喜樂美語

核心畫面

Think of it as falling out of other people's good opinion. Grace here means the favour and good standing people grant you; dis- takes it away. Picture someone who used to be welcome in the room — greeted, trusted, spoken well of — and then one act changes how everyone looks at them. Nothing about their body has changed; what has changed is the whole room's regard. Disgrace is that lost standing, seen from the outside.

「從別人的好眼光裡跌出來」。字裡的 grace 是別人給你的青睞與好評價，dis- 把它拿掉。想像一個人本來走進房間…更多收起「從別人的好眼光裡跌出來」。字裡的 grace 是別人給你的青睞與好評價，dis- 把它拿掉。想像一個人本來走進房間大家都會點頭招呼、願意信任他、背後也講他好話；然後一件事發生了，整個房間看他的眼神就變了。他這個人本身沒變，變的是所有人對他的看法。disgrace 就是那個失去的地位——注意，它一直是「從外面看」的：重點不是你心裡多難受，而是別人怎麼看你、還願不願意把你算進來。這也是它和 shame 最大的差別，shame 偏向你心裡的感覺，disgrace 偏向你在眾人眼中的位置。

Two branches

跌出好眼光的那個狀態（名詞）

這一族就是核心畫面本身：名詞的 disgrace，指人在眾人眼中失去地位之後所處的那個狀態。

shame, loss of respect · noun · B2

The loss of other people's respect and good opinion, because you have done something that they think is very bad or shocking. It is the state you are in afterwards, not the feeling inside you.

恥辱；名譽掃地

把人推出好眼光（動詞）

同一個畫面換成動作：不是描述跌下來之後的狀態，而是「造成那一跌」這個行為本身。

bring shame on (verb) · verb · C1

To behave so badly that other people lose their respect for you, or for your family, school, team, or country, and feel ashamed because of you.

使蒙羞；讓…丟臉

原始詞典資料5 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，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。

disgracenoun/dɪsˈɡɹeɪs/

  • 1

    The condition of being out of favor; loss of favor, regard, or respect.

    • I heare / Macduffe liues in diſgrace. Sir, can you tell / Where he beſtowes himſelfe?
  • 2

    The state of being dishonored, or covered with shame.

    • Now she lives in disgrace.
  • 3

    Someone or something which brings dishonor; the cause of reproach or shame; great discredit.

    • His behaviour at the party was a total disgrace! He was leeching on all the ladies, and insulting the men.
    • Practice and whipping were alike unavailing, and Epps, satisfied of it at last, swore I was a disgrace—that I was not fit to associate with a cotton-picking "nigger"—that I could not pick enough in a day to pay the trouble of weighing it, and that I should go into the cotton field no more.
  • 4

    obsoleteAn act of unkindness; a disfavor.

    • As for the pulling of them [ambitious men] downe, if the Affaires require it, and that it may not be done with ſafety ſuddainly, the onely Way is, the Enterchange, continually of Fauours, and Diſgraces, whereby they may not know, what to expect; And be, as it were, in a Wood.

disgraceverb/dɪsˈɡɹeɪs/

  • 1

    To put someone or something out of favor; to bring shame or ignominy upon.

    • […] some families renounced the use of a certain praenomen which had been disgraced by one of their name […]

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。