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embarrassed

/em-bar-uhs/US // ɛmˈbær əs //UK // (ɪmˈbærəs) //

尴尬的,窘迫的,尴尬,窘迫

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to cause confusion and shame to; make uncomfortably self-conscious; disconcert; abash: His bad table manners embarrassed her.
    • : to make difficult or intricate, as a question or problem; complicate.
    • : to put obstacles or difficulties in the way of; impede: The motion was advanced in order to embarrass the progress of the bill.
    • : to beset with financial difficulties; burden with debt: The decline in sales embarrassed the company.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to become disconcerted, abashed, or confused.

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Examples

  • Usually, it takes at least one full day in Cancun to do something embarrassing you’ll never live down.

  • Convinced King was “the world’s most notorious liar,” the FBI director sought information that would embarrass King and induce him to step aside as leader of the civil rights movement.

  • Several Democrats, embarrassed by the entire process, joined with Republicans to pass a resolution denying that Congress, the courts or any tribunal could reverse the 1876 election results.

  • Instead, we are home, missing the good and the frustrating and weird parts of our families and creating new traditions with our children — ones that will undoubtedly later embarrass them.

  • We’ll continue to talk openly and learn more about female physiology and not treat it as something to be embarrassed by or ignored.

  • I actually downloaded the app last summer and was embarrassed because none of my friends seemed to use it.

  • I was so embarrassed my face reddened but Lee kept it right up.

  • But outsiders, generally, are embarrassed or appalled, and so are a growing number of locals.

  • I am not remotely embarrassed to relate he weighed just 9lb.

  • In particular, a video of an apparently inebriated Morgan has embarrassed supporters of the referendum.

  • Edna was a trifle embarrassed at being thus signaled out for the imperious little woman's favor.

  • She was even meditating a retreat, inexplicably embarrassed, when an inner door opened and Lady Victoria entered.

  • Frederick, embarrassed, thought his sister was carrying the jest too far.

  • Embarrassed and ashamed, she was obliged to confess that her knowledge of the language was confined to one quotation.

  • It failed to secure the capital it sought and was seriously embarrassed throughout its three years' existence.