embarrassment

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

I think I would have died of embarrassment. 我覺(jué)得我一定會(huì)尷尬得要死。

We apologize for any embarrassment this may have caused. 我們?yōu)榭赡軙?huì)帶來(lái)的任何尷尬而道歉。

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. 這些貧困數(shù)字無(wú)疑是令總統(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(mǎn)]

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(duì)我們來(lái)講一直是個(gè)丟臉的人。