in the face

• Your theory is quite wrong; you are flying in the face of all the experts .
  你的意见是完全错误的，你是在公然反抗所有的专家。
• Already the sense of enmity between the two had weakened in the face of a common peril .
  两人中间的仇早就给共同的患难冲淡了。
• Our intellect goes largely on "hold" in the face of that much complexity .
  面对那种极其复杂的事，我们的才智多半变得拘束起来。
• What a tribute to his ability not to flinch in the face of storm and stress !
  这真是对他那面对暴风骤雨毫不畏缩的本领的大表扬！
• A large, soft tomato, unerringly aimed, stuck the chairman in the face .
  一只又大又烂的西红柿，不偏不倚地正好打在董事长的脸上。
• Flexible exchange rates seem to perform better in the face of shifts in export demand .
  看来变动汇率在面临出口需求变动时能发挥较好的作用。
• He was free from all sycophancy or obsequiousness in the face of the reactionary ruling class ..
  他在反动统治阶级面前没有丝毫的奴颜与媚骨。
• Flexible exchange rates yield an intermediate outcome in the face of capital-flow shocks .
  变动汇率在面临资本流动冲击时能产生一种缓冲的效果。
• Repeated price hikes in the face of unchanging demand can be a formula for economic suicide .
  在总需求不变情况下，一再提高价格，等于经济自杀。