embarrassment

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A state of discomfort arising from bashfulness or consciousness of having violated a social rule; humiliation. countable,uncountable
    — The desired effect [of affectionate teasing] is a look of pleasurable embarrassment, as if you administered a compliment. Anyone who doesn't stop teasing immediately upon producing real embarrassment, anger or tears is not really teasing.
  2. A person or thing which is the cause of humiliation to another. countable,uncountable
    — Jack, you are an embarrassment to this family.
  3. A large collection of good or valuable things, especially one that exceeds requirements or causes some sort of hindrance. countable,uncountable
    — There are over 5,000 Americans now in Paris, many artists, singers, musicians, writers, and actors, so many, indeed, the committee could hardly pick a program from an embarrassment of volunteers.
  4. A state of confusion; hesitation; uncertainty. countable,uncountable
    — […]and render them more intelligible than all the commentaries which have been written on them, for they generally render the authour more obscure, and lead the reader into greater embarrassments, by what they explain, than by what they leave untouched.
  5. Impairment of function due to disease: respiratory embarrassment. countable,uncountable
  6. Difficulty in financial matters; poverty. countable,dated,uncountable
  7. A group of pandas (ie. red panda, giant panda) collective,countable,uncountable

词形变化

embarrassments plural

词汇关系

衍生词
criterion of embarrassment disembarrassment e-barrassment embarrassment of riches empathic embarrassment how embarrassment inductive embarrassment secondhand embarrassment unembarrassment vicarious embarrassment

词源

Etymology tree
Akkadian 𒆟 (rakāsum)
Akkadian 𒄙 (markasu)bor.
Classical Syriac ܡܰܪܫܳܐ (maršā)bor.
Arabic مَرَسَة (marasa)der.
Old Galician-Portuguese baraço
Old Galician-Portuguese embaraçarbor.
Old Spanish embaraçar
Spanish embarazarbor.
French embarrasserbor.
English embarrass
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom
Proto-Italic *-mentom
Latin -mentum
Old French -mentbor.
Middle English -ment
English -ment
English embarrassment
From embarrass + -ment.
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