to support sth or agree to sth happening
The committee refused to countenance his proposals.
委员会拒不同意他的方案。
1.容貌,相貌;脸色,气色;面目
2.奖励;鼓励;纵容;支持,赞助
3.镇定
1.暗暗奖励,嘉奖;支持,赞助,鼓动;纵容,默认
1.your face, or the expression on your face
1.to approve of something, or to allow something to happen
1.He will shake his head, and clap his hands, and whisper much, and change his countenance.
那时，他就要摇头鼓掌，出言不逊，现出他原来的面目。
2.countenance, and with tears in her eyes, she got a pair of scissors, and began mercilessly cutting off the LONG. locks of her hair.
她两眼含着泪水，带着出神的表情拿起了一把剪刀，无动于衷地开始剪掉她那长长的发辫。
3.You never could suppose from her countenance what pangs of humiliation she might be enduring inwardly.
她心里的委屈，在脸上是一点儿也看不出来的。
4.Door-god Jiang has his hands behind his back, a bulging belly and a forbidding countenance as if he might show his bad temper at any time.
只见这个流氓恶棍，双手背在身后，蛮横地腆着肚皮，一副霸悍相，随时随地都可能向人施发狂暴。
5.She had some reason to put the question for shame and pride threw double gloom over his countenance, and kept him immovable.
她是有理由提出这个问题的，因为羞耻和自尊心在他脸上投下了双重的阴影，使他动弹不得。
6.hence with us and heretics the very words ought not to be in common, lest we seem to countenance their error.
故此，我们和异端所使用的文字不应该一致，免得我们像是在支持他们的错误。
7.Their very countenance seems to encourage others to throw obstacles in their paths or to be silent objectors.
他们的表情就像是鼓励别人阻碍他们前进，或是成为静默的对抗者。
8.There was a restless, anxious expression in his countenance I had never remarked there before; and he looked sparer in person.
他脸上有一种不安的、焦虑的表情，这是我以前从来没有看过的；他本人也望着消瘦些。
9.Jesus gave a negative command: "When you fast, do not be like the hypocrites, with a sad countenance" (v. 16).
耶稣提出一个反面命令：「你们禁食的时候，不可像那假冒为善的人，脸上带着愁容」（16节）。
10.As for me Daniel, my cogitations much troubled me, and my countenance changed in me: but I kept the matter in my heart.
至于我但以理，心中甚是惊惶，脸色也改变了，却将那事存记在心。