend, as the new groom for Nuraini in order to save face in front of their guests," Krisnandi said.
克里斯南迪說(shuō)：“為在賓客面前保全面子，家人最后找到新娘的前男友基曼，娶走了新娘?！?br>www.chinadaily.com.cn - He dropped the gold down the chimney to save face for the impoverished father.
他將黃金扔進(jìn)煙囪以保留這位窮困的父親的臉面。 - "What it appears to be is an attempt to save face with the government, which is asking for help,".
- You try to save face and openly declare that a lost account was too small, anyway?
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