embarrassment
n. 尷尬; 難堪(的事); 使人為難(或難堪)的人
Embarrassment is the feeling you have when you are embarrassed.
It is a source of embarrassment to Londoners that the standard of pubs is so low...
酒館水準之低讓倫敦人覺得顏面盡失。
I think I would have died of embarrassment...
我覺得自己難堪得要死。
An embarrassment is an action, event, or situation which causes problems for a politician, political party, government, or other public group.
The poverty figures were undoubtedly an embarrassment to the president.
貧困數字毫無疑問讓總統非常難堪。
If you refer to a person as an embarrassment, you mean that you disapprove of them but cannot avoid your connection with them.
You have been an embarrassment to us from the day Douglas married you.
從道格拉斯娶你那天起,你就讓我們非常難堪。
If you say that someone has an embarrassment of riches, you mean that they have so many good things that these things are a problem.
The art gallery's problem is an embarrassment of riches, with nowhere to put most of them.
那家美術館的問題是好作品太多,大多數作品無處陳放。
1. the shame you feel when your inadequacy or guilt is made public
2. the state of being embarrassed (usually by some financial inadequacy);
3. some event that causes someone to be embarrassed;
4. extreme excess;
shame, disgrace, embarrassment, dishonour
這些名詞均含"丟臉,羞愧"之意。
He smiled away her embarrassment.
他以微笑解除了她的窘態.
Their embarrassment convicted them.
他們的窘迫說明了他們有錯誤.
Stratford has an embarrassment of riches, what with three theatres and lovely countryside too.
斯特拉福特值得遊覽的地方太多了, 有三家劇院,還有可愛的鄉村.
Her blush told of her embarrassment.
她臉紅顯露出她的困窘.
The girl's face was aflame with embarrassment.
那姑娘窘得漲紅了臉.
n. 困境,為難
plightdifficultydilemmapredicamentquandarybindrub
n. 妨礙
hindranceobstaclerubimpedimentencumbrancesnag
n. 窘迫
uneasinessfacechagrinonmortificationeggabashmentone'sdiscomfortuncomfortablenesshumiliationself-consciousnessshamediscomposure
n. 缺點,瑕疵
n. 過多,多餘物
overabundancesuperabundanceexcessrepletionsurplusagesuperfluityglut
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