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词汇 disgrace
释义 disgrace
noun[ U ]
uk /dɪsˈɡreɪs/ us /dɪsˈɡreɪs/
B2
embarrassment and the loss of other people's respect, or behaviour that causes this: 耻辱,丢脸;不光彩的行为
in disgraceThey were sent home in disgrace.他们被灰溜溜地送回了家里。
bring disgrace onHe brought disgrace on the whole team by falsifying the results.他篡改比分的行为让全队丢了脸。
 be a disgrace
B2
to be a very bad situation: 非常糟糕,太不像话
Three families living in one room - it's a disgrace!三家人住在一间房里——太糟糕了!
 be a disgrace (to someone/something)
C2
to be so bad or unacceptable that you make people lose respect for the group or activity you are connected to: 是…的耻辱
You're a disgrace (to the family) - what a way to behave!你真(给家人)丢脸——怎么能干出这样的事情!
Fans like these are a disgrace to our country.
What he did was outrageous. He's a disgrace to the medical profession.
She was an absolute disgrace at the party, offending the hosts and attendees with her vile behaviour.
The way veterans are treated by the government is a disgrace.
It's a disgrace that some war widows don't get a decent pension.
I think the way she's been treated is a downright disgrace.
She found the disgrace of losing her job very hard to deal with.
There is no disgrace in admitting that you cannot do something - it's always best to ask for help.
Andrew behaved so badly on the school trip that he was sent home in disgrace.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Humiliating and degrading
abase
abasement
be under a cloudidiom
bring/take someone down a peg (or two)idiom
bruise someone's egoidiom
dishonour
dishonourable
dishonourably
doghouse
exhibition
ignobly
ignominious
ignominiously
ignominy
in the doghouseidiom
shoddily
shoddiness
shoddy
stoop
stoop to something

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Morally wrong and evil
disgrace
verb[ T ]
uk /dɪsˈɡreɪs/ us /dɪsˈɡreɪs/
to make people stop respecting you or your family, team, etc. by doing something very bad: 使丢脸,使蒙羞,使没面子
You have disgraced us all with your behaviour.你的所作所为让我们大家都抬不起头来。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Humiliating and degrading
abase
abasement
be under a cloudidiom
bring/take someone down a peg (or two)idiom
bruise someone's egoidiom
dishonour
dishonourable
dishonourably
doghouse
exhibition
ignobly
ignominious
ignominiously
ignominy
in the doghouseidiom
shoddily
shoddiness
shoddy
stoop
stoop to something

Related word


disgraced

disgrace | American Dictionary


disgrace
noun[ U ]
us/dɪsˈɡreɪs/
embarrassment and the loss of other people’s respect, or behavior that causes this:
He resigned in disgrace.
He’s a disgrace to his family.

disgraceful


adjectiveus/dɪsˈɡreɪs·fəl/
The lies my opponent is telling about me are disgraceful.

Examples of disgrace


disgrace
He felt 'publicly disgraced' [447; 448; 449].
I believe that an industry that acts in this way disgraces itself.
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No decision, hot air; in the end we are disgracing ourselves.
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I accept that both officers have been disgraced and humiliated, and so paid that extra price.
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If a man in such a case were brought up in a police court he would be disgraced almost for ever.
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He also found a so-called rest room that would have disgraced the oldest of our prisons.
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I am not now apportioning the blame, but that the country as a whole was disgraced is beyond question.
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You would have to have canvassing, speeches, meetings, the distribution of pamphlets and leaflets, and placards which would be decorating or disgracing the walls.
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Until very recently the conditions in the domestic departure and arrival area would have disgraced a cattle market.
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In fact, he was disgraced if he did not.
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Take the whole question of the caricatures which disgraced our hoardings.
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You disgraced their memory, you treated our soldiers as though they were criminals.
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Are we disgraced because we have them here?
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They have been sentenced and disgraced and sent for long terms of imprisonment.
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He may be disgraced for life, or a new trial may be ordered in accordances with the rules of procedure.
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Collocations withdisgrace


disgrace

These are words often used in combination with disgrace.

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absolute disgrace
The organisers publicly declared that the state of the monuments was an absolute disgrace.
complete disgrace
Is it not a complete disgrace that this delay has occurred in the way it has?
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national disgrace
But this again is the reaction of an old fogey, for whom an opera like this can only be a nationaldisgrace.
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