Definition of embarrassment in English:

embarrassment

noun ɛmˈbarəsməntɪmˈbarəsməntəmˈbɛrəsmənt

mass noun

1A feeling of self-consciousness, shame, or awkwardness.
尴尬；窘；难堪
I turned red with embarrassment
我窘得涨红了脸。
Example sentencesExamples
- Feelings of expectation, embarrassment, distress and emotional harm vary according to the individual.
- As the addiction can be accompanied by feelings of shame and embarrassment, sufferers often find it difficult to seek help.
- The embarrassment and shame it brings on the family means people are keeping quiet and women are being cocooned in their homes.
- It evoked feelings of nostalgia, embarrassment and wonder at how I was thinking then.
- Boys, to Nina's shame and embarrassment, were a constant preoccupation.
- I felt a lot of shame, embarrassment and humiliation, I lived with all that for years.
- Today I have no pride, no faith, only embarrassment, anger, and frustration.
- He looks around and is consumed by acute embarrassment, even shame, at what he sees.
- I wondered how much of this self-conscious embarrassment was induced by a few days in the surroundings of Oxford.
- The actions of the fans were disrespectful, and they have brought shame and embarrassment on their club, and on this country.
- It will be profound, a mixture of embarrassment, shame and a huge feeling of emptiness.
- Horror, shock, embarrassment, confusion and sadness all swept across at the same time.
- A lot of women still feel embarrassment and shame about their own desires.
- Compulsions are obvious to an observer and can cause considerable shame and embarrassment.
- They boast of getting ‘wrecked’ at weekends as a matter of pride rather than shame or embarrassment.
- I put down my music, eyes pricking and throat closing up with anxiety, rage, confusion and embarrassment.
- This to me sounds like some gay people feel shame or embarrassment in having a partner of the same sex.
- Pauline said today she feared that embarrassment and shame could be stopping Christine and Nicholas from contacting her.
- This is a highly readable and strangely affecting comedy of embarrassment, resentment, grief and love.
- Along with embarrassment and guilt, shame is one of the emotions that motivate moral behaviour.
Synonyms
awkwardness, self-consciousness, unease, uneasiness, discomfort, discomfiture, edginess
shame, humiliation, mortification, ignominy
sheepishness, shyness, bashfulness
discomposure, flusteredness, perturbation, confusion, agitation, distress, chagrin
1. 1.1count noun A person or thing causing feelings of embarrassment.
  使人为难（或尴尬）的人（或事物）
  he was an embarrassment who was safely left ignored
  他总是让人感到难堪，所以人们都远远地避着他。
  her extreme views might be an embarrassment to the movement
  她的偏激观点可能使这场运动陷入尴尬境地。
  Example sentencesExamples
  On both the foreign policy and the fiscal fronts, the Bush administration is trying to rewrite history, to explain away its current embarrassments.
  Don't allow the planners to be carried away with pretentious, pie-in-the-sky ideas which will become the rubbish-strewn embarrassments of the future.
  Put together three unrelated embarrassments on a single day and all the good that has been achieved since 1997 is supposed to be overshadowed and forgotten.
  Clearly, the career people in the intel community are feeling emboldened by the White House's recent Iraq embarrassments.
  Adolescents who are depressed may be hypersensitive and overreact to minor problems or embarrassments.
  Over the years I have been sickened by the embarrassments that plagued his tenure and the reprehensible antagonism he suffered by Republican leaders.
  The current director resigned amid a series of scandalous embarrassments involving children that were supposed to be in Florida's care.
  Their fashion embarrassments involved medallions and leisure suits, ours were about greasy hair, Kodiaks and lumberjackets.
  Following several previous embarrassments, the city is expected to nix its deal with the company and resume parking responsibilities itself.
  Now, less prone to the pervasive embarrassments of adolescence, her emotional appreciation of the book is simply a memory.
  ‘Three embarrassments on top of one another seems too much,’ one source close to the Cabinet conceded last night.
  But the family story, with all its problems, embarrassments and dysfunctional members, still has its universal appeal, at home and abroad.
  Despite our loser basketball players, and a few other embarrassments, it's been difficult to quell the American spirit.
  Among other embarrassments: the firms were run by felons and hired felons to make the pro-law enforcement pitch.
  The theft follows other recent embarrassments to the department, specifically, allegations of cheating and irregularities in test scoring.
  I can only assume that the Republicans became so good at manufacturing these scandals and embarrassments that the press forgot how to do it for themselves.
  Well, certainly those would be embarrassments for the president.
  The continuing embarrassments culminated in the most public of Europe's failures, ‘safe havens’.
  After several years of headaches, embarrassments and controversies, the Nunavut department of education can report at least one piece of good news.
  Supporters of devolution have become inured to setbacks, diversions, embarrassments, disappointments and shocks.
2. 1.2 Financial difficulty.
  拮据，经济困难
  his temporary financial embarrassment
  他暂时的经济困难。
  Example sentencesExamples
  He cannot say he was unprepared for York council's financial embarrassment.
  Synonyms
  difficulty, predicament, plight, problem, mess, entanglement, imbroglio
  dilemma, quandary
  informal bind, jam, pickle, fix, scrape

