face-saving

单词face-saving

基本解释

adj.: 保全面子的
网络: 保全体面的；留面子；顾全面子的

权威解释

• 保全面子的:

  intended to protect sb"s reputation and to avoid embarrassment

英汉解释

• 保全体面的

同义词

adj.dignifiedtacticaldiplomatictactfulrestorative

反义词

adj.humiliating

例句

• But observers said the agreement was a face-saving compromise, providing the embattled Chinese negotiator with badly-needed support.

  但观察人士表示，该协议是为留存面子而作出的妥协，给处境艰难的中方谈判团提供了他们亟需的帮助。

• The attorney-general"s ruling that there was no evidence of wrongdoing merely provided face-saving cover for his inevitable exit.

  司法部长宣示未发现任何不法行为的证据，只是给他一块遮羞布，替他在无法避免的下台之前保留颜面。

• "Of course, the face-saving way is to say "postpone, " he said, but Internet users "are declaring their victory.

  他说，当然，避免丢脸的做法就是宣布“推迟”实施，不过互联网用户却在宣布自己获得了胜利。

• But the various escape clauses that Vietnam insisted upon suggest it was more of a face-saving measure than a firm pledge.

  但是越南坚持多项免责条款，使得这项合约与其说是一项坚定的承诺，还不如说是为保面子的措施。

• Take her to one side and offer her a lot of money, a face-saving story and a great reference, and usher her gently out of the door.

  把她叫到一边，给她一大笔钱，编造为她保留颜面的话，再写很棒的评语，和颜悦色地把她送出门。

• Face-saving projects without delay, because the moment of completion do not know when, long way to go.

  面子工程刻不容缓，因为还不知道竣工那一刻是何时，任重而道远。

• Americans do not like illusion that extend endlessly like Frenchmen, say that style, keen on face saving like Englishmen either. U. S.

  美国人不象法国人那样喜欢漫无边际的幻想，也不象英国人那样讲派头、要面子。

• The United Nations formed the Palmer Commission to come up with a face-saving way for the two countries to patch their differences.

  联合国成立以帕尔默为首的调查小组为两国弥和分歧找出体面方法。

• So the government needed a face-saving way out of the latest fine mess it had gotten the project into.

  因此，政府需要以一种体面的方式摆脱他们造成的这一项目的最新尴尬局面。

• For all the face-saving intellectual contortions , everyone knows it"s Adam Smith and not Karl Marx at the rudder of this communist economy.

  对于所有的顾全面子的智力扭弯，每个人它是亚当史密斯和不在这共产主义者经济的舵卡尔马克思。