"Out of countenance" nghĩa là gì?

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"Out of countenance" có từ countenance là sắc mặt -> cụm từ này nghĩa là khó chịu, xấu hổ.

Ví dụ
Is so appropriate (hợp lý) to its surroundings that it seems to have grown out of them by some process of nature, and it is equally appropriate to its purpose. It explains itself at once as a gentleman’s summer home, but with a simplicity (giản dị) which does not put the humblest (khiêm tốn) village neighbor out of countenance.

There it is, right there in the middle of the nicest man in film's otherwise kind and straightforward (trung thực, thẳng thắn) face, and it puts Meg Ryan badly out of countenance.

In truth, Grandma was out of countenance in the face of sloppy decorating, and some family members greeted the season of midnight embellishing (làm đẹp) with a slightly heavy heart.

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