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/ɪmˈberəsɪŋ/ · /ɪmˈbærəsɪŋ/
Used about a thing, an event, or a question that makes someone feel ashamed, nervous, or uncomfortable, especially in front of other people.
令人尷尬的；很糗的
比較級 more embarrassing最高級 most embarrassing
核心畫面
Think of the moment you call your teacher "Mum" in front of the whole class: your face goes hot, you wish the floor would open. Embarrassing describes the thing that does that to you — the event, the question, the photo — not the feeling itself. The feeling is ; the cause is embarrassing.
可以想成你在全班面前不小心把老師叫成「媽」的那一秒：臉一下子燒起來，只想找個地洞鑽。embarrassing 形容的…更多收起
可以想成你在全班面前不小心把老師叫成「媽」的那一秒：臉一下子燒起來，只想找個地洞鑽。embarrassing 形容的是「造成那個瞬間的東西」——那件事、那個問題、那張照片，而不是你心裡的感覺。感覺的那一邊是 embarrassed（我覺得很糗），製造感覺的那一邊是 embarrassing（這件事很糗）；這兩個常被學習者互換，記住 -ing 指向外面的來源就不容易錯。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。
embarrassingnoun/ɪmˈbæɹ.ə.sɪŋ/
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The action of the verb to embarrass; embarrassment.
- May 11, 1715, Robert Wodrow, letter to Mrs Wodrow It seemed, at first, to be agreed, that the King should be addressed by the Assembly; but the time of presenting, because of the present embarrassings of affairs, to be left to the Commission.
embarrassingadj/ɪmˈbæɹ.ə.sɪŋ/
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Causing embarrassment; leading to a feeling of uncomfortable shame or self-consciousness.
- The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen. No one queried it. It was in the classic pattern of human weakness, mean and embarrassing and sad.
- In a famously embarrassing incident in 1996, America Online's errant dirty-word filter prevented residents of the British town Scunthorpe from signing up as new customers.
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。