embarrassment

1. N-VAR Embarrassment is the feeling you have when you are embarrassed. 尲尬; 難堪

I think I would have died of embarrassment. 我覺得我一定會尲尬得要死。

We apologize for any embarrassment this may have caused. 我們爲(wèi)可能會帶來的任何尲尬而道歉。

2. N-COUNT An embarrassment is an action, event, or situation that causes problems for a politician, political party, government, or other public group. 難堪的事

The poverty figures were undoubtedly an embarrassment to the president. 這些貧睏數(shù)字無疑是令縂統(tǒng)難堪的一件事。

3. N-SING If you refer to a person as an embarrassment, you mean that you disapprove of them but cannot avoid your connection with them. 丟臉的人[表不滿]

You have been an embarrassment to us from the day Doug married you. 自從你和道格結(jié)婚的那天起你對我們來講一直是個丟臉的人。