| 词汇 | indignity |
| 释义 | indignity noun[ C or U ] uk /ɪnˈdɪɡ.nə.ti/ us /ɪnˈdɪɡ.nə.t̬i/ something that causes a loss of respect for someone or for yourself: 无礼，侮辱;轻蔑;侮辱性言行 They were subjected to various indignities and discomforts, including having to get dressed and undressed in public.他们经历了各种有损尊严和令人尴尬的事，包括不得不当众穿衣和脱衣。 suffer an indignityClint suffered the indignity of being called "Puppy" in front of his girlfriend.克林特当着女友的面被称为“狗仔”，受到了侮辱。 Humiliating and degrading abase abasement be under a cloudidiom bring/take someone down a peg (or two)idiom bruise someone's egoidiom disgraced dishonour dishonourable dishonourably doghouse ignoble ignobly ignominious ignominiously ignominy shoddily shoddiness shoddy stoop stoop to something indignity | American Dictionaryindignity noun[ C/U ] us/ɪnˈdɪɡ·nɪ·t̬i/ loss of respect, or something that causes this: [ C ]She describes the indignities that victims suffer after a crime. Examples of indignityindignity And, after all, it is a piece about indignity beyond words. It was only then that the plight of these people affected by violent wars and forced into a life of indignity came into full view. The 'can do' culture cannot lecture other forms of society about inefficiencies whilst it has such indignity at home. Even if the crown lawyers decided against a trial, they could visit all manner of indignities upon their victim. He vows that only a "sweeping and consummate vengeance for the indignity alone should satisfy him" (49). A hospital career offered another alternative but one fraught with professional frustrations and indignities. Clearly then, all classes saw catheterization as the least-favoured option, but patients also were unhappy about the indignity associated with the use of incontinence pads. Invasive and futile treatment with multiple injections, tubes, catheters can add further indignity in the dying phase, when the elderly may only want to pass away peacefully. Kamalakanta's irony, despite its sense of indignity ineradicably mixed with the historical present, had not lost its touch entirely with laughter in the ordinary sense. May we all reclaim ourselves as elegantly from the indignities of age and accident. Indignity, an acute concern to family and friends, may be quite invisible to the sufferer. These problems do not arise when moral responsibility for harm to others is coupled with epistemic responsibility for responding to indignities that should fall short of harm. It would have been callous and indifferent to not have inquired about the patient's level of comfort, given the case description of the patient's "unbearable" pain and indignities. Whether by euthanasia or natural means, death which ended long-term suffering was legitimated, by all who spoke of it, as a ' merciful release ' - an end to pain and indignity. Here we find the needs and resources test, the means test, all the indignities which will have to be suffered by part of our population. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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