"an ignominious retreat"
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ADJ If you describe an experience or action as ignominious, you mean it is embarrassing because it shows a great lack of success. 不光彩的; 令人尴尬的 [正式] [ADV with v]
...their ignominious defeat.
...他们的耻辱失败。
ignominiously ADV
Their soldiers had to retreat ignominiously after losing hundreds of lives.
在损失数百条生命后,他们的士兵被迫灰溜溜地撤退了。
He made one mistake and his career came to an ignominious end.
他犯了一个错误,他的事业就很不体面地结束了。
Four years ago, he suffered an ignominious first-round exit.
四年前,他遭受了首轮出局的耻辱。
Social media backers take that ignominious episode in stride.
社会媒体的支持者对这种盲从的小插曲并不反对。
Satan finds it ignominious and shameful to lower himself to God, to bow and sue for grace with suppliant knee and deify His power, but this kind of submission is shameful not because it's simply always shameful so to debase oneself.
撒旦认为对上帝放低身段,屈膝承欢,并认可他的力量实在是可耻的,但是这种屈从之所以是耻辱,并非是因为通常身段被贬低时会感到耻辱。
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