| 词汇 | embarrass |
| 释义 | embarrass verb[ T ] uk /ɪmˈbær.əs/ us /ɪmˈber.əs/ C2 to cause someone to feel nervous, worried, or uncomfortable: 使尴尬，使窘迫;使为难 You're embarrassing him with your compliments!你的赞美之词使他很不好意思。 I didn't want to embarrass her in front of her friends.我并不想在她朋友面前让她感到难堪。 Look, you've embarrassed him - he's gone bright red!瞧，你让他很尴尬——他的脸都红了！ To be honest, it embarrassed me to receive such an effusive welcome. My mum always embarrasses me by arriving in some ridiculous outfit. Why did you make an announcement in front of everyone? Did you have to embarrass us like that? Stop talking about his little problem - can't you see you're embarrassing him? Embarrassing awkward blushingly cringe cringe at something cringe comedy cringeworthy cringey curl curl up and dieidiom embarrassing embarrassingly painful put someone on the spotidiom show show up spare spare someone's blushesidiom spot TMI toe-curling embarrass | American Dictionaryembarrass verb[ T ] us/ɪmˈbær·əs/ to cause someone to feel anxious, ashamed, or uncomfortable: He knew that letter would embarrass him and later he tried to get rid of it. embarrassedadjectiveus/ɪmˈbær·əst/ They sat in embarrassed silence. embarrassingadjectiveus/ɪmˈbær·ə·sɪŋ/ [ + to infinitive ]It’s embarrassing to be caught telling a lie. embarrassinglyadverbus/ɪmˈbær·ə·siŋ·li/ an embarrassingly poor performance embarrassmentnoun[ C/U ]us/ɪmˈbær·əs·mənt/ [ U ]She forgot her lines and blushed with embarrassment. Examples of embarrassembarrass This did, however, bias the participants in an unprecedented, at times embarrassing, way. This was a desperate attempt by whig leaders to embarrass a succeeding tory government and carry themselves back into office. For example, a funny or embarrassing incident, a frightening story, accident or danger, or a time you got into trouble with your parents. Sometimes the fog briefly lifts, and the spectacle becomes faintly embarrassing. Such cavalier treatment of the data is an embarrassment to the field and should be embarrassing to the authors. This was because of the dependent's behaviour, which, particularly when eating, had become embarrassing to their carer. The author is no less embarrassing about the language of wine-tasting, about which he has an undue amount to say. Unfortunately, the conditions in which we live actively embarrass efforts to provide such theory. The phrase looks nice on the page but, coming on the heels of that shibboleth second foot, proves delicately embarrassing to say aloud. When you get older it is embarrassing because people are staring at you. What is it about our embarrassing friend that makes him so hard to spell? A somewhat clinical, earnest, tight-lipped, almost embarrassed, tone often characterizes their discourse on this topic. Selective sympathectomy: 71% of patients, moderate 50%, embarrassing 21%. Truncal sympathectomy: 72% of patients, moderate 22%, embarrassing 46%, and disabling 4%. But this is not that embarrassing for my view as long as these reasons have weight in other contexts. 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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