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 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。
In order to save face, maintain rich appearance and keep the credit of load, he is desperate to keep his air and impetus.
为了面子，为了维持富有的外表，为了维持借贷上的信用度，用尽心力在气派声势的保持上。
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？
When the Jacksons refused Tony's invitation to his party, he tried to save face among his friends by pretending he had no invited him.
当杰克逊家拒绝托尼请他们参加他的聚会的邀请时，他设法在他的朋友中保住面子，装作没有邀请过杰克逊他们一家。
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。
Nikita V. Petrov, a historian of Russian security services, said Moscow agreed to the deal "to save face" after the embarrassment of the arrests.
俄罗斯安全服务历史学家Nikita v .Petrov表示：莫斯科之所以同意这项交换是为了挽回在此事件中丢掉的脸面。
My foreign friend say:" The Chinese are dead determined to save face. " Dead determined to save face" is to say that die rather, also want the face.
我的外国朋友说：“中国人死要面子。”死要面子“就是说宁愿死，也要面子。
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。
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。
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。
I heard an apocryphal story about a Japanese firm that installed a turbine which needed electric power to keep it turning to save the face of its would-be-green owners.
我听说过一个杜撰的故事，一个日本公司安装了一台涡轮机，但却需要用电力来保持它运转来保护其“环保”的面子。
I heard an apocryphal story about a Japanese firm that installed a turbine which needed electric power to keep it turning to save the face of its would-be-green owners.
我听说过一个杜撰的故事，一个日本公司安装了一台涡轮机，但却需要用电力来保持它运转来保护其“环保”的面子。
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