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单词 embarrassment
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Definition of embarrassment in English:

embarrassment

noun ɛmˈbarəsməntɪmˈbarəsməntəmˈbɛrəsmənt
mass noun
  • 1A feeling of self-consciousness, shame, or awkwardness.

    I turned red with embarrassment
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Feelings of expectation, embarrassment, distress and emotional harm vary according to the individual.
    • As the addiction can be accompanied by feelings of shame and embarrassment, sufferers often find it difficult to seek help.
    • The embarrassment and shame it brings on the family means people are keeping quiet and women are being cocooned in their homes.
    • It evoked feelings of nostalgia, embarrassment and wonder at how I was thinking then.
    • Boys, to Nina's shame and embarrassment, were a constant preoccupation.
    • I felt a lot of shame, embarrassment and humiliation, I lived with all that for years.
    • Today I have no pride, no faith, only embarrassment, anger, and frustration.
    • He looks around and is consumed by acute embarrassment, even shame, at what he sees.
    • I wondered how much of this self-conscious embarrassment was induced by a few days in the surroundings of Oxford.
    • The actions of the fans were disrespectful, and they have brought shame and embarrassment on their club, and on this country.
    • It will be profound, a mixture of embarrassment, shame and a huge feeling of emptiness.
    • Horror, shock, embarrassment, confusion and sadness all swept across at the same time.
    • A lot of women still feel embarrassment and shame about their own desires.
    • Compulsions are obvious to an observer and can cause considerable shame and embarrassment.
    • They boast of getting ‘wrecked’ at weekends as a matter of pride rather than shame or embarrassment.
    • I put down my music, eyes pricking and throat closing up with anxiety, rage, confusion and embarrassment.
    • This to me sounds like some gay people feel shame or embarrassment in having a partner of the same sex.
    • Pauline said today she feared that embarrassment and shame could be stopping Christine and Nicholas from contacting her.
    • This is a highly readable and strangely affecting comedy of embarrassment, resentment, grief and love.
    • Along with embarrassment and guilt, shame is one of the emotions that motivate moral behaviour.
    Synonyms
    awkwardness, self-consciousness, unease, uneasiness, discomfort, discomfiture, edginess
    shame, humiliation, mortification, ignominy
    sheepishness, shyness, bashfulness
    discomposure, flusteredness, perturbation, confusion, agitation, distress, chagrin
    1. 1.1count noun A person or thing causing feelings of embarrassment.
      he was an embarrassment who was safely left ignored
      her extreme views might be an embarrassment to the movement
      Example sentencesExamples
      • On both the foreign policy and the fiscal fronts, the Bush administration is trying to rewrite history, to explain away its current embarrassments.
      • Don't allow the planners to be carried away with pretentious, pie-in-the-sky ideas which will become the rubbish-strewn embarrassments of the future.
      • Put together three unrelated embarrassments on a single day and all the good that has been achieved since 1997 is supposed to be overshadowed and forgotten.
      • Clearly, the career people in the intel community are feeling emboldened by the White House's recent Iraq embarrassments.
      • Adolescents who are depressed may be hypersensitive and overreact to minor problems or embarrassments.
      • Over the years I have been sickened by the embarrassments that plagued his tenure and the reprehensible antagonism he suffered by Republican leaders.
      • The current director resigned amid a series of scandalous embarrassments involving children that were supposed to be in Florida's care.
      • Their fashion embarrassments involved medallions and leisure suits, ours were about greasy hair, Kodiaks and lumberjackets.
      • Following several previous embarrassments, the city is expected to nix its deal with the company and resume parking responsibilities itself.
      • Now, less prone to the pervasive embarrassments of adolescence, her emotional appreciation of the book is simply a memory.
      • ‘Three embarrassments on top of one another seems too much,’ one source close to the Cabinet conceded last night.
      • But the family story, with all its problems, embarrassments and dysfunctional members, still has its universal appeal, at home and abroad.
      • Despite our loser basketball players, and a few other embarrassments, it's been difficult to quell the American spirit.
      • Among other embarrassments: the firms were run by felons and hired felons to make the pro-law enforcement pitch.
      • The theft follows other recent embarrassments to the department, specifically, allegations of cheating and irregularities in test scoring.
      • I can only assume that the Republicans became so good at manufacturing these scandals and embarrassments that the press forgot how to do it for themselves.
      • Well, certainly those would be embarrassments for the president.
      • The continuing embarrassments culminated in the most public of Europe's failures, ‘safe havens’.
      • After several years of headaches, embarrassments and controversies, the Nunavut department of education can report at least one piece of good news.
      • Supporters of devolution have become inured to setbacks, diversions, embarrassments, disappointments and shocks.
    2. 1.2 Financial difficulty.
      his temporary financial embarrassment
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He cannot say he was unprepared for York council's financial embarrassment.
      Synonyms
      difficulty, predicament, plight, problem, mess, entanglement, imbroglio
      dilemma, quandary
      informal bind, jam, pickle, fix, scrape

