embarrassments

英 [ɪmˈbærəsmənts]

美 [ɪmˈbɛrəsmənts]

n.  害羞; 窘迫; 愧疚; 难堪; 使人为难的处境; 困境; 令人为难(或难堪、尴尬)的人
embarrassment的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-VAR 尴尬;难堪;窘迫
  Embarrassmentis the feeling you have when you are embarrassed.
  1. It is a source of embarrassment to Londoners that the standard of pubs is so low...
     酒馆水准之低让伦敦人觉得颜面尽失。
  2. I think I would have died of embarrassment...
     我觉得自己难堪得要死。
  3. We apologise for any embarrassment this may have caused.
     我们为因此可能带来的尴尬表示歉意。
• N-COUNT 麻烦;难题;难堪的事
  Anembarrassmentis an action, event, or situation which causes problems for a politician, political party, government, or other public group.
  1. The poverty figures were undoubtedly an embarrassment to the president.
     贫困数字毫无疑问让总统非常难堪。
• N-SING 使人为难(或难堪)的人
  If you refer to a person asan embarrassment, you mean that you disapprove of them but cannot avoid your connection with them.
  1. You have been an embarrassment to us from the day Douglas married you.
     从道格拉斯娶你那天起，你就让我们非常难堪。
• PHRASE 好东西太多而成了问题
  If you say that someone has anembarrassment of riches, you mean that they have so many good things that these things are a problem.
  1. The art gallery's problem is an embarrassment of riches, with nowhere to put most of them.
     那家美术馆的问题是好作品太多，大多数作品无处陈放。

双语例句

• With the rapid development of the commercial economy, Some embarrassments cause by the wrong use of words in economic contract at times.
  随着商品经济的迅速发展，因经济合同文字表达不当引起的纠纷时有发生。
• Trace hopes that the rollcall of corporate embarrassments will shorten thanks to its latest initiative.
  Trace希望，它的最新举措能让公司糗事列表有所缩短。
• The large and complex supervisory main line-up, the simple and empty views to the public opinions, the impetuous and arbitrary monitoring object orientation are the embarrassments and pitfalls facing the internet forum.
  庞大复杂的监督主体阵容、空洞简单的舆论本体意见、浮躁恣意的监督客体取向是当前网络论坛进行舆论监督时面临的尴尬误区。
• Keep track of any failures, embarrassments or blunders.
  记录你经历的任何失败、难堪或错误。
• Without the knowledge of other cultures, there will be barriers in tourist receptions when people from different cultural groups communicate with each other. Sometimes, even if the guide has mastered a foreign language very well, embarrassments and conflicts are unavoidable.
  在旅游接待中，由于不了解其它国家的文化知识，不同文化群体间会产生交际障碍，有时即便导游精通一门外语知识，尴尬和冲突的情形也在所难免。
• And it is one of the biggest embarrassments for quite a while actually.
  而且实际上这一次是当很长一段时间以来碰到的最大的窘境之一。
• Commissioned by Ladbrokes, the research found that the biggest embarrassments were most likely to have been in the workplace while stories involving things going wrong in front of the in-laws were also very common.
  立博公司委托开展的这一调查发现，最让英国人脸红的事情最经常发生在工作场所中，在姻亲面前犯错的事情也是最让英国人脸红的。
• So, the first step of remedial education is to sort the embarrassments from three aspects;
  因此，教学补偿的第一步是从以上三个方面对学习问题进行分类；
• And since many new things, perhaps most new things, turn out to be bad ideas, this means U-turns and embarrassments and all the other troubles that politicians and administrators dislike so intensely.
  而事实上，许多新事物，或者说大多数新事物，都不是什么好主意，这也就意味着政策反复和其他尴尬情形。政客和管理者对这些麻烦都深恶痛绝。
• Contradictions and embarrassments are main emotion line penetrating his novel creation.
  矛盾与困惑是他小说创作的情感主线。