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.
  1. 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。

英英释义

noun

• a major change in attitude or principle or point of view
  1. an about-face on foreign policy
  Synonym:volte-facereversalpolicy change
• act of pivoting 180 degrees, especially in a military formation
  Synonym:about turn

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。
• 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。
• A reversal, as in policy; an about-face.
  向后转转向反面，如在政策上；大转变。
• 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。
• The bank soon parachuted in top risk managers from its investment bank, to help evaluate the trade and the models and assumptions underpinning it; what they discovered forced an embarrassing about-face.
  摩根大通立即从投行部门抽调了两名顶尖的风控经理，帮助评估该交易、交易模型及模型的假设条件；二人发现的事实让摩根大通不得不尴尬地彻底改变此前的态度。
• The latest measure marked an about-face from Barak's earlier stance.
  巴拉克这一新举措与他早先的立场大相径庭。
• While film censorship isn't new in China, the abrupt about-face was unusual because controversial movies rarely make it through the approval process to begin with.
  虽然电影审查在中国不算新鲜事，但这种临时禁播一部影片的做法并不常见，因为存在争议的影片很少能通过审查登陆院线。
• 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。
• 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。