abash是什么意思

双语例句

(1)The entire metropolitan centre possessed a high and mighty air calculated to overawe and abash the common applicant, and to make the gulf between poverty and success seem both wide and deep.

整个都市中心显出一种财大气粗，高不可攀的气势，为的是让那些普通的求职者望而生畏，不敢问津，也为的是让贫富之间的鸿沟显得又宽又深。

(2)That could abash the little bird.

能使小巧的鸟儿备受伤害.

(3)And sore must be the storm That could abash the little bird That kept so many warm.

只有在来势凶猛的暴风雨中，小小的鸟儿才颤栗惊慌；风暴里曲儿最动听悠扬，温暖过多少人的心房。

(4)When the child see all the room fille with stranger, he is much abash .

中文翻译：那小孩一看到满屋子都是陌生人， 感到非常局促不安。

同义词

vt. 使困窘；使羞愧；使局促不安

同根词

词根 abash

(1)abashed adj. 不安的；窘迫的；尴尬的

(2)abashment n. 羞愧；害臊

释义

v.

cause to feel embarrassed, disconcerted, or ashamed

使尴尬，使局促不安，使惭愧

Harriet looked slightly abashed.

哈丽特看上去有些局促不安。

词源

"Middle English： from Anglo-Norman French abaiss-; compare with Old French esbaiss-, lengthened stem of esbair, from es- ‘utterly ' + bair ‘astound ’."