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词汇 example_english_source-of-embarrassment
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source of embarrassment

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meanings of sourceand embarrassment


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source
noun[C]
uk /sɔːs/ us /sɔːrs/
the place something comes from or starts at, or the cause ...
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embarrassment
noun[C or U]
uk /ɪmˈbær.əs.mənt/ us /ɪmˈber.əs.mənt/
the feeling of being embarrassed, or something that makes you ...
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Examples of source of embarrassment


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As the war progressed into its final phase, party membership became less a source of authority or prestige within the community and more and more a sourceofembarrassment.
A constant sourceofembarrassment to local authorities has been the rating system.
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Clearly, the common agricultural policy has been a grave sourceofembarrassment to successive governments.
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They have gone further than that; they have been a constant sourceofembarrassment.
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It is a sourceofembarrassment to me politically that we think alike on so many occasions.
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They contain eight figures and are, therefore, a sourceofembarrassment to aged people.
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I am not offering the advice to-day as a sourceofembarrassment.
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The floating debt is certainly very cheap, but it is a potential sourceofembarrassment.
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If for some reason the wife obtains relief from tax, these sums are repayable to the husband—a considerable sourceofembarrassment at the least.
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This will be seen as double standards, and that is a sourceofembarrassment.
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It is a real sourceofembarrassment to their families.
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It was also potentially a major sourceofembarrassment to us in our relations with those allies who were consulted about the timetable.
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I do not believe that such caution is a matter of shame, nor should it be a sourceofembarrassment.
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This reduction, however, seems to increase the risk that private photographs, particularly of public people, will be published in ways that will be a sourceofembarrassment to the subjects.
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There has been some concern over the length of time records may be kept, and the possibility of their becoming a sourceofembarrassment in later years.
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It is a sourceofembarrassment that we have failed to ratify so many of these treaties which have been in existence for so many years.
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That is a sourceofembarrassment.
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I find this name extremely difficult and it is even a sourceofembarrassment for me.
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But there was one sourceofembarrassment greater than all the rest.
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