countenance

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++coun·te·nance1 /ˈkaʊntənəns/ noun [countable]EXPRESSION ON somebody'S FACE literary your face or your expression 面容；面部表情 All colour drained from her countenance. 她面无血色。

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countenance• His dignified person and agreeable countenance, with the most unaffected affability gave me high satisfaction.• Then she put down the hairbrush and inspected her countenance.• Despite his troubles, his countenance was always friendly.• He remembered the merchant, long, lanky, and lugubrious of countenance.countenance2 verb [transitive] ACCEPT formal to accept, support, or approve of something 支持；赞同；认可countenance (somebody) doing something I will not countenance you being rude to Dr Baxter. 我不赞同你粗鲁地对待巴克斯特博士。→ See Verb table

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countenance• Fabricators will try to make their account watertight and will not countenance accepting any blame.• Yet the irreligious Jinnah wanted two religious states, while the religious Gandhi would countenance only a united secular state.• This has resulted in a deadlock where neither side will countenance providing an amnesty for the other for crimes against humanity.• Would he really countenance such a daft proposal?• He said that he would not countenance such an attack, and ordered Clark to call it off.• How could I possibly countenance such thoughts?• In no way will we countenance terrorism in order to advance our cause.Origin countenance1 (1200-1300) Old French contenance “behavior”, from Latin continentia “holding back from doing what you want, continence”, from continere; → CONTAIN

coun·te·nance1 nouncountenance2 verbChineseSyllable

your or Corpus your expression face

countenance

coun‧te‧nance¹ /ˈkaʊntənəns, ˈkaʊntɪnəns/

noun

Date: 1200-1300
Language: Old French
Origin: contenance 'behavior', from Latin continentia 'holding back from doing what you want, continence', from continere; ⇨ contain

[countable] literary your face or your expression: