embarrassment
英式音标：embarrassment怎么读
美式音标：embarrassment怎么读
词汇归类： TEM4,中低频词,畅通词汇
近义词： plight,difficulty,dilemma,predicament,quandary,bind,rub
embarrassment词义
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n. 窘迫，难堪；使人为难的人或事物；拮据
词态变化
复数: embarrassments;
embarrassment双语例句
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- 1. She turned scarlet from embarrassment, once she realized what she had done.
- 她意识到自己做了什么后羞红了脸。
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- 2. The facts could cause embarrassment if they ever became public.
- 一旦披露出去，真相会让人非常尴尬。
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- 3. The report has caused acute embarrassment to the government.
- 报告将政府置于窘境。
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- 4. I wanted to spare Frances the embarrassment of discussing this subject.
- 讨论这个话题太尴尬，我不想让弗朗西斯难堪。
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- 5. Embarrassment has kept me from doing all sorts of things.
- 我总是害怕受窘，什么事都不敢去做。
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embarrassment英文词源
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- embarrassment (n.)
- 1670s, "state of being impeded, obstructed, or entangled" (of affairs, etc.), from embarrass + -ment, or from French embarrassement, from embarrasser.
As "a mental state of unease," from 1774. Meaning "thing which embarrasses" is from 1729. Earlier words expressing much the same idea include baishment "embarrassment, confusion" (late 14c.); baishednesse (mid-15c.).
embarrassment实用场景例句
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- Much to her embarrassment she realized that everybody had been listening to her singing.
- 她意识到大家一直在听她唱歌，感到很不好意思。
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- Her resignation will be a severe embarrassment to the party.
- 她的辞职将使党处于极度的困境。
牛津词典
- I'm glad you offered─it saved me the embarrassment of having to ask.
- 你提出帮忙我很高兴，省得我厚着脸皮来问你。
牛津词典
- 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
- It is a source of embarrassment to Londoners that the standard of pubs is so low...
- 酒馆水准之低让伦敦人觉得颜面尽失。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- I think I would have died of embarrassment...
- 我觉得自己难堪得要死。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- The poverty figures were undoubtedly an embarrassment to the president.
- 贫困数字毫无疑问让总统非常难堪。
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- You have been an embarrassment to us from the day Douglas married you.
- 从道格拉斯娶你那天起，你就让我们非常难堪。
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- The art gallery's problem is an embarrassment of riches, with nowhere to put most of them.
- 那家美术馆的问题是好作品太多，大多数作品无处陈放。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- He smiled away her embarrassment.
- 他以微笑解除了她的窘态.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
- Their embarrassment convicted them.
- 他们的窘迫说明了他们有错误.
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- Stratford has an embarrassment of riches, what with three theatres and lovely countryside too.
- 斯特拉福特值得游览的地方太多了, 有三家剧院,还有可爱的乡村.
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- Her blush told of her embarrassment.
- 她脸红显露出她的困窘.
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- The girl's face was aflame with embarrassment.
- 那姑娘窘得涨红了脸.
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- Embarrassment caused me to hesitate.
- 窘迫使得我(讲话)吞吞吐吐.
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- She could have died away with embarrassment.
- 她窘迫得要死.
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- His face flushed with embarrassment.
- 他尴尬得满脸通红.
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- His face reddened with embarrassment.
- 他窘得脸都红了.
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- She went crimson with embarrassment.
- 她羞得满脸通红.
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- Blushes showed her embarrassment.
- 她双颊发红,一副窘态.
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- Her face was flushed with embarrassment.
- 她尴尬得满脸通红.
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- The episode was a huge embarrassment for all concerned.
- 这段小插曲令所有有关人员都感到非常尴尬.
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- He could not hide his embarrassment.
- 他无法掩盖自己的窘态.
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- I nearly died of embarrassment when he said that.
- 他说那话差点儿把我给难堪死了。
《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》
- She went bright pink with embarrassment.
- 她尴尬得满脸绯红。
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- She went scarlet with embarrassment.
- 她窘得满脸通红。
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- The administration is just stonewalling in an attempt to hide their political embarrassment.
- 政府只是在模棱两可地拖延时间，企图掩盖自己的政治窘态。
柯林斯例句
- The art gallery's problem is an embarrassment of riches, with nowhere to put most of them.
- 那家美术馆的问题是好作品太多，大多数作品无处陈放。
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- The facts could cause embarrassment if they ever became public.
- 一旦披露出去，真相会让人非常尴尬。
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- It is a source of embarrassment to Londoners that the standard of pubs is so low.
- 酒馆水准之低让伦敦人觉得颜面尽失。
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