refuse to countenance
collocation拒绝容忍；拒不支持
The board refused to countenance any further spending.
董事会拒绝容忍任何进一步的支出。
支持；认可；容忍
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支持；认可；容忍
To tolerate, support, or approve of something.
The manager never countenances dishonesty among the staff.
这位经理从不容忍员工的不诚实行为。
容忍,支持,认可,赞助或批准某事。
To tolerate, support, sanction, patronise or approve of something.
countenance
Base
原形
countenances
3rd person
第三人称单数
countenancing
-ing
现在分词
countenanced
Past
过去式
countenanced
Past participle
过去分词
She countenances no excuses.
她不容忍任何借口。
The teacher countenanced the student's late submission.
老师容许了学生迟交作业。
They have never countenanced such rudeness.
他们从未容忍过如此无礼。
注意：该动词为规则变化。
Most residents countenanced the plan for a new community garden.
大多数居民支持建设一个新社区花园的计划。
I cannot countenance such careless mistakes in the final report.
我不能容忍最终报告中出现这样粗心的错误。
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拒绝容忍；拒不支持
The board refused to countenance any further spending.
董事会拒绝容忍任何进一步的支出。
认可某种想法；赞成某个主意
The manager would not countenance the idea of remote work.
经理不会认可远程办公的想法。
准许使用；容忍使用
The school does not countenance the use of phones in class.
学校不容忍上课时使用手机。
容忍暴力；认可暴力行为
The organization does not countenance violence in any form.
该组织不容忍任何形式的暴力。
公开支持；公开认可
The senator openly countenanced the proposed amendment.
这位参议员公开支持拟议的修正案。
保持镇定；不动声色，尤指忍住不笑
She struggled to keep her countenance when he walked in wearing a clown costume.
当他穿着小丑服装走进来时，她努力保持镇定（忍住不笑）。
支持；赞同；纵容
The school refuses to give countenance to any form of bullying.
学校拒绝纵容任何形式的霸凌行为。
窘迫；局促不安
The rebuke left him rather out of countenance.
这一斥责使他相当窘迫。
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把 countenance 联想成“面容、脸色”：看到别人的神情（脸色）后选择容忍、认可，即“支持”这一动作。
语域：formal 常见场景：formal documents、official statements、formal speech 作动词时，countenance 通常用于正式语境，表示‘容忍、支持或认可’，多用于书面语或正式表态；日常口语中较少使用。
没有常用词与 countenance 完全押韵。count 和 account 的发音都以 /kaʊnt/ 收尾，彼此押韵，并与 countenance 的开头相同；mountain 也含 /aʊnt/ 的发音片段。maintenance 拼写与 countenance 的后缀 -tenance 相似，但重读元音是 /eɪ/，不是 /aʊ/，不押韵。appearance 共享 -ance，announce 共享 oun 拼写，但都不是同韵词。
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