喜樂美語
  1. 1aB1/ɪmˈberəsɪŋ/ · /ɪmˈbærəsɪŋ/令人尷尬的；很糗的

    Used about a thing, an event, or a question that makes someone feel ashamed, nervous, or uncomfortable, especially in front of other people.

    示範例句 · Example

    It was so embarrassing — I couldn't remember my new classmate's name.

    逐字它是如此令人尷尬的——我想不起來我新同學的名字。

    「embarrassing」形容的是「事情」，不是人的心情：讓人覺得丟臉、不自在、不知道該說什麼的那件事、那個問題、那個場面。可以想成：-ing 的形容詞是往外指，指向「製造這種感覺的東西」（an embarrassing question 是問題在讓你難為情）；-ed 則往內指，指向「感覺到的那個人」（I was embarrassed）。interesting／interested、boring／bored 也是同一個形狀。另外 embarrassing 講的多半是「在別人面前有點糗」，程度比 ashamed（做錯事的羞愧）輕很多。

    常見搭配

    • an embarrassing question

      令人難為情的問題

      a question that makes the person answering it feel uncomfortable

      She asked a lot of embarrassing questions about my old school photos.

    • an embarrassing situation

      尷尬的場面

      a situation in which people do not know what to say or do

      We were both waiting for the same bus seat — an embarrassing situation!

    • the most embarrassing moment

      最糗的一刻

      the time you felt the most uncomfortable in front of other people

      What was your most embarrassing moment at school?

    • deeply embarrassing

      極為難堪的

      extremely embarrassing, especially in a public or serious way

      The error in the timetable was deeply embarrassing for the school.

    • embarrassing for somebody

      讓某人難堪

      making a particular person or group feel uncomfortable

      The mix-up was embarrassing for everyone on stage.

    意思相近

    awkwardhumiliatinguncomfortablemortifyingcringeworthy

core核心畫面

Think of the moment you call your teacher "Mum" in front of the whole class: your face goes hot, you wish the floor would open. Embarrassing describes the thing that does that to you — the event, the question, the photo — not the feeling itself. The feeling is ; the cause is embarrassing.

可以想成你在全班面前不小心把老師叫成「媽」的那一秒：臉一下子燒起來，只想找個地洞鑽。embarrassing 形容的是「造成那個瞬間的東西」——那件事、那個問題、那張照片，而不是你心裡的感覺。感覺的那一邊是 embarrassed（我覺得很糗），製造感覺的那一邊是 embarrassing（這件事很糗）；這兩個常被學習者互換，記住 -ing 指向外面的來源就不容易錯。

同家族的字

比較級 more embarrassing最高級 most embarrassing

意思相近

awkwardhumiliatinguncomfortablemortifyingcringeworthy

原始詞典資料3 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。

embarrassingnoun/ɪmˈbæɹ.ə.sɪŋ/

  • 1

    The action of the verb to embarrass; embarrassment.

    • May 11, 1715, Robert Wodrow, letter to Mrs Wodrow It seemed, at first, to be agreed, that the King should be addressed by the Assembly; but the time of presenting, because of the present embarrassings of affairs, to be left to the Commission.

embarrassingadj/ɪmˈbæɹ.ə.sɪŋ/

  • 1

    Causing embarrassment; leading to a feeling of uncomfortable shame or self-consciousness.

    • The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen. No one queried it. It was in the classic pattern of human weakness, mean and embarrassing and sad.
    • In a famously embarrassing incident in 1996, America Online's errant dirty-word filter prevented residents of the British town Scunthorpe from signing up as new customers.

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