indignity

英 [ɪnˈdɪɡnəti]

美 [ɪnˈdɪɡnəti]

n.  侮辱; 轻蔑; 侮辱性的行为

复数：indignities　

TOEFLGRETEM8法律

Collins.1 / BNC.14276 / COCA.16237

牛津词典

noun

• 侮辱；轻蔑；侮辱性的行为
  a situation that makes you feel embarrassed or ashamed because you are not treated with respect; an act that causes these feelings
  1. The chairman suffered the indignity of being refused admission to the meeting.
     主席蒙受了被拒于会议之外的侮辱。
  2. the daily indignities of imprisonment
     身陷囹圄每日所带来的侮辱

柯林斯词典

• N-VAR 侮辱;轻蔑
  If you talk aboutthe indignity ofdoing something, you mean that it makes you feel embarrassed or unimportant.
  1. Later, he suffered the indignity of having to flee angry protesters...
     后来,他不得不极不光彩地避开愤怒的抗议者溜走了。
  2. What sort of indignities would he be forced to endure?
     他会被迫忍受什么样的侮辱呢？

英英释义

noun

• an affront to one's dignity or self-esteem

双语例句

• Clint suffered the indignity of being called "puppy" in front of his girlfriend.
  克林特蒙受了在女友面前被称之为“小狗子”的侮辱。
• Now scientists claim to have discovered that humans suffer the same indignity when we are economical with the truth.
  如今科学家声称，他们发现人类在说假话，不吐真言时也会蒙受同样的羞辱。
• The administrative practices of the Nixon Administration tended to inflict this sort of indignity on decent and able men, usually by accident, occasionally by design.
  尼克松政府里办公事的方式往往会使正派的和能干的人受到这种亏待。这一般是无意造成的，有时则是有意的。
• Prof Hawking, who has motor neurone disease, has argued that keeping someone alive against their own wishes is the ultimate indignity, saying he would think about it in the event he was suffering great pain.
  霍金患有运动神经元病，他认为如果别人不想活着，却非逼着别人活着，这是对他人最大的侮辱。他曾表示，如果他遭受了巨大的痛苦，那么他会考虑协助自杀。
• The gated villages are the latest indignity for China's migrant workers, who already face limited access to schooling and government services and are routinely blamed by city folk for rising crime.
  封锁村庄是对那些已经面对有限的入学机会和政府服务的、理所当然地因不断升高的犯罪率而被城市居民指责的外面务工人员的最新的一种歧视。
• Ignoring the shameful and indecent way in which some people in the accounting profession have been conducting themselves is an indignity that should no longer be tolerated.
  忽视一些从事会计职业的人一直以来不体面的、下流的做法是对我们的侮辱，这再也不应该继续容忍下去了。
• We wanted to avoid the indignity of having to ask you for
  我们也想避免那种有失尊严的事，不再伸手向你要
• Idle industries have cast workers into unemployment, human misery and personal indignity. People who are out of work cannot afford to scoff at any job.
  工厂停工使工人们失业，蒙受痛苦和失去个人尊严。失业的人就不能看不起任何工作。
• But now even the King of Chu is on his knees begging for mercy, can Peking opera survive this indignity?
  连楚霸王都跪下来求饶了，京戏能不亡吗？
• He recalled the indignity of being handcuffed and searched.
  他回忆起蒙受戴手铐及搜身的侮辱。