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词汇 example_english_acute-embarrassment
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acute embarrassment

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meanings of acuteand embarrassment


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acute
adjective
uk /əˈkjuːt/ us /əˈkjuːt/
If a bad situation is acute, it causes severe problems ...
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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 acute embarrassment


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No person of any compassion could feel anything but acuteembarrassment at visiting many of our city-centre prisons.
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This problem has never hit us before, but it is a source of very great discontent and acuteembarrassment to us at this moment.
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I know that it is true that the exchange rate at its current level causes acuteembarrassment and hardship for a number of companies.
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Indeed, to press them would be likely at the present moment to cause them acuteembarrassment and increase the difficulties of the situation.
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Thirdly, some patients experience acuteembarrassment performing toilet procedures in mixed wards.
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Is the reason her acuteembarrassment that the tax burden on the rich has gone down while that on everyone else has gone up?
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Unexpectedly, and to their acuteembarrassment, we have done it.
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It is accepted by everyone that low-flying aircraft are an acuteembarrassment and, in some cases, cause great suffering to people and to livestock.
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What is more, acuteembarrassment can be caused at later stages of the child's development.
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They are used by people here, and this often causes acuteembarrassment to foreign students?
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If people do not take this matter seriously, sooner or later there will be acuteembarrassment.
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If doctors are under an obligation to raise the issue, they will be saved the acuteembarrassment of suggesting a donation of organs on the death of a loved one.
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Technically, the advice may be correct but in practice it results in considerable financial loss as well as acuteembarrassment to the persons concerned.
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