put a human face on something (also give something a human face) to make an important event or principle understandable to ordinary people by directing their attention to the way it affects a particular person 〔通过特定的个人〕形象生动地表现某事 Anne Frank was the girl whose diary put a human face on the Holocaust. 安妮·弗兰克就是那位在日记中通过个人经历来描写大屠杀的女孩。
put a human face on something• What he fails to do is to put a human face on these processes.
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