







to keep a straight face
to look stern
For more of a pout, imagine your boyfriend has been away for a month. Now he comes back and wants to watch football.
Behind those pouting poses, cheeky grins, and GIRL Power salutes, there was a programme of cynical media manipulation and calculating exploitation.

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Open the tool →绷脸 (bēng liǎn) means “to keep a straight face, to look stern”.
绷脸 is pronounced bēng liǎn in Mandarin Chinese.
“to keep a straight face” is 绷脸 (bēng liǎn) in Chinese.
This page has 2 example sentences using 绷脸, each with pinyin and an English translation.