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embarrassment

英 [ɪmˈbærəsmənt] 美 [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

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柯林斯英汉双解大词典

    • embarrassment /ɪmˈbærəsmənt/           TEM4

    • 1

      有变体名词 Embarrassment is the feeling you have when you are embarrassed. 尴尬; 难堪

      I think I would have died of embarrassment.

      我觉得我一定会尴尬得要死。

      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

      可数名词 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

      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

      单数型名词 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

      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。

英英释义

embarrassment[im'bærəsmənt]

  • n.
    • 1

      the shame you feel when your inadequacy or guilt is made public

    • 2

      the state of being embarrassed (usually by some financial inadequacy)

      he is currently suffering financial embarrassments

    • 3

      some event that causes someone to be embarrassed

      the outcome of the vote was an embarrassment for the liberals

    • 4

      extreme excess

      an embarrassment of riches

      同义词： overplus / plethora / superfluity

专业释义
  • 文学

    • 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

  • 经济学

    • 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

  • 医药科学

    • 窘迫，障碍，扰乱

网络释义
    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
    财务拮据
  • ability embarrassment
    能力困境
  • prisoner embarrassment
    囚徒困境

同根词

词根：embarrass

同近义词
  • n.

    • 窘迫，难堪；使人为难的人或事物；拮据

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双语例句

  • Embarrassment rooted her to the spot.

    她尴尬得呆住了。

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

    看到他们难堪的样子她不禁喜形于色。

  • She blushed with embarrassment.

    她难为情得脸红了。

原声例句

  • 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。

    1945年后的美国小说课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课

  • 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。

    1945年后的美国小说课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课

  • "And some of their statements might be an embarrassment to the Russian intelligence."

    VOA : standard.2010.07.09

  • Judge Mayer Joffe imposed the 15-year sentence on former national police chief Jackie Selebi, calling him an embarrassment to his country and the officers who served under him.

    VOA : standard.2010.08.03

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