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Opprobrium is a very formal word for strong public criticism, the kind that brings shame. If a person or a company “attracts opprobrium,” many people are saying out loud that what they did is disgraceful. It is not a quiet from one teacher; it is a storm of blame. You will meet it in newspapers and serious essays much more than in the corridor. In ordinary talk we say shame, blame, or “everyone is angry with them.” Keep this one for writing, and only when the anger is public and heavy.
罵名、公開譴責（極正式）
組成Learned borrowing from Latin opprobrium, obprobrium (“reproach, disgrace, scandal”), from opprobrō / obprobrō (“to reproach, to taunt”) + -ium. Those verbs are from ob- (“towards”) + probrum (“disgrace, insult”). The plural opprobria is also from Latin.
同家族的字
- opprobriousthe adjective: full of this kind of public scorn
原始詞典資料4 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。
opprobriumnoun/əˈpɹəʊ.bɹɪ.əm/
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archaicA cause, object, or situation of disgrace or shame.
- As there are certain malignant diseases which have been denominated the opprobria of medicine, so there are particular maladies of our social condition, which may be considered the opprobria of legislation. Amongst the most inveterate of these are the poor laws.
- It was not that he was in danger of legal punishment or of beggary: he was in danger only of seeing disclosed to the judgment of his neighbours and the mournful perception of his wife certain facts of his past life which would render him an object of scorn and an opprobrium of the religion with which he had diligently associated himself.
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Disgrace or bad reputation arising from exceedingly shameful behaviour; ignominy.
- Let me add that it is the great deſideratum, by which alone this form of government can be reſcued from the opprobrium under which it has ſo long labored, and be recommended to the eſteem and adoption of mankind.
- I am content to suffer alone, while my sufferings shall endure: when I die, I am well satisfied that abhorrence and opprobrium should load my memory.
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Scornful contempt or reproach; (countable) an instance of this.
- […]from that strict rectitude in which I have been accustomed to walk and to view my actions, and which, notwithstanding the unjust opprobrium cast upon me, I find to be an invincible support and shield.
- Some Johnny with brains produces a hypothesis. Everybody calls him a rotter at first. But he remains calm in the face of opprobrium.
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archaicBehaviour which is disgraceful or shameful.
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。