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单词 umbrage
释义

umbrage/ʹumbrij/ noun

a feeling of pique or resentment

She took umbrage at the chairman's comment

archaic

shade or shadow, esp when cast by trees

shady branches; foliage

Middle English via French from Latin umbraticum, neuter of umbraticus of shade, from umbrare to shade, from umbra shade, shadow. Orig in sense 2a, later (17th cent.) ‘shadowy appearance, a suspicion or glimmering of something’, hence ‘grounds for suspicion’, giving rise to sense 1
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