countenances
n.面容,表情:一个人的脸部特征,尤指表达情感的特征。
v.容忍,支持:默许或批准某种行为。
例句
Some of our ancestors are clearly inferior to us, with smaller brains and apelike countenances.
我们的有些祖先有着更小的大脑和类人猿似的脸,他们明显不如我们。
Indeed, the law countenances a gross dis-parity between the respective levels of coverage offered.
实际上,该法支持各自覆盖水平之间总的不平权。
It was not a combat, it was the interior of a furnace; there mouths breathed the flame; there countenances were extraordinary.
这不是一场战斗,这是一个火炉的炉膛。他们的嘴在吞吐火焰,他们的脸非常奇特。