countenance

• n. 顔、表情; 支持
• vt.サポート、支持

containから、封じ込める、コントロールする、内面の感情をコントロールする、表現する。後者の単語はさらに肯定的な意味合いを持ち、評価される、支持される。

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.

米国は制裁回避に賛成しない。

2.Jake would not countenance Janis 's marrying while still a student.

ジャックはジャニスが学校に通っているのに結婚することに同意しない。

3.He met each inquiry with an impassive countenance .

彼は無表情で質問を受けた。

4.The committee refused to countenance his proposals.

委員会は彼の案に同意しないことを拒否した。

5.At the sight of this photograph he changed his countenance .

彼はこの写真を見ると顔色が変わった。