These students do not want to get in trouble or seem irresponsible, so they make up an excuse—a lie—to save face.
这些学生不想惹麻烦或显得不负责任，所以他们编造了一个借口——一个谎言——来挽回面子。
But I'm going to need your help to concoct a story that will help me save face!
但你得帮我编造个故事，好给我留点脸面！
But the questioner had to save face. The game wasn't going the way he'd planned.
然而，那人却要挽回面子，因为游戏没有依照他的想法来进行。
After these big problems at factory, to save face, the company had to blame the machinery.
这个工厂出了严重问题后，为了顾及面子，总是把错误归咎于机器故障。
Koong and Screed escaped, and the Governor tried to save face in front of the unimpressed Imperial.
孔和斯克里德逃了出来。孔总督想在失望的帝国高官眼前挽回脸面。
Chandler tries to save face and makes the 'OK' sign with his hands, while obviously unable to breathe.
钱德勒想保持正常表情，做了个“没事”的手势，但很明显已不能呼吸。
Paying attention to politeness in spoken English is to save face of both the listener and the speaker.
在英语口语中注意礼貌是为了保留双方的面子。
After an adequate time elapses for everybody to save face, relations resume as normal and all is forgotten.
在过去的很长一段时间里，大家都在这样保全面子。
So some people may be trying to save face because they didn't nail down the resources they should have nailed down.
所以某些人可能试图挽回面子，因为他们在应该获得那些资源的时候却没有得到它们。
When giving a colleague lukewarm feedback, Nelson says, "Being indirect spares the person's feelings and helps them save face."
她说，“在给同事不冷不热的反应时，不会直接的伤害他们的感情，帮他们保全了面子。”
In Chinese culture, people want to save face of both themselves and others, so they would not express their ideas directly.
在中国文化中，人们想要挽回面子的两个自己和他人，所以他们不会直接表达自己的想法。
To be accused of a fault is to "lose face," and the fact must be denied, no matter what the evidence, in order to save face.
犯了错被人揭发出来，就是“丢脸”，所以不管证据多么确凿，也必须否认事实，以保住面子。
To try to save face, Microsoft executives pointed out that they had saved a copy of the deleted blog postings and sent them to Zhao.
为了挽回颜面，微软高层指出他们备份了被删掉的博客日志，并把他们寄给了安替。
Is it possible to save face, when people are looking at you with gaping mouths, silently asking themselves "What were you thinking?"
当别人目瞪口呆，轻轻地问“你在想啥呢”的时候，你还能保住自己的脸面吗？
To save face and appear to be taking action, the board may even fire him-thus giving up on someone who may be a good manager but had bad luck.
为了挽回颜面并显示有所作为，董事会甚至可能开除他，从而对这个可能是走了坏运气的好经理不再抱任何希望。
A miraculous buzzer beater with. 6 seconds by Rajon Rondo not only helped Ray Allen save face but also propelled the Celtics to top the Heat.
拉简-隆多终场前6秒神奇的最后一投不仅帮助雷·阿伦挽回的颜面，也帮助了球队成绩凌驾于热火之上。
The one thing that is not in BA’s interests is a messy compromise that allows Unite to save face. Given that Mr Walsh holds all the cards, that seems unlikely.
英航有一处不感兴趣的地方就是一个零乱的妥协使得机组人员可以挽回点颜面，沃尔什似乎并没有掌握所有的王牌。
The one thing that is not in BA's interests is a messy compromise that allows Unite to save face. Given that Mr Walsh holds all the CARDS, that seems unlikely.
英航有一处不感兴趣的地方就是一个零乱的妥协使得机组人员可以挽回点颜面，沃尔什似乎并没有掌握所有的王牌。
Causing another to lose face may be unavoidable at times, although strong cultural norms in America suggest that one goal of relationships is to help others save face.
造成他人丢脸可能是防不胜防的，虽然美国的文化道德准则所建议的关系目标之一就是帮人挽回面子。
The deal on Banks' swaps desks was grubbier still: a nonsensical compromise to allow Senator Blanche Lincoln, author of a proposal to force Banks to spin these off, to save face.
对银行掉期产品的处理也卑劣依旧：荒谬的妥协是为了保全提出迫使银行关闭这些交易的参议员布朗什·林肯保全颜面。
The U.K.-based Save the children Fund warned Sunday thousands of young children in cyclone-hit areas face starvation within weeks unless emergency food supplies reach the areas soon.
设在英国的救助儿童会星期天警告说，灾区有成千上万名儿童几个星期内将面临饥饿问题，除非紧急食物援助尽快抵达这些灾区。
Save for the Predictable and the Unexpected - We're all going to face retirement someday, and the best time to save for it is now.
为了可预见性和不可预见性的事情而储蓄- - -我们全部有一天将会面对退休，而且最好的储蓄时间是现在。
Miners of these metals daily face crises similar to Camec's and mothballing mines around the world to save cash as they wait for a price recovery.
开采上述金属矿的生产商每天所面对的危机与中非矿业类似，为了等待价格回升，它们也得封存遍布全球的矿产以节省现金支出。
What Greeks and Italians endure today, other eurozone nations might well face tomorrow as they are told to make similar sacrifices of autonomy to save their economic skin.
希腊人民和意大利人民今天所忍受的一些，也许其它欧元区国家明天同样会面对，他们被告知做出同样的自主牺牲，以进行自我保护。
Western consumers, facing higher taxes and lower benefits, will no longer have the freedom to spend; indeed, they will want to save more as they face long retirements.
在更高的税率和更低的收入面前，西方消费者再也不能自由自在的消费。实际上，为了漫长的退休生活，他们必须储蓄更多的钱。
We're both trying to save animals that face extinction.
我们都试图去挽救濒危动物。
But if the right kind of claim is filed in the proper court, a judge may soon have to face the question of whether an injunction might be needed to save the world.
然而，一旦有适当的法庭对于合乎情理的控诉进行立案的话，案件的法官很快就得面对这样的问题：是否需要法庭发布禁令以拯救整个世界。
But if the right kind of claim is filed in the proper court, a judge may soon have to face the question of whether an injunction might be needed to save the world.
然而，一旦有适当的法庭对于合乎情理的控诉进行立案的话，案件的法官很快就得面对这样的问题：是否需要法庭发布禁令以拯救整个世界。
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