- 1厚顏無恥(指這種態度)
Shamelessness is the name for that quality: not ashamed of bad behaviour, even when other people think you should be. It is a noun. You talk about someone’s shamelessness, or the shamelessness of a lie or an .
Shamelessness Shamelessness是 the name for that quality這種特質的名稱:not seeming ashamed of bad behaviour對不好的行為看起來不覺得羞恥,even when other people think you should be即使其他人覺得你應該感到羞恥。 It is它是 a noun一個名詞。 You talk about你會說 someone’s shamelessness某人的shamelessness,or the shamelessness of a lie or an advert或一個謊言、一則廣告的shamelessness。
In serious talk it is a blaming word — you are saying the person, or the act, shows no decent embarrassment. Though actually, writers sometimes use it with a mix of shock and unwilling admiration, when a person is so bold that you cannot look away.
In serious talk在嚴肅的談話裡 it is它是 a blaming word一個帶有指責意味的詞——you are saying你是在說 the person, or the act那個人,或那個行為,shows no decent embarrassment沒有表現出應有的難為情。 Though actually不過其實 writers作家 sometimes use it with a mix of shock and unwilling admiration有時會帶著又驚又不甘願佩服的心情使用它,when a person is so bold that you cannot look away當一個人大膽到讓你移不開視線的時候。
It is the same idea as , only packed as a thing you can point to. You will meet it more in newspapers and essays than in chat; in speech people often just say “That was .”
It is它是 the same idea as shameless跟shameless是同一個概念,only packed as a thing you can point to只是被包裝成一個你可以指出來的東西。 You will meet it你會在 more in newspapers and essays than in chat報紙和論說文裡遇到它,比在閒聊裡更多;in speech在口語中 people often just say人們常常只會說 “That was shameless.”「That was shameless」(那真是不要臉)。
core核心畫面
組成shameless + -ness. -ness makes a noun meaning “the quality of being shameless”. Shameless is shame + -less, from Old English sċamlēas.
同家族的字
- shamethe feeling this word says someone does not show
- shamelessthe adjective this noun is built from
- shamelesslythe adverb: how the thing was done
原始詞典資料2 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。
shamelessnessnoun
- 1
The state or characteristic of being shameless.
- [H]e added to all his other shamelessness this, that he offered the patriarch a large sum of money to buy a bishopric of him.
- "For instance as to her shamelessness. She was always ready to run half naked about the hills. . . ."
- 2
rareAn utterance or action which is shameless.
- Shoals of letters are published every week from all parts of the Union telling stories of the unhappiness produced by marriage, sometimes mere bursts of ill-temper, often cynical shamelessnesses, occasionally stories of deep pathos, but all intended as denunciations of the existing scheme of morals, all followed by the same remark that while marriage exists there can be no happiness for mankind.
- He was able to write in the gloom of his bottle only because of his noseglow nose's glow as it slid over the paper and while he scribbled & scratched nameless shamelessnesses about ethers everybody ever he met. . . .
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