embarrassments

英 [ɪmˈbærəsmənts]

美 [ɪmˈbɛrəsmənts]

n.  害羞; 窘迫; 愧疚; 难堪; 使人为难的处境; 困境; 令人为难(或难堪、尴尬)的人
embarrassment的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-VAR 尴尬;难堪;窘迫
  Embarrassmentis the feeling you have when you are embarrassed.
  1. It is a source of embarrassment to Londoners that the standard of pubs is so low...
     酒馆水准之低让伦敦人觉得颜面尽失。
  2. I think I would have died of embarrassment...
     我觉得自己难堪得要死。
  3. We apologise for any embarrassment this may have caused.
     我们为因此可能带来的尴尬表示歉意。
• N-COUNT 麻烦;难题;难堪的事
  Anembarrassmentis an action, event, or situation which causes problems for a politician, political party, government, or other public group.
  1. The poverty figures were undoubtedly an embarrassment to the president.
     贫困数字毫无疑问让总统非常难堪。
• N-SING 使人为难(或难堪)的人
  If you refer to a person asan embarrassment, you mean that you disapprove of them but cannot avoid your connection with them.
  1. You have been an embarrassment to us from the day Douglas married you.
     从道格拉斯娶你那天起，你就让我们非常难堪。
• PHRASE 好东西太多而成了问题
  If you say that someone has anembarrassment of riches, you mean that they have so many good things that these things are a problem.
  1. The art gallery's problem is an embarrassment of riches, with nowhere to put most of them.
     那家美术馆的问题是好作品太多，大多数作品无处陈放。

双语例句

• While textile and garment enterprises in Quanzhou still face many embarrassments such as traditional family management, a serious lack of human resources, lack of corporate own-brand which constrained the development of textile and garment enterprises in Quanzhou.
  同时泉州服装企业还存在着传统的家族式管理模式、人才资源严重缺乏、企业自有品牌少等不足制约了泉州服装企业的发展。
• Last year, Baidu encountered so many embarrassments, for example the issue of "staff firing", the issue of" click cheating "and the issue of" navigation ".
  去年的百度是麻烦重重，祸不单行，先后有裁员门，点击欺诈门和导航门。
• Commissioned by Ladbrokes, the research found that the biggest embarrassments were most likely to have been in the workplace while stories involving things going wrong in front of the in-laws were also very common.
  立博公司委托开展的这一调查发现，最让英国人脸红的事情最经常发生在工作场所中，在姻亲面前犯错的事情也是最让英国人脸红的。
• With the rapid development of the commercial economy, Some embarrassments cause by the wrong use of words in economic contract at times.
  随着商品经济的迅速发展，因经济合同文字表达不当引起的纠纷时有发生。
• But Mr Ma will be keen to distance himself from any more cabinet embarrassments.
  不过马先生会致力于让自己远离任何其他的内阁困窘。
• Contradictions and embarrassments are main emotion line penetrating his novel creation.
  矛盾与困惑是他小说创作的情感主线。
• A good command of euphemism helps to reduce puzzles and embarrassments in the language communication.
  对委婉语的了解，可以减少语言交际中的困惑或尴尬。
• Lacking mathematical tools, the analysis of cause and effect became a source of unending paradoxes and lingering embarrassments.
  缺乏数学工具，为因果分析带来了无休止的悖论和长久的难堪。
• So, the first step of remedial education is to sort the embarrassments from three aspects;
  因此，教学补偿的第一步是从以上三个方面对学习问题进行分类；
• Without the knowledge of other cultures, there will be barriers in tourist receptions when people from different cultural groups communicate with each other. Sometimes, even if the guide has mastered a foreign language very well, embarrassments and conflicts are unavoidable.
  在旅游接待中，由于不了解其它国家的文化知识，不同文化群体间会产生交际障碍，有时即便导游精通一门外语知识，尴尬和冲突的情形也在所难免。