| 单词 | burning disgrace |
| 释义 | > as lemmasburning disgrace d. figurative. In burning shame, burning disgrace, etc., the prevailing idea is now perhaps ‘flagrant, flaming, conspicuous’; but there is often a mixture of notions derived from other senses, such as those of branding, stigmatizing; torturing as an inward fire; causing the cheeks to glow, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > humility > feeling of shame > [adjective] > burning (of shame) burning shame1608 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xvii. 47 Burning shame detaines him from Cordelia. View more context for this quotation 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 44. ⁋5 It is really a burning shame this Man should be tolerated. 1817 T. Chalmers Series Disc. Christian Revelation vi. 202 [To] sit down in patient endurance under the burning disgrace of such a violation. < as lemmas |
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