face-off

英 [ˈfeɪs ɒf]

美 [ˈfeɪs ɔːf]

n.  辩论; 搏斗; (冰球赛的)开球

复数：face-offs　

牛津词典

noun

• 辩论；搏斗
  an argument or a fight
  1. a face-off between the presidential candidates
     总统候选人之间的辩论
• （冰球赛的）开球
  the way of starting play in a game of ice hockey

英英释义

noun

• (ice hockey) the method of starting play
• a hostile disagreement face-to-face
  Synonym:confrontationencountershowdown

双语例句

• Research on the Post-IPO Financial Performance Face-off of Listed Companies in China
  上市公司IPO之后财务业绩变脸研究
• Lori greased up before the big face-off.
  罗瑞事前在手上涂了猪油。
• A face-off also restarts the game after each goal.
  脸小康也重新启动游戏后，每一个目标。
• The two university debate teams are scheduled for a televised face-off this evening at one of the shanghai TV studios.
  那两支大学辩论队定于今晚在一个上海电视台举行电视直播较量。
• The two armies are locked in a face-off.
  两军对峙。
• Being a member of NATO and in the front of the western-eastern face-off, the FRG was deeply involved in this confrontation.
  作为北约组织成员并处于东西方对抗前沿的联邦德国，深深地卷入了这场对抗之中。
• Pedestrian face-off is an awkward situation in which two pedestrians, who are on a collision course with each other, are repeatedly unsuccessful in averting one another.
  （暂译为“迎面相撞”）指的是两个行人迎面相撞，又屡次相互躲闪失败这样一个尴尬的情景。
• On the contrary, register, want pieces of doctrine register biological right result of change between the party, there is no effect of the third person of face-off.
  相反，登记要件主义当事人之间未经登记不发生物权变动之效果，也无对抗第三人的效力。
• Most damaging was the face-off over the Senkaku Islands last fall, in which the Japanese Coast Guard arrested the captain of a Chinese fishing vessel in the disputed waters.
  对中日关系破坏最大的当属去年秋季两国围绕尖阁列岛（SenkakuIslands，中国称钓鱼岛&译注）问题展开的对抗。日本海上保安厅（JapaneseCoastGuard）在争议水域逮捕了一名中国渔船船长。
• In one, Iran ends up with nuclear weapons, bringing new instability and a hair-trigger face-off with nuclear Israel into one of the world's least-safe neighbourhoods.
  第一，伊朗停止会带来新一轮的不稳定和使以色列从千钧一发的核对峙到最不安全的领国的核试验。