- 1見怪、生氣、覺得被冒犯（take umbrage at＝為某事動怒、心生不滿）。常帶「小題大作」的意味，語氣比中文的「生氣」正式、書面。
Umbrage means the feeling of being offended — hurt and because you think someone has insulted you or not shown you respect. But the word almost never travels alone. In real English it lives inside one fixed phrase: to take umbrage at something. You take umbrage at a remark, at being left off a list, at not being asked. You can also "give umbrage" to someone, but that is rare and old-fashioned. Two things make this word special, and both matter. First, it is formal and slightly old — you meet it in newspapers, novels and reports, not in a conversation with friends. Nobody says "I took umbrage" to a ; they say "I was " or "that upset me". Second, and this is the part dictionaries often hide: the phrase usually carries a small hint that the person is being . If I write "the minister took umbrage at the question", I am gently suggesting the minister got offended over something small, and perhaps should not have. It is not always negative, but that flavour is there often enough that you should hear it. Because of this, writers use it when they want to describe someone's offence at a slight distance, with a raised , rather than share it. The feeling itself is about dignity — being looked down on — more than about being hurt or sad.
組成From Old French ombrage, from Latin umbrāticus "in the shade", from umbra "shadow". The picture behind it: when you are offended, a shadow falls over you — the same idea English keeps in "he was under a cloud" or in Chinese 「臉色一沉」.
原始詞典資料6 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。
umbragenoun/ˈʌm.bɹɪd͡ʒ/
- 1
A feeling of anger or annoyance caused by something offensive.
- Antipathy in one nation against another disposes each more readily to offer insult and injury, to lay hold of slight causes of umbrage, and to be haughty and intractable when accidental or trifling occasions of dispute occur.
- —He took umbrage at something or other, that muchinjured but on the whole eventempered person declared, I let slip.
- 2
A feeling of doubt.
- 3
Leaves that provide shade, as the foliage of trees.
- It was a relief to change the cheerful meadow for the dark umbrage of the forest which they now entered.
- The handsome dark-eyed boy is Master George Talboys, who declines musa at Eton, and fishes for tadpoles in the clear water under the spreading umbrage beyond the ivied walls of the academy.
- 4
obsoleteShadow; shade.
- […] but in the verity of extolment I take him to be a soul of great article and his infusion of such dearth and rareness as, to make true diction of him, his semblable in his mirror, and who else would trace him, his umbrage, nothing more.
umbrageverb/ˈʌm.bɹɪd͡ʒ/
- 1
To displease or cause offense.
- 2
To shade.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。