1·Some people need to confront a traumatic past; others find it better to leave it alone.
一些人需要面对伤痕累累的过去；另一些人认为最好不管它。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
2·We are too frightened to confront the facts because doing so means confronting the danger that most of what supports our sense of who we are could disappear.
我们都太害怕以至于不敢面对事实，因为如果这样做的话，意味着我们会使得支撑我们是谁的那些意义遭遇危险。
3·Yes, I am hiding from something, the only thing I am reluctant to confront in my life.
是的，我在逃离，逃离某种东西，那是一种在我人生中我唯一不想面对的东西。
4·Instead, I would rather raise issues, make people confront them, and then let them figure out how to solve the problems.
相反，我宁愿提出问题、让大家面对这些问题，然后让他们找出解决这些问题的方法。
5·"We have to confront the fact that there are women who are making these choices," she said.
她说，“我们不得不面对这个事实：有些情况下是妇女自己做出堕胎的决定的！”
1·Whether we end up fighting one another or whether we work together to confront common threats—our fate, our common wealth, is in our hands.
是要停止继续你争我夺还是团结起来对抗我们共同的威胁——我们的命运，我们共同的财富，完全取决于我们自己。
2·The two fleets expect to meet in the Antarctic whale sanctuary before Christmas and will shadow and confront each other for at least 12 weeks.
双方舰队将在圣诞节前相会于南极鲸鱼保护区，并在接下来的至少12个星期里相互追踪相互对抗。
3·That is all the more reason to confront this new illness as aggressively and rapidly as we can.
这就更有理由尽可能积极主动和行动迅速地对抗这种新疾病。
4·Livni took a much tougher line on Iran, saying Israel and the international community need to confront Tehran and not appease it.
利夫尼对伊朗则采取了比较强硬的态度。她说，以色列和国际社会需要对抗德黑兰，而不是安抚德黑兰。
5·What could have turned into a silly story, bordering on wacky, is actually a touching tale about a man who needs to confront his own life and needs other people around to help him.
这个看似愚蠢近似荒唐的故事，实际上讲的却是一个人在对抗自己的生活的同时也需要周围人帮忙的一个感人故事。
1·We will confront hardships.
我们会遭遇困难。
2·Pudrovska points specifically to "the problem of legitimacy" that women confront in the workplace.
普德洛夫斯卡娃将矛头指向了女性在职场中遭遇的“正统性问题”。
3·The bacterial pathogens confront innate im-munity firstly when they invade host followed by acquired immunity. Both of them play defensive funtion to eliminish the invasive bacteria.
致病性细菌侵入机体后，首先遭遇到天然免疫的抵抗，随后产生获得性免疫，两者共同执行机体的防御功能，消灭入侵细菌。
4·In recent years, this admirable system of self-government has had to confront a number of centralizing challenges from the university, of the kind that led to my own exit from the place;
最近一些年，这种自我管理的可敬体系开始遭遇大学权力集中模式的的挑战，就是这种挑战导致我离开这里；