Embarrassment
英音[ ɪmˈbærəsmənt ] 美音[ ɪmˈbærəsmənt ]

难堪

常用释义

词性释义

n.

尴尬,难堪;使人难堪的人(或事);拮据,经济困难;(可供挑选的)众多事物
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An old man who sold tobacco, seeing that I was taking a picture of him, got fidgeted and hurriedly adjusted his clothes in embarrassment.
那位卖烟草的大爷,发现我在拍他,立刻露出笑容,不好意思地整理了一下衣服;
Maybe the tide is beginning to turn, ever so slowly, against infibulation, and at least we're seeing some embarrassment about the practice.
也许风向正在发生改变,尽管十分缓慢,但至少我们看到了阴部扣锁这种习俗遭到了一些难堪。
向非核心业务扩张,是造成该公司公开出丑的根本原因之一。
He wanted to tell John how surprised he was at his knowledge but embarrassment made him hold his peace.
他想告诉约翰,他没有料到他的知识有这么渊博,但是觉得有些不好意思,没有说出口。
It is all above board, you can do it in office hours and with none of the embarrassment of being on Match. com.
整个过程光明正大,可以在上班时间完成,完全不会有被同事抓到你在看正宗交友网站Match.com的那种尴尬。
He looked away quickly, more quickly than I could, though in a flush of embarrassment I dropped my eyes at once.
他很快收回了目光,比我还快,尽管我立刻就红着脸尴尬得垂下了眼。
And then the embarrassment is going to be crippling, to me, to the luckless company and to the Financial Times.
而后,这种困窘必然给我本人、那家不幸的公司、以及英国《金融时报》造成极大的伤害。
This is often accompanied by feelings of embarrassment and shame, but occasionally with the feeling of pride or freedom.
这种梦境情节中经常表现自己感到困窘或害羞,但有时也有一种获得自由的自豪感。
But he might be taken aback by the popular sympathy for his plight. So might the authorities: the case has become an embarrassment.
但社会公众对其处境的同情让当局很是尴尬,案件的判定可能会受到影响。
有一位朋友给我们带来了一公斤牛肉,是她母亲为我们从工厂食堂里偷来的,这时我的尴尬简直变成羞愧了。
but , continued monsieur duval with embarrassment , the least i can do is to give you what you paid for it . please take it as a gift.
“但是,”迪瓦尔先生不好意思地说,“那么至少我也得把您付掉的书款还给您。”
在这个短暂的插曲中间,纽兰·阿切尔陷入一种奇怪的尴尬境地。
Yes, the bargain itself, from a liberal perspective, would have been a pretty bad deal, but it would have avoided this embarrassment.
是的,从自由的角度看,协议自身肯定是不完美的,但它至少会解决问题。
But they should not be treated as if they experience such essentially human emotions as embarrassment and a desire for self-expression.
但是,不能认为他们具备人的基本感受,以及具有自我表达的愿望。
对他的尴尬,然后他不得不打电话给他的妻子,让她把他一些钱。
在我现在看来,他那时似乎在叹气,而我吃吃地笑是在隐藏我的尴尬。
How much embarrassment will you accept to take a stand for Jesus?
你愿意为了维护耶稣而面对多少尴尬的处境?
This was a topic from which he always sheered away, as though unwilling to face the embarrassment it caused.
他们总是避开这个话题,仿佛不愿面对由此带来的尴尬局面。
He came to see me and in generous and emotional fashion offered to resign his commission so as to relieve me of any embarrassment.
他前来见我,神情激动,却不失大度地请求解除其职务,以免使我为难。
The word " cringe" is often used to describe the feeling of intense embarrassment in witnessing a certain kind of British comedy.
“局促不安”一词经常用来形容人们在观看某种英国喜剧时那种强烈的尴尬感。
当作一个公开的运动去对英国主人说明,以维持他们的面子,并避免窘迫。
很多笑声,有点难为情。
However, if it is unable to avoid consciously the embarrassment of annoying complaints, the original intention to the program is lost.
但如果不能自觉地避免祥林嫂式的尴尬情境,就违背了栏目的初衷。
To his terrible embarrassment, he found that he had no enough money with him after dinner.
令他极为尴尬的是,饭后他发现没带足够的确钱。
In certain, rare circumstances voters do not tell pollsters the truth, more out of embarrassment than mendacity.
可以肯定的是,选民们不对民意调查专家说真话的情况很少,如果不是尴尬则不会撒谎。
Simply ask her to guide you in with her hand. That way you'll save a lot of embarrassment, not to mention time.
只需请她用手来引路就行了,既避免尴尬,又节约时间。
In social situations, there is an uneasiness, clumsiness, or perhaps some sort of minor embarrassment or faux pas on your part.
在社交场合,你显得有点不自然,有点笨拙,甚至可能会造成一些小尴尬和失态。
But I was tortured for the rest of the day by that simple error, blushing anew and groaning with embarrassment every time I thought of it.
但是这一天剩余的时间我都被这个小小的错误所折磨,每当想起它就会脸红、难为情地哀叹。
To be sure, had we left without progress, it would have been a major embarrassment to Nixon.
当然,我们此行若毫无进展,对尼克松总统来说无疑是个极大的尴尬。
我的第一印象是,这对于任何一个超过30岁的人来说是非常尴尬的。
1·I nearly died of embarrassment when he said that.
他说那话差点儿把我给难堪死了。
—— 《牛津词典》
2·She couldn't disguise her glee at their embarrassment.
看到他们难堪的样子她不禁喜形于色。
—— 《牛津词典》
3·The poverty figures were undoubtedly an embarrassment to the president.
这些贫困数字无疑是令总统难堪的一件事。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
4·And I want to get at that question of embarrassment, because it comes up very explicitly on page 36.
我还想讲一下刚才那个关于难堪的问题,因为在第36页明确提出了这个问题。
5·The era of his astonishing creativity ended 20 years ago; most of what has happened since has been embarrassment.
他那充满惊人的创造力的时代早在20年前就已结束,接下来发生的多是难堪之事。
同义词
n.
窘迫,难堪;使人为难的人或事物;拮据
同根词 (词根embarrass)
embarrassed adj 尴尬的;窘迫的
embarrassing adj 使人尴尬的;令人为难的
embarrassingly adv 使人尴尬地;令人难堪地
embarrassed v 使...困窘;使...局促不安(embarrass的过去分词形式)
embarrass vt 使局促不安;使困窘;阻碍