face-up

What does face up mean

Basic explanation

Adv.: face up
Network: facing up; Face up type; Face up

English Chinese interpretation

• Face up

example sentence

• The HK government needs to grow a backbone and face up to its own pollution problems and stop caving in to money.

  The Hong Kong government must straighten their backbone, face up to their environmental problems, and stop yielding to money.

• And we"d better face up to it and formulate some strategies for coping with it, even if it"s not a certainty.

  Even if it is not true, we have to face it and figure out how to deal with it.

• Susan lost her legs in a car accident. for a time she didn"t know how to face up to the fact that she never walk again.

  Susan lost her legs in a car accident. For a while, she really didn't know how to face the fact that she could no longer walk.

• Orangutan mothers face up to eight years of single parenthood raising their infants.

  The orangutan mother has to be a single parent who raises children alone for up to eight years.

• She had to face up to the fact that she would never walk again.

  She must dare to face the reality that she can no longer walk.

• He pleaded guilty to running a dogfighting operation out of his home in southern Virginia . He could face up to 5 years in prison .

  He admitted organizing dog fights at his home in South Virginia and faced five years in prison.

• Huang, one of the main characters of which Verde has been fixed but things like sound like a snowball growing, so have to face up to.

  Huang Weide, one of the main characters, has been silent for a long time, but now things are getting bigger and bigger like a snowball, so we have to face it squarely.

• He has never been able to face up to the realities.

  He can never face the reality boldly.

• the fine lines of your eyes so that I could not bear to face up to its smooth face As it is with you in exchange for the beauty.

  The fine lines around your eyes make me can't bear to face up to my smooth face, because it's all bought with your beauty.

• In doing so it will have to face up to long-neglected problems, if this is to lead to a true recovery, not just a brief reprieve.

  In doing so, if we want to move towards real recovery rather than temporary relief, we must face the problems that we have neglected for a long time.