"It is clearly of grave concern to us when parliamentarians simply disappear from the face of the earth.

VOA: standard.2009.04.09

When she was three steps from him, the hands flew apart and his wrecked face and the terror of eyes gloried in burst veins stopped her.

在还有三步远的时候，老人移开了手,露出了带有着恐惧的眼睛,和兴奋得青筋暴突的脸。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

What he quotes from Levi-Strauss would seem, on the face of it, to have exactly the same kinds of reservation and hesitation about the emergence or birth of language that Derrida himself has.

他引用列维，施特劳斯的部分看上去，乍看起来，与德里达有同样的保留和迟疑,关于语言的诞生。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

But,it says wiping this deadly disease from the face of the earth poses a formidable challenge.

VOA: standard.2010.05.21

They face in the opposite direction and you could predict the properties of one from base pairing rules of the other but they're not the same.

它们是反向的,尽管你能够通过一条链上的碱基序列,预测另一条链的序列,但这两条链是不同的

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

The expression probably comes from the physical act of turning your back toward someone, instead of speaking to him face-to-face.

VOA: special.2009.12.13

For years, researchers blamed muscle tension from tightening in the face, neck and the skin on top of the head.

VOA: special.2010.03.30

Voice rumbling from the planet's core Face upturned; see Children of the universe, They shine in the night;

VOA: special.2009.04.17

But one of the authors of the study, Tim McClanahan from the Wildlife Conservation Society, says fisheries in Africa face another threat.

VOA: special.2009.08.11

In "Gift from the Sea", Missus Lindbergh wrote about the many different kinds of pressures that women face.

VOA: special.2009.06.28

"Today,in the face of violence from those who would only destroy, Iraqis took a step forward in the hard work of building up their country.

VOA: special.2010.03.13

One side of his face is hideously scarred - the result of a run-in with a Civil War veteran from the other side, the truly bad Quentin Turnbull.

VOA: standard.2010.06.20

On a related issue, the World Health Organization says pregnant women should be made aware of the risks they face from both seasonal flu and the H1N1 swine flu pandemic.

VOA: standard.2009.08.01

He said girls in one Dakar school explained to him some of the daily challenges they face, such as the lack of bathrooms in the school, bullying from boys, and a lack of textbooks.

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

Who could forget the ghostly figure of Freddy Krueger: a disfigured face long razor-sharp knives flash from his fingers and his sinister way of turning the dreams of his victims into deadly nightmares.

VOA: standard.2010.05.04

In the face of opposition from Independent Senator Joe Lieberman, and to gain his vote, Senate lawmakers first dropped the government insurance option and then an alternative plan to decrease the eligibility age for the existing government Medicare program.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

Mr.Thaksin,who remains in exile in the face of a two year jail sentence for corruption, maintains support from the northern rural areas as well as among the poor and low income groups due to populist economic policies while in office.

VOA: standard.2010.03.20