Phrases

  • an embarrassment of riches (or choice)

    • More options or resources than one knows what to do with.

      picking a highlight from such an embarrassment of riches is hard
      there is an embarrassment of intellectual riches in the two anthologies
      as consumers we have an embarrassment of choice
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Minor affluence is a far cry from what I'd call "an embarrassment of riches."
      • What at first seems to be nothing more than a contractual obligation thing is actually an embarrassment of riches.
      • Suddenly, the selectors who hardly knew where to turn earlier in the season have an embarrassment of riches.
      • Given the generosity with which people describe themselves, such Web sites are an embarrassment of riches.
      • This collection of gems puts him in that happy predicament the French call "an embarrassment of choices."
      • He has come full bloom at the time Indian cricket has an embarrassment of riches.
      • We've like I said, we have an embarrassment of riches.
      • From being an embarrassment up front, they have an embarrassment of riches.
      • Turning to his bibliography, a rigorous catalogue of debates in book and periodical, we face an embarrassment of choice.
      • In short, what we have here is an astonishing wealth and stylistic range of soundscapes, quite literally an embarrassment of riches.
 
 

Definition of embarrassment in US English:

embarrassment

nounəmˈbɛrəsməntəmˈberəsmənt
  • 1A feeling of self-consciousness, shame, or awkwardness.

