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shameful
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🇺🇸 /ʃˈeɪmfʌl/
形容某件事或某种行为可耻、丢脸,或冒犯他人、令人感到不快。
💡 记忆钩子
想象一件事被钉在公开的耻辱柱上:它先是让人觉得丢脸、应受谴责,进一步也可以表示这种行为冒犯了旁人、让人难以接受。
📝 学习建议
- 先把 shameful 记作“可耻的、令人不齿的”,不要误解成“感到羞愧的”;后者通常形容人的感受。
📖 中文释义
adj
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core 可耻的;丢脸的📖 指某件事或某种行为严重违背应有的体面或道德,足以让相关的人蒙羞,或值得受到谴责。它就像把这件事钉在公开的耻辱柱上。💡 常用“shameful + 行为、待遇、表现”等名词,也常说“It is shameful to...”来直接评价一件事。语气通常强烈而正式,表示真正的丢脸或不齿,不只是“有点不好意思”。不要把它当作描述人的感受;说人感到羞愧时通常不用这个形容词。It was shameful to leave the elderly man without help.把那位老人丢在一边不管,实在是可耻。
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common 令人反感的;冒犯人的📖 指言语或行为让别人感到被冒犯、难以接受;这里重点不一定是丢脸,而是它伤害了他人的感受或尊严。💡 常见结构是“shameful + 言论、玩笑、评论”等,后面也可接表示受影响对象的表达。它比一般的“不礼貌”或“不得体”更严厉,常暗含说话者的强烈不满。不要仅因为某句话令人意外就使用它,通常要有明显的冒犯性或令人不齿之处。Those shameful jokes offended everyone at the table.那些令人反感的玩笑冒犯了桌边的每一个人。
more shameful
comparative
most shameful
superlative
📘 英文释义 (WordNet)
共 2 组
(used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame; - Rachel Carson; ; ;
同义词集:
black
disgraceful
ignominious
inglorious
opprobrious
shameful
Man...has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands
an ignominious retreat
inglorious defeat
an opprobrious monument to human greed
a shameful display of cowardice
giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation; ; - Thackeray
同义词集:
disgraceful
scandalous
shameful
shocking
scandalous behavior
the wicked rascally shameful conduct of the bankrupt
the most shocking book of its time
近似: immoral
🌳 词源
源自古英语,字面上相当于“羞耻 + 充满……的”,后来形成“可耻的”之意。
Proto-Germanic *skamō
Proto-West Germanic *skamu
Old English sċamu
Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós
Proto-Germanic *fullaz
Proto-Germanic *-fullaz
Old English -ful
Old English sċeomfull
Middle English schameful
English shameful
From Middle English schameful, schamfull, from Old English *sċeamfull, sċeomfull, equivalent to shame + -ful. Cognate with Danish skamfuld (“shameful, shamefast, ashamed”).
🔄 变式
more shameful
compar
most shameful
superl
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