| 词汇 | embarrassment |
| 释义 | embarrassment noun[ C or U ] uk /ɪmˈbær.əs.mənt/ us /ɪmˈber.əs.mənt/ B2 the feeling of being embarrassed, or something that makes you feel embarrassed: 尴尬，窘迫;局促不安;令人尴尬的事 She blushed with embarrassment.她窘得脸都红了。 an embarrassment toMy parents are an embarrassment to me!我父母让我觉得很丢脸！ I could have died of embarrassment. He rustled his papers to hide his embarrassment. Luckily, I was spared the embarrassment of having to sing in front of everyone.幸运的是，我躲过了在大家面前唱歌的尴尬。 Nobody spoke for at least five minutes and Rachel squirmed in her chair with embarrassment.至少有5分钟谁也没说话，雷切尔尴尬地在椅子上扭来扭去。 She felt acute embarrassment at his behaviour. Ashamed and embarrassed abash abashed ashamed awkward awkwardly guiltiness hangdog have egg on your faceidiom humbling humblingly mortify mortifying not know where to put yourselfidiom pride self-mortification sheepishness silly smallness squirm swallow your prideidiom Idioman embarrassment of riches Examples of embarrassmentembarrassment I know the dangers, the risks and the embarrassments. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I cannot see why this country has subjected itself to all these embarrassments. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There have been enough difficulties between employers and employed in the past without creating fresh embarrassments. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The embarrassments of business, therefore, are still very great. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Do they wish to avoid these embarrassments so that food taxes may be imposed with the minimum amount of political inconvenience? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 You may only be pushing gold up still further in terms of commodities and, without relieving yourself, adding to the embarrassments of the world. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They have many problems, and in certain areas of government embarrassments have arisen as a result of that system. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We must make up our minds to abjure that principle whatever consequent difficulties or embarrassments arise. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The assumption is that our rôle is that of a lender or provider, which is always a comfortable one, free of any embarrassments. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are not talking about political embarrassments; we are talking about people's skins. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The embarrassments of the developing countries are the fruit of what has been done by the international organisations. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am not saying that there have been major embarrassments, but the licensing system was not logical, nor was it consistently applied. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There are other minor embarrassments, chiefly of a machinery nature, which one cannot foresee. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 His embarrassments would, therefore, be reduced if we nationalised more industries, because we should then know exactly how to adjust the priorities. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There are no embarrassments and no difficulties at all. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of embarrassment 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. Collocations withembarrassmentembarrassmentThese are words often used in combination with embarrassment. Click on a collocation to see more examples of it. acute embarrassment No person of any compassion could feel anything but acuteembarrassment at visiting many of our city-centre prisons. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 embarrassment of riches Even so, there remains an embarrassmentofriches when it comes to terminology. feeling of embarrassment I think that this feelingofembarrassment is exaggerated. 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. See all collocations with embarrassment |
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