- 1難堪的、有把柄的（常指照片或處境會讓人難看）
If a photo, a letter, or a moment is compromising, it shows — or looks as if it shows — that you did something wrong, or something you would be ashamed to have other people see. News stories talk about compromising photographs, or about catching someone in a compromising position: a scene that could hurt their name. The word feels a bit formal, like a newspaper. Though actually, compromising is also just the -ing form of compromise, 'to meet in the middle and both give something up,' and that is a different meaning. Students often mix the two. Here we mean the 'this could get you in trouble or make you look bad' sense. People stretch it: the thing need not be a crime; being silly or private can be enough.
From the word’s history
Inflection of compromise, from Latin compromissum, originally a mutual promise to accept arbitration.
compromise 加 -ing；源自拉丁文「相互承諾」一字。
組成來自 compromise。那個詞有兩層：一層是「各讓一步」，另一層是「危及名譽、留下把柄」。這裡用的是第二層，再加上 -ing。
同家族的字
- compromisethe noun/verb this adjective is built from
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。
compromisingadj
- 1
Willing or able to make a compromise.
- 2
That compromises somebody or something, especially someone's reputation; socially damaging.
- 3
That compromises somebody or something, especially someone's reputation; socially damaging.
- A compromising photograph of the president was sold to the newspapers.
compromisingnoun
- 1
The act by which something is compromised.
- There hath been much of treason, And much of violence and shame, To the old worship of that spring-life season; And compromisings of a sacred claim!
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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