face up to

英 [feɪs ʌp tu]

美 [feɪs ʌp tu]

（使）直面，正视（真相、现实等）

柯林斯词典

• → see:face 5

双语例句

• You could face up to eight years in jail for spreading rumours considered prejudicial to security
  散布危害社会安全的谣言将被判入狱8年。
• We hope they will face up to the grave situation prevailing there.
  我们希望他们能正视那儿的严重局势。
• We should face up to the fact that we are no longer young.
  我们应该勇敢承认和面对我们已不再年轻这一事实。
• They argued with him, but he could not face up to reality.
  他们和他辩论，但是他仍不能正视现实。
• But to do so we must face up to realities.
  但要想这样，我们必须面对现实。
• There are dangers which you must face up to.
  有危险，你必须勇敢地面对。
• We should learn to face up to reality.
  我们要学会敢于面对事实。
• We must face up to our responsibilities and not try to get out of them.
  我们必须勇敢地担当起我们的责任，而不应当试图推卸责任。
• Japan must face up to the past, if it wants to lead in the future.
  日本若想要主导未来，就必须正视历史。
• Or we can face up to the institutional impediments to growth I have described here.
  或者，我们也可以坦然面对我在文中描述的这种阻碍经济增长的机构问题。