saving face
常见例句
- I wander in the crowd for the sake of saving face.
我扛著麪子流浪在人群之中。 - First, this is a person who is preoccupied with preserving his status and saving face.
首先，此人會不惜一切保全自己的地位，維護自己的麪子。 - This helps us to explain, for instance, why in so many cultures the concept of saving face is so important, even if to most modern Americans it seems relatively trivial.
這就很容易解釋，爲什麽很多文化裡的麪子問題,會變得那麽重要，而對許多美國人來說,那都是小事一樁。 - Sudan's Committee of Islamic Scholars has urged the president not to attend, for fear of his safety, providing Mr.Bashir a possible way of saving face while backing out of the trip.
- This helps us to explain, for instance, why in so many cultures the concept of saving face is so important, even if to most modern Americans it seems relatively trivial.
這就很容易解釋，爲什麽很多文化裡的麪子問題,會變得那麽重要，而對許多美國人來說,那都是小事一樁。
耶魯公開課 - 政治哲學導論課程節選 - The counter article about 'lazy men' was also a very sad attempt at saving face.
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