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Picture the moment your face goes hot because other people are looking: you said the wrong name, you tripped on the , you have to sing in front of the class. Nothing is actually damaged — what you feel is that other people can see you, and you would rather they couldn't. That is embarrassed: a small, social kind of discomfort, tied to being watched.
可以想成那個臉突然發熱的瞬間：你叫錯了人的名字、在樓梯上絆了一下、被叫到全班面前唱歌。其實沒有真的出什麼事，你難受的…更多收起
可以想成那個臉突然發熱的瞬間：你叫錯了人的名字、在樓梯上絆了一下、被叫到全班面前唱歌。其實沒有真的出什麼事，你難受的是「別人正在看我」這件事——你會希望地上有個洞。embarrassed 抓的就是這種很社交性的不自在：不是傷心，也不是害怕，而是在別人眼光下想縮起來。中文的「尷尬、不好意思」很接近。原始詞典資料3 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。
embarrassedadj/ɪmˈbæɹ.əst/
- 1
Having a feeling of shameful discomfort.
- After returning from the pool, Aleshia felt significantly better, though she was still slightly embarrassed.
- SIMONE: And I said, "Well, Michaela is here at the guest house and she doesn't have her things and she had to run home from West Tisbury and someone thought she was homeless and she's hurt and embarrassed and I think it would be very gentlemanly of one of you to come over here and talk to her," and he said, "It's you I want to talk to, and I'll be over after we finish up."
- 2
archaicImpeded; obstructed; in an awkward situation.
- […] they could let their eyes hover tenderly on the far-off white cliffs that so often had signalled to the embarrassed English a promise of safety.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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。