名词难堪; 窘迫; 令人难堪或耻辱的事
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1. Financial embarrassment made her sell her house.
财政拮据逼得她卖掉她自己的房子。
2. Coughing at a concert can be a real embarrassment.
在音乐会上咳嗽真会使人难堪。
3. My face turned red with embarrassment.
我窘得脸都红了。
1. 困窘：作者用幽默的对话、生动的(vivid)笔触让读者感受哈利的愤怒(anger)、快乐(happiness)、困窘(embarrassment)、疑惑(confusion)和烦恼(annoyance). 这也是为什么全世界有成千上万的读者深深为哈利-波特着迷的原因.
2. 障碍：incomplete 不完全的 | embarrassment 障碍 | atmosphere 大气
3. 窘迫;难堪：hit 使突然想起 | embarrassment 窘迫;难堪 | arrange 安排;备好
1. 尴尬;难堪;窘迫
Embarrassment is the feeling you have when you are embarrassed.
e.g. It is a source of embarrassment to Londoners that the standard of pubs is so low...
酒馆水准之低让伦敦人觉得颜面尽失。
e.g. I think I would have died of embarrassment...
我觉得自己难堪得要死。
2. 麻烦;难题;难堪的事
An embarrassment is an action, event, or situation which causes problems for a politician, political party, government, or other public group.
e.g. The poverty figures were undoubtedly an embarrassment to the president.
贫困数字毫无疑问让总统非常难堪。
3. 使人为难(或难堪)的人
If you refer to a person as an embarrassment, you mean that you disapprove of them but cannot avoid your connection with them.
e.g. You have been an embarrassment to us from the day Douglas married you.
从道格拉斯娶你那天起，你就让我们非常难堪。
4. 好东西太多而成了问题
If you say that someone has an embarrassment of riches, you mean that they have so many good things that these things are a problem.
e.g. The art gallery's problem is an embarrassment of riches, with nowhere to put most of them.
那家美术馆的问题是好作品太多，大多数作品无处陈放。
1. A legitimacy check is a must these days if they want to avoid the embarrassment of being challenged and ending up retracting poorly conceived orders.
2. When he cracked during the climactic final line of " Reason to Believe, " Stewart laughed with mock embarrassment.
3. I caused unnecessary embarrassment to my peers as well as people I have been close with in the past.
4. " I humbly apologize for the embarrassment that my carelessness and clumsiness caused, " Ishikawa told a news conference before leaving Japan for next week's US Open.
5. As you deliberate how to tell the person without embarrassment, the clock stops once another colleague joins your party.
6. But Deng said it is unforgivable for parents to abandon their children only out of embarrassment for their congenital disorders.
7. Who's to say which is the truer experience of embarrassment, between the fervor of adolescence and the relative nonchalance of adults?
8. China's first emergency contraception center was set up in Chongqing the same month to help young girls out of the embarrassment of unexpected pregnancies.
9. Some corrupt officials become so shameless that exposure of their misdeeds and subsequent public criticisms no longer are sources of shame or embarrassment for them.
10. The former world statesman's implication in a long series of scandals and court cases has proved an embarrassment to his party.
noun
1. extreme excess
e.g. an embarrassment of riches
Synonym: overplus plethora superfluity
2. some event that causes someone to be embarrassed
e.g. the outcome of the vote was an embarrassment for the liberals
3. the shame you feel when your inadequacy or guilt is made public
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4. the state of being embarrassed (usually by some financial inadequacy)
e.g. he is currently suffering financial embarrassments