While it was once a shameful admission to have a convict ancestor, today it is more likely to be seen as a badge of honour.
以往，要承认自家先人犯过罪纵然是一件丑事，但在今天则有可能被视为一种褒奖。
Executives and hedge fund managers began bragging about compensation packages that would have been considered shameful a few decades before.
高管人员和对冲基金经理们开始大谈薪酬补贴，几十年前，这种行为被认为是无耻的。
Almost alone of the academic disciplines, mathematics is one where expressions of ignorance are more of a boast than a shameful admission (imagine admitting at a dinner party that you can't read).
在众多学科中，惟有数学是当一个人表达其无知时，他不是表达其羞耻之心而是在表达其得意之情(请设想在晚宴上承认你没有阅读能力)。
It is not dirty or evil or shameful. A large number of women will have miscarriages in their lifetime.
这是一个女人人生经历的重要组成部分，这不是什么肮脏、邪恶或可耻的事情。
"It is very shameful, but probably I will pay the bribe," Mohammed Naim, a young English teacher, said as he stood in front of the Secondary Courthouse in Kabul.
“这非常可耻，但很可能我将支付这笔钱”，年轻的英语教师莫哈默德·纳埃姆在喀布尔的二级法院门前这样说道。
There's something surreal about seeing an old friend when we know it's for the last time, a shameful gap between the reality right before our eyes and the kinds of facts our minds can absorb. ...
当知道这是最后一次见到一位老朋友的时候，我们一定会有某些超出现实的感觉……我们眼前的现实与我们头脑能够理解的真相之间，出现了一条可耻的鸿沟……
For some British and most Poles, the whole episode stank of a shameful cover-up.
对于一些英国和大多数波兰人，整个事件都散发着一种可耻的阴谋的味道。
This seems a less shameful state of ignorance than never having known it at all.
与从来不知道相比，这种无知状态似乎不那么可耻。
Death has become a taboo subject, a shameful secret we ignore, hoping with futile foolishness that it won't come close to us.
死亡已经成为一个禁忌的话题。它仿佛成为了一个可耻的秘密，我们对之视而不见，还自欺欺人的希望它永远不会来临。
Chavel was filled with a huge and shameful joy.
查维尔心中充满了巨大而又令他感到羞耻的快乐。
Ricardo Alarcón, head of Cuba’s parliament, called the trial a “stupid and shameful farce” because of limits on the evidence presented to the jury.
古巴议长Ricardo Alarcón认为，这次审判是“一场愚蠢并且可耻的闹剧”，因为根本没有足够的证据递交陪审团。
But as the nation's "freeter" (freelance part-time worker) population continues to swell (nearly 4.5 million as of 2009), young men like Miyano are no longer a shunned and shameful minority.
但是这个国家“自由职业者”(自由职业者兼职人员)的人口不断膨胀(截至2009年近450万)，像宫野这样的年轻男子不再是让人避之唯恐不及和引以为可耻的少数族。
He spat out a word that sounded like "shame," but more shameful.
他蹦出一个听起来像“耻辱，”的字儿，可是更为恶毒。
Some were appalled by a spectacle which they considered a "shameful" sign of disrespect to the patriarch who had governed Egypt for 30 years.
一些人对这一幕情境惊骇不已，他们认为这是对一位曾治理埃及达30年之久的族长“可耻的”不敬表现。
But it was all in vain, and I had a feeling of the most dreadful, shameful failure.
但这都是徒劳无益的，我有种极度可怕、极度可耻的失败的感觉。
My siblings and I were instilled with the notion that there was something problematic, even shameful, about having a rich father.
我的兄弟姐妹和我自己被灌输了有一名富爸爸一定是有什么地方出错甚至丢人的观念。
America has a shameful history of using prisoners for medical experiments.
美国有一段利用囚犯做医学实验的不光彩历史。
In ONE of the more shameful episodes of its past, Canada imposed a hefty head tax on all Chinese immigrants in 1885, then banned their entry altogether from 1923 to 1947.
1885年，加拿大开始向所有华人移民征收沉重的人头税，后来又在1923年至1947年间完全禁止华人移民入境，这是该国历史上发生的较不体面的事件之一。
Needing to retake classes because you learn at a different pace is not shameful, just a fact.
由于你用一种不同的步伐来学习而不得不重修课程并不是丢人的事情，而是事实。
For a long time I felt very shameful of it, but I've come to realize it's nothing to be ashamed of.
很长一段时间，我觉得那是非常丢脸的，但我已经认识到这没什么可羞耻的。
People thought that Darwin was saying they were descended from monkeys. What a shameful idea!
人们认为达尔文在说人是猴子的后代，这种观点简直有失体面！
“It would be a very shameful page in China's history” if the law is passed, he says.
他说，如果该法获得通过，“这将是中国历史上非常耻辱的一页”。
He goes through the painful process of de-idealizing his parents, discovering that his father could be arrogant and cruel and that even his protector, Dumbledore, had a shameful past.
他经历了把父母从理想化拉回现实的痛苦过程，发现他的爸爸也可能傲慢并且残忍，而一直保护他的邓布利多也拥有不堪提及的过往。
Whereas, as in other cultures, calling on the name of a god or a goddess wouldn't be considered shameful language at all.
然而在其他文化中，叫上帝的名字，或叫女神的名字，根本不算可耻的语言。
I have a dream that one day I won't hold my breath every time I tell a person that I suffer from bipolar disorder, that I won't feel shameful in confessing my mental illness.
我有一个梦想，有一天，当告诉别人我得了躁郁症的时候，我不再低声细气。当我坦白地说出自己患有心理疾病时，我不再感到羞愧。
The ChildLine service has given a voice to these hidden children, many of whom feel they have a shameful secret to hide.
儿童热线服务小组鼓励那些潜在的受害儿童说出问题，因为许多受害儿童觉得这是一个耻辱的秘密，不想被人知道。
The ChildLine service has given a voice to these hidden children, many of whom feel they have a shameful secret to hide.
儿童热线服务小组鼓励那些潜在的受害儿童说出问题，因为许多受害儿童觉得这是一个耻辱的秘密，不想被人知道。
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