    I turned red with embarrassment
    Example sentencesExamples
    • This is a highly readable and strangely affecting comedy of embarrassment, resentment, grief and love.
    • They boast of getting ‘wrecked’ at weekends as a matter of pride rather than shame or embarrassment.
    • The embarrassment and shame it brings on the family means people are keeping quiet and women are being cocooned in their homes.
    • Pauline said today she feared that embarrassment and shame could be stopping Christine and Nicholas from contacting her.
    • He looks around and is consumed by acute embarrassment, even shame, at what he sees.
    • A lot of women still feel embarrassment and shame about their own desires.
    • Horror, shock, embarrassment, confusion and sadness all swept across at the same time.
    • As the addiction can be accompanied by feelings of shame and embarrassment, sufferers often find it difficult to seek help.
    • The actions of the fans were disrespectful, and they have brought shame and embarrassment on their club, and on this country.
    • I felt a lot of shame, embarrassment and humiliation, I lived with all that for years.
    • Boys, to Nina's shame and embarrassment, were a constant preoccupation.
    • Today I have no pride, no faith, only embarrassment, anger, and frustration.
    • Compulsions are obvious to an observer and can cause considerable shame and embarrassment.
    • Feelings of expectation, embarrassment, distress and emotional harm vary according to the individual.
    • It evoked feelings of nostalgia, embarrassment and wonder at how I was thinking then.
    • I wondered how much of this self-conscious embarrassment was induced by a few days in the surroundings of Oxford.
    • Along with embarrassment and guilt, shame is one of the emotions that motivate moral behaviour.
    • It will be profound, a mixture of embarrassment, shame and a huge feeling of emptiness.
    • I put down my music, eyes pricking and throat closing up with anxiety, rage, confusion and embarrassment.
    • This to me sounds like some gay people feel shame or embarrassment in having a partner of the same sex.
    Synonyms
    awkwardness, self-consciousness, unease, uneasiness, discomfort, discomfiture, edginess
    1. 1.1 A person or thing causing embarrassment.
      he was an embarrassment who was safely left ignored
      her extreme views might be an embarrassment to the movement
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Despite our loser basketball players, and a few other embarrassments, it's been difficult to quell the American spirit.
      • Among other embarrassments: the firms were run by felons and hired felons to make the pro-law enforcement pitch.
      • Well, certainly those would be embarrassments for the president.
      • Adolescents who are depressed may be hypersensitive and overreact to minor problems or embarrassments.
      • On both the foreign policy and the fiscal fronts, the Bush administration is trying to rewrite history, to explain away its current embarrassments.
      • ‘Three embarrassments on top of one another seems too much,’ one source close to the Cabinet conceded last night.
      • I can only assume that the Republicans became so good at manufacturing these scandals and embarrassments that the press forgot how to do it for themselves.
      • Their fashion embarrassments involved medallions and leisure suits, ours were about greasy hair, Kodiaks and lumberjackets.
      • Clearly, the career people in the intel community are feeling emboldened by the White House's recent Iraq embarrassments.
      • But the family story, with all its problems, embarrassments and dysfunctional members, still has its universal appeal, at home and abroad.
      • Put together three unrelated embarrassments on a single day and all the good that has been achieved since 1997 is supposed to be overshadowed and forgotten.
      • The current director resigned amid a series of scandalous embarrassments involving children that were supposed to be in Florida's care.
      • Over the years I have been sickened by the embarrassments that plagued his tenure and the reprehensible antagonism he suffered by Republican leaders.
      • After several years of headaches, embarrassments and controversies, the Nunavut department of education can report at least one piece of good news.
      • Following several previous embarrassments, the city is expected to nix its deal with the company and resume parking responsibilities itself.
      • Now, less prone to the pervasive embarrassments of adolescence, her emotional appreciation of the book is simply a memory.
      • Supporters of devolution have become inured to setbacks, diversions, embarrassments, disappointments and shocks.
      • The theft follows other recent embarrassments to the department, specifically, allegations of cheating and irregularities in test scoring.
      • The continuing embarrassments culminated in the most public of Europe's failures, ‘safe havens’.
      • Don't allow the planners to be carried away with pretentious, pie-in-the-sky ideas which will become the rubbish-strewn embarrassments of the future.
    2. 1.2 Financial difficulty.
      his temporary financial embarrassment
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He cannot say he was unprepared for York council's financial embarrassment.
      Synonyms
      difficulty, predicament, plight, problem, mess, entanglement, imbroglio

Phrases

  • embarrassment of riches (or choice)

    • More options or resources than one knows what to do with.

      picking a highlight from such an embarrassment of riches is hard
      there is an embarrassment of intellectual riches in the two anthologies
      as consumers we have an embarrassment of choice
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Suddenly, the selectors who hardly knew where to turn earlier in the season have an embarrassment of riches.
      • From being an embarrassment up front, they have an embarrassment of riches.
      • Given the generosity with which people describe themselves, such Web sites are an embarrassment of riches.
      • Minor affluence is a far cry from what I'd call "an embarrassment of riches."
      • This collection of gems puts him in that happy predicament the French call "an embarrassment of choices."
      • We've like I said, we have an embarrassment of riches.
      • In short, what we have here is an astonishing wealth and stylistic range of soundscapes, quite literally an embarrassment of riches.
      • Turning to his bibliography, a rigorous catalogue of debates in book and periodical, we face an embarrassment of choice.
      • What at first seems to be nothing more than a contractual obligation thing is actually an embarrassment of riches.
      • He has come full bloom at the time Indian cricket has an embarrassment of riches.
 
 
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