embarrassment
音标发音
- 英式音标 [ɪm'bærəsmənt; em-]
- 美式音标 [ɪmˈber.əs.mənt]
- 国际音标 [im'bærəsmənt]
- 英式发音
- 美式发音
基本解释
- n. 窘迫,难堪;使人为难的人或事物;拮据
英汉例句
- She turned scarlet from embarrassment, once she realized what she had done.
她意识到自己做了什么后羞红了脸。 - The facts could cause embarrassment if they ever became public.
一旦披露出去,真相会让人非常尴尬。 - I wanted to spare Frances the embarrassment of discussing this subject.
讨论这个话题太尴尬,我不想让弗朗西斯难堪。 - I nearly died of embarrassment when he said that.
他说那话差点儿把我给难堪死了。 - She went bright pink with embarrassment.
她尴尬得满脸绯红。
词组短语
- social embarrassment 社交尴尬
- learning embarrassment 学习问题
- life embarrassment 人生困境
- role embarrassment 角色尴尬
- moral embarrassment 道义困境
短语
英英字典
- the feeling of being embarrassed, or something that makes you feel embarrassed
- Embarrassment is the feeling you have when you are embarrassed.
- An embarrassment is an action, event, or situation that causes problems for a politician, political party, government, or other public group.
- If you refer to a person as an embarrassment, you mean that you disapprove of them but cannot avoid your connection with them.
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专业释义
- 尴尬
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。经济学
- 困境
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。医药科学
- 窘迫,障碍,扰乱