人對人：站到你面前
這一族就是核心畫面的原型：對面站的是一個活人，兩張臉之間有一段緊繃的距離。
face threateningly · verb · C2
To stand in front of someone in a threatening way, as if you might try to stop them or start a fight.
對峙
核心畫面
Two faces brought right up against each other, forehead to forehead, with no way to look aside. Confront is that moment of standing face-to-face — whether the other side is a person blocking your path or a problem that has planted itself in front of you. What matters is the direction: you are looking straight at it.
兩張臉正對正、額頭對額頭地站著，誰也別想把頭撇開。confront 就是「面對面」的那一刻——對面站的可能是一個擋住…更多收起
兩張臉正對正、額頭對額頭地站著，誰也別想把頭撇開。confront 就是「面對面」的那一刻——對面站的可能是一個擋住你去路的人，也可能是一個橫在你眼前的麻煩。重點在方向：不是繞過去、不是低頭走開，而是眼睛直直看著它。這個字的所有用法，差別只在對面是誰、以及誰先站定不動。From the word’s history
confront comes through French confronter from Medieval Latin cōnfrontāre: con- 'together' + frons/frontem 'forehead, front'. It literally means to put foreheads together — so 'face-to-face' is not a metaphor added later, it is the word's original build.
confront 經法文 confronter 來自中世紀拉丁文 cōnfrontāre，拆開是 con-（一起）+ frons / frontem（額頭、正面）。字面意思就是「把額頭湊在一起」。所以「面對面」不是後來加上去的比喻，而是這個字原本的組裝方式；front（正面）就是它的親戚。記住額頭那個畫面，四個意思就都站得住了。
Wiktionary (confront ← Middle French confronter ← Medieval Latin cōnfrontāre, from con- + frontem 'forehead, front'), corroborated by Online Etymology Dictionary
Two branches
事對人：問題站到你面前
同樣是正面相對，只是站在對面的從人變成事；而「先站定的是誰」決定了要用哪一個意思。
face (a problem) · verb · C2
If a problem, difficulty, or situation confronts you, it appears in front of you and you need to deal with it.
面臨
原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
confrontverb/kənˈfɹʌnt/
- 1
To stand or meet facing, especially in competition, hostility or defiance; to come face to face with.
- It is important that police officers learn to deescalate situations in which someone confronts them aggressively.
- 2
To deal with.
- confront a problem
- 3
To bring someone face to face with something.
- We should confront him about the missing money.
- 4
To come up against; to encounter.
- Inter Milan are to confront Juventus in the final.
- 5
To engage in confrontation.
- 6
To set a thing side by side with; to compare.
- 7
To put a thing facing to; to set in contrast to.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。