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单词 embarrassment
释义
embarrassment
noun[CorU]
uk
/ɪmˈbær.əs.mənt/us
/ɪmˈber.əs.mənt/
B2
thefeelingof beingembarrassed, or something that makes youfeelembarrassed:
尴尬，窘迫；局促不安；令人尴尬的事
Sheblushedwith embarrassment.她窘得脸都红了。
Myparentsareanembarrassmenttome!我父母让我觉得很丢脸！
More examples
  • I could havediedof embarrassment.
  • Herustledhispaperstohidehis embarrassment.
  • Luckily, I wassparedthe embarrassment of having tosinginfrontof everyone.
  • Nobodyspokefor at least fiveminutesand Rachelsquirmedin herchairwith embarrassment.
  • Shefeltacuteembarrassment at hisbehaviour.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Ashamed and embarrassed
  • abash
  • abashed
  • ashamed
  • awkward
  • awkwardly
  • egg
  • hangdog
  • have egg onyourfaceidiom
  • humbling
  • look
  • looksomeonein the eye/faceidiom
  • meet
  • meetsomeone'seyeidiom
  • not know where to putyourselfidiom
  • pride
  • shamefaced
  • shamefacedly
  • sheepish
  • squirm
  • swallowyourprideidiom
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Idiom

an embarrassment of riches
(Definition ofembarrassmentfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofembarrassment

embarrassment
The only way out of the resulting embarrassments is to admit that our own societies also understand power at least partly in ' magical ' terms.
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I know the dangers, the risks and the embarrassments.
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I cannot see why this country has subjected itself to all these embarrassments.
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There have been enough difficulties between employers and employed in the past without creating fresh embarrassments.
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The embarrassments of business, therefore, are still very great.
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Do they wish to avoid these embarrassments so that food taxes may be imposed with the minimum amount of political inconvenience?
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You may only be pushing gold up still further in terms of commodities and, without relieving yourself, adding to the embarrassments of the world.
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They have many problems, and in certain areas of government embarrassments have arisen as a result of that system.
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We must make up our minds to abjure that principle whatever consequent difficulties or embarrassments arise.
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The assumption is that our rôle is that of a lender or provider, which is always a comfortable one, free of any embarrassments.
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We are not talking about political embarrassments; we are talking about people's skins.
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The embarrassments of the developing countries are the fruit of what has been done by the international organisations.
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I am not saying that there have been major embarrassments, but the licensing system was not logical, nor was it consistently applied.
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There are other minor embarrassments, chiefly of a machinery nature, which one cannot foresee.
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His embarrassments would, therefore, be reduced if we nationalised more industries, because we should then know exactly how to adjust the priorities.
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Collocationswithembarrassment

embarrassment

These are words often used in combination withembarrassment.

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acute embarrassment
No person of any compassion could feel anything butacuteembarrassmentat visiting many of our city-centre prisons.
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embarrassment of riches
Even so, there remains anembarrassmentofricheswhen it comes to terminology.
From theCambridge English Corpus
feeling of embarrassment
I think that thisfeelingofembarrassmentis exaggerated.
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