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embarrassment
[ɪmˈbærəsmənt] [ɪmˈbærəsmənt]

  • n. 尴尬,难堪;使人难堪的人(或事);拮据,经济困难;(可供挑选的)众多事物

[ 复数 embarrassments ]

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  为难

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  尴尬

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  难堪

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短语

role embarrassment 角色尴尬

living embarrassment 生存尴尬

life embarrassment 人生困境

learning embarrassment 学习问题

moral embarrassment 道义困境

social embarrassment 社交尴尬

financial embarrassment [会计] 财务拮据

ability embarrassment 能力困境

prisoner embarrassment 囚徒困境

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  • 尴尬 - 引用次数:56

    Their special social identity, immigrants, as well as the fact that they are foreign citizens of Chinese origin make them wonder around the edges of politics, economy and culture. They live in an embarrassment situation and in pain.

    移民特殊的社会身份以及华裔种族属性,使他们处在经济、政治、文化的边缘,处境尴尬而痛苦。

    参考来源 - 论严歌苓小说对迁移生活的书写
  • 困境 - 引用次数:25

    Simultaneously, Contractors neither made risk analysis nor chose project pertaining to them. ALL have begotten embarrassment in the performance.

    比如项目业主没有分析可能遇到的风险,也没有选择合适的项目管理模式;而承包商没有对工程项目进行风险研究,就去承包不适合自己的工程项目;这些都会使自己陷入困境

    参考来源 - 水电工程项目管理模式与风险分析
  • 窘迫,障碍,扰乱

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embarrassment [ im'bærəsmənt ]

  • n.
    • the shame you feel when your inadequacy or guilt is made public
    • the state of being embarrassed (usually by some financial inadequacy)

      "he is currently suffering financial embarrassments"

    • some event that causes someone to be embarrassed

      "the outcome of the vote was an embarrassment for the liberals"

    • extreme excess

      "an embarrassment of riches"

      同义词: overplus plethora superfluity

以上来源于: WordNet

 柯林斯英汉双解大词典 

embarrassment /ɪmˈbærəsmənt/ TEM4

  • 1. 

    N-VAR Embarrassment is the feeling you have when you are embarrassed. 尴尬; 难堪

    例:

    I think I would have died of embarrassment.

    我觉得我一定会尴尬得要死。

    例:

    We apologize for any embarrassment this may have caused.

    我们为可能会带来的任何尴尬而道歉。

  • 2. 

    N-COUNT An embarrassment is an action, event, or situation that causes problems for a politician, political party, government, or other public group. 难堪的事

    例:

    The poverty figures were undoubtedly an embarrassment to the president.

    这些贫困数字无疑是令总统难堪的一件事。

  • 3. 

    N-SING If you refer to a person as an embarrassment, you mean that you disapprove of them but cannot avoid your connection with them. 丢脸的人 [表不满]

    例:

    You have been an embarrassment to us from the day Doug married you.

    自从你和道格结婚的那天起你对我们来讲一直是个丢脸的人。

同近义词同根词词语辨析

  • n. 窘迫,难堪;使人为难的人或事物;拮据
  • aporia

词根: embarrass

adj.

embarrassed 尴尬的;窘迫的

embarrassing 使人尴尬的;令人为难的

adv.

embarrassingly 使人尴尬地;令人难堪地

v.

embarrassed 使...困窘;使...局促不安(embarrass的过去分词形式)

vt.

embarrass 使局促不安;使困窘;阻碍

  shame, embarrassment, disgrace, dishonour

这组词都有“丢脸,羞愧”的意思,其区别是:

shame 多指因非法婚烟、私生、卖国或犯法等而丢失脸面或败坏名声,使他人认为“丢脸”、“可耻”。

embarrassment 多指在社交活动中所遇到的尴尬事。

disgrace 常指失去他人的尊敬和称赞而使自己感受到的丢脸、耻辱。

dishonour 指失去原来享有的光荣或自尊和自重。

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双语例句原声例句权威例句

  • Embarrassment rooted her to the spot.

    尴尬得呆住

    《牛津词典》

  • She couldn't disguise her glee at their embarrassment.

    看到他们难堪的样子不禁喜形于色

    《牛津词典》

  • She blushed with embarrassment.

    难为情得脸红了。

    《牛津词典》

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  • But Professor Rottenberg says those who felt shame or embarrassment while crying were less likely to report that crying had been helpful.

    VOA: special.2009.01.28

  • And I want to get at that question of embarrassment, because it comes up very explicitly on page 36.

    我还想讲一下刚才那个关于难堪的问题,因为在第36页明确提出了这个问题。

    耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

  • Embarrassment tells us we're in the presence of the excess, and that's why Beat writers court it.

    难堪告诉我们自己是处在过度的状态,所以垮掉一代的作者追求难堪。

    耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

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