Embarrassing
[ɪm'bærəsɪŋ]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) causing to feel shame or chagrin or vexation; 'the embarrassing moment when she found her petticoat down around her ankles'; 'it was mortifying to know he had heard every word' .
乔迪校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Embarrass
校對:帕蒂
例句/造句/用法:
- It quite spoiled my pleasure for that night because it was so very embarrassing and so very ridiculous. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Mrs. Fisher, moreover, had no embarrassing curiosity. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- I couldn't, it was so embarrassing for me. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- That is the subject _we_ think of, and it gives us, from morning to night, enough to think about, without embarrassing our heads concerning others. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- The break he set between his last two sentences was quite embarrassing to his hearer. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- When you go out to look at my island, I will supply you with a less embarrassing dress—more adapted for walking and climbing. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- It's too embarrassing now. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- Helena made a pretty grimace, and ordered Maurice back to his chair, which was at a safe distance, and did not admit of any embarrassing endearments. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- The meeting was said to have been embarrassing to both, and the conversation was principally apologetic. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- She stood so near to one, pressing herself near upon one, in a way that was most embarrassing and oppressive. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- I went immediately to Mr. Edison and told him of the forgery and the amount of money taken, and in what an embarrassing position we were for the next pay-roll. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- From one fruitless care, it was turned away to another care much more intricate, much more embarrassing, and just equally fruitless. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The administration had indeed a most embarrassing problem to solve. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- A woman once told me that she had let her son grow up ignorant of his sexual life because a mother should never mention anything 'embarrassing' to her child. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- I troubled him with no embarrassing questions on this delicate subject. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Emma was extremely glad to see himbut there was a degree of confusiona number of embarrassing recollections on each side. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- The subject is dreadfully embarrassing. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- My position was so embarrassing in fact that I made several applications during the siege to be relieved. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- There were so many more volunteers than had been called for that the question whom to accept was quite embarrassing to the governor, Richard Yates. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Her two absent cousins, especially Maria, were much in her thoughts on seeing him; but no embarrassing remembrance affected _his_ spirits. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- As he spoke, he was checked by an embarrassing sense of the complications to which this might lead. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Meade's position afterwards proved embarrassing to me if not to him. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- But, leaning on the breast-high window, and staring in out of the darkness, they find the visitor extremely embarrassing. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
校對:帕蒂