about-face
英 [əˈbaʊt feɪs]
美 [əˈbaʊt feɪs]
n. (态度或观点的)彻底改变,完全转变
柯林斯词典
- N-COUNT (态度或观点的)彻底改变,大转变
Anabout-faceis a complete change of attitude or opinion.- Few observers believe the president will do an about-face and start spending more.
没有几个观察家认为总统会彻底改变态度而增加开支。
- Few observers believe the president will do an about-face and start spending more.
英英释义
noun
- a major change in attitude or principle or point of view
- an about-face on foreign policy
- act of pivoting 180 degrees, especially in a military formation
verb
- change one's mind and assume the opposite viewpoint
- turn, usually 180 degrees
双语例句
- It was an about-face for Moyal, a member of the hawkish Likud Party, who has been calling for the army to invade Gaza to end the rocket attacks.
他发出的呼吁和他以往的立场不一样。穆瓦亚尔过去一直呼吁以色列军队入侵加沙地带,从而结束火箭袭击。 - Few observers believe the president will do an about-face and start spending more.
没有几个观察家认为总统会彻底改变态度而增加开支。 - Two wayward humpback whales have done an about-face and are headed back toward the Pacific Ocean.
两只任性的驼背鲸终于肯调头游向他们的家&太平洋。 - The World Bank president's warning followed a dramatic about-face on Asia's growth prospects by the International Monetary Fund, which was clearly taken by surprise by the region's strong performance in the past six months.
佐利克发出上述警告之前,国际货币基金组织(IMF)大幅改变了其对亚洲增长前景的预测。亚洲地区过去6个月的强劲表现,显然令IMF感到吃惊。 - Emerald and radiant orchid actually look good together, Ms. Eiseman argues, but the one is such an about-face from the other that it's likely to encourage consumers to get out and shop in order to stay up to date.
她认为翡翠绿与璀璨兰花紫搭配在一起其实很好看,但后者与前者截然不同,所以它可能会促使消费者出门购置该色彩的行头以便跟上潮流。 - That was a near 100% about-face from a year ago, when the same group was mostly bullish on the shares of large companies and Berkshire ( BRKa) in particular.
这和一年前面临的情况发生了近乎一百八十度的大逆转,当时在座的还是这些投资者,但他们大多看好大型公司的股票,尤其是伯克希尔。 - While Beijing allowed the yuan to appreciate slightly against the dollar last year, recent signs of an economic slowdown pushed Chinese policy makers into an about-face this week.
尽管中国去年允许人民币对美元小幅升值,但由于最近有迹象显示经济增长放缓,中国的决策者本周开始改变立场。 - Go walk with the strikers, and you'll start to feel that the strike is less an about-face from July's atmosphere than a continuation of it.
和那些罢工的人走在一起,你就会开始感觉到与其说罢工是在重新转向世界杯期间那种氛围,不如说罢工就是世界杯氛围的延续。 - To judge by the reaction in Washington, DC, this was an about-face like Big Brother's conversion of Eurasia from foe to ally in Orwell's "1984".
华盛顿一百八十度大转弯真如奥威尔的《1984年》中老大哥对待欧亚国从敌人到同盟的转变。 - Jobs had initially opposed allowing outside developers to build apps for the iPhone, but he did a quick about-face once he realized he was wrong.
乔布斯最初反对让外部开发者为iPhone开发app,不过在认识到自己错了之后,就迅速改变了立场。