| 单词 | umbrage |
| 释义 | um·brage I. 1. a. < lying … at the foot of some tree of friendly umbrage — Charlotte Brontë > b. < compete in the umbrage of big city printing wages and other costs — J.R.Malone > 2. < the thrush sings in that umbrage — L.P.Smith > < chimney pots veiled under blossomy umbrage — Thomas Carlyle > 3. archaic 4. a. < the least umbrage of a reflection upon this accident — Roger North > b. < the man toward whom our … State Department has never felt umbrage, let alone taken exception — H.L.Ickes > 5. < persons who feel most umbrage from the overshadowing aristocracy — Sir Walter Scott > — usually used in the phrases give umbrage or take umbrage < would give umbrage to them by not sending an invitation > < never take umbrage unless you can lick the guy — Jackie Gleason > 6. obsolete < veiling the murder with the umbrage of devotion and justice — Edmund Hickeringill > 7. obsolete Synonyms: see offense II. 1. 2. < umbraged … by finding no crumbs — Sylvia T. Warner > |
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