| 词汇 | losing face |
| 词源 | losing face. The Chinese have a phrase for losing one’s dignity before others, and tiu lien was simply translated into to lose face by English traders there in the late 19th century. These same En- glish, however, invented the phrase to save face, “to maintain one’s dignity,” using the Chinese model. |
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