countenance

英['ka?nt(?)n?ns;-t?n-] 美['ka?nt?n?ns]

第三人稱單數:?countenances;過去式:?countenanced;過去分詞:?countenanced;現在分詞:?countenancing;

1. contain => countenance: 包含的表情，面容、表情寫在、包含在臉上。

countenance 面容，表情，支持

來自contain, 包含，控制，對內心情感的控制，表情。后詞義進一步褒義化，贊賞，支持。

countenance: countenance: [13] A person’s countenance has nothing to do with computation. Etymologically, it is how they ‘contain’ themselves, or conduct themselves, and the word itself is a parallel construction with continence. It was borrowed from Old French contenance (a derivative of the verb contenir ‘contain’), which meant ‘behaviour’, ‘demeanour’, or ‘calmness’ as well as ‘contents’, and originally had this somewhat abstract sense in English.

It was not until the 14th century that the meaning began to develop through ‘facial expression’ to the now familiar ‘face’ (traces of the original sense survive in such expressions as ‘put someone out of countenance’, meaning to make them lose their cool).
=> contain, continence
countenance (v.): late 15c., "to behave or act," from countenance (n.). Sense of "to favor, patronize" is from 1560s, from notion of "to look upon with sanction or smiles." Related: Countenanced; countenancing.
countenance (n.): mid-13c., from Old French contenance "demeanor, bearing, conduct," from Latin continentia "restraint, abstemiousness, moderation," literally "way one contains oneself," from continentem, present participle of continere (see contain). Meaning evolving Middle English from "appearance" to "facial expression betraying a state of mind," to "face" itself (late 14c.).

1. America won't countenance any such circumvention of the sanctions.: 美國不會贊成任何規避制裁的行為。

2. Jake would not countenance Janis's marrying while still a student.: 杰克不會同意賈尼斯還在上學就結婚。

5. At the sight of this photograph he changed his countenance.: 他一看見這張照片臉色就變了.