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单词 a shame
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a shame
b. Similarly a shame, a great shame. Now common in colloquial use.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > disgrace or dishonour > [noun] > cause of disgrace > fact or circumstance
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a great shame1390
1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 28 Which were a schame unto his trowthe.
c1450 Mirk's Festial 27 Hit was a gret schame to all hom þat werne gret clerkes.
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 16v If it be a shame for..a pleadar of causes to be ignorant of the lawe wherein he dealeth, a greater shame is it for a professor of husbandry, to be vnskilful in the ground whereon his whole trade lyeth.
1648 Hunting of Fox 36 'Tis a foul shame that you should be last in returning to a sence of your duty.
1663 S. Pepys Diary 19 Jan. (1971) IV. 17 They..pay 15, or 20 sometimes, per cent for their money—which is a most horrid shame.
1799 H. Lee Canterbury Tales (ed. 2) I. 199 What a shame yon pretty cot should be suffered to go to ruin!
1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas III. vii. v. 66 It was a burning shame to see such a waste of provisions.
1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering II. 334 I envy you the concatenation, Colonel—it is a shame to me not to have drawn the same conclusion.
1858 S. Brooks Gordian Knot (1860) xvi. 119 ‘It's a —— shame’, jerked out Mr. Spenser.
1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt II. xxii. 107 It's a sin and a shame.
1889 J. K. Jerome Three Men in Boat 166 George said it was a wicked shame of Mrs. G.
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