Think of it as falling out of other people's good opinion. Grace here means the favour and good standing people grant you; dis- takes it away. Picture someone who used to be welcome in the room — greeted, trusted, spoken well of — and then one act changes how everyone looks at them. Nothing about their body has changed; what has changed is the whole room's regard. Disgrace is that lost standing, seen from the outside.
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原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
disgracenoun/dɪsˈɡɹeɪs/
- 1
The condition of being out of favor; loss of favor, regard, or respect.
- I heare / Macduffe liues in diſgrace. Sir, can you tell / Where he beſtowes himſelfe?
- 2
The state of being dishonored, or covered with shame.
- Now she lives in disgrace.
- 3
Someone or something which brings dishonor; the cause of reproach or shame; great discredit.
- His behaviour at the party was a total disgrace! He was leeching on all the ladies, and insulting the men.
- Practice and whipping were alike unavailing, and Epps, satisfied of it at last, swore I was a disgrace—that I was not fit to associate with a cotton-picking "nigger"—that I could not pick enough in a day to pay the trouble of weighing it, and that I should go into the cotton field no more.
- 4
obsoleteAn act of unkindness; a disfavor.
- As for the pulling of them [ambitious men] downe, if the Affaires require it, and that it may not be done with ſafety ſuddainly, the onely Way is, the Enterchange, continually of Fauours, and Diſgraces, whereby they may not know, what to expect; And be, as it were, in a Wood.
disgraceverb/dɪsˈɡɹeɪs/
- 1
To put someone or something out of favor; to bring shame or ignominy upon.
- […] some families renounced the use of a certain praenomen which had been disgraced by one of their name […]
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