Phrases

an embarrassment of riches (or choice)

More options or resources than one knows what to do with.
picking a highlight from such an embarrassment of riches is hard
there is an embarrassment of intellectual riches in the two anthologies
as consumers we have an embarrassment of choice
Example sentencesExamples
- Minor affluence is a far cry from what I'd call "an embarrassment of riches."
- What at first seems to be nothing more than a contractual obligation thing is actually an embarrassment of riches.
- Suddenly, the selectors who hardly knew where to turn earlier in the season have an embarrassment of riches.
- Given the generosity with which people describe themselves, such Web sites are an embarrassment of riches.
- This collection of gems puts him in that happy predicament the French call "an embarrassment of choices."
- He has come full bloom at the time Indian cricket has an embarrassment of riches.
- We've like I said, we have an embarrassment of riches.
- From being an embarrassment up front, they have an embarrassment of riches.
- Turning to his bibliography, a rigorous catalogue of debates in book and periodical, we face an embarrassment of choice.
- In short, what we have here is an astonishing wealth and stylistic range of soundscapes, quite literally an embarrassment of riches.

Definition of embarrassment in US English:

embarrassment

nounəmˈbɛrəsməntəmˈberəsmənt

1A feeling of self-consciousness, shame, or awkwardness.
尴尬；窘；难堪
I turned red with embarrassment
我窘得涨红了脸。
Example sentencesExamples
- This is a highly readable and strangely affecting comedy of embarrassment, resentment, grief and love.
- They boast of getting ‘wrecked’ at weekends as a matter of pride rather than shame or embarrassment.
- The embarrassment and shame it brings on the family means people are keeping quiet and women are being cocooned in their homes.
- Pauline said today she feared that embarrassment and shame could be stopping Christine and Nicholas from contacting her.
- He looks around and is consumed by acute embarrassment, even shame, at what he sees.
- A lot of women still feel embarrassment and shame about their own desires.
- Horror, shock, embarrassment, confusion and sadness all swept across at the same time.
- As the addiction can be accompanied by feelings of shame and embarrassment, sufferers often find it difficult to seek help.
- The actions of the fans were disrespectful, and they have brought shame and embarrassment on their club, and on this country.
- I felt a lot of shame, embarrassment and humiliation, I lived with all that for years.
- Boys, to Nina's shame and embarrassment, were a constant preoccupation.
- Today I have no pride, no faith, only embarrassment, anger, and frustration.
- Compulsions are obvious to an observer and can cause considerable shame and embarrassment.
- Feelings of expectation, embarrassment, distress and emotional harm vary according to the individual.
- It evoked feelings of nostalgia, embarrassment and wonder at how I was thinking then.
- I wondered how much of this self-conscious embarrassment was induced by a few days in the surroundings of Oxford.
- Along with embarrassment and guilt, shame is one of the emotions that motivate moral behaviour.
- It will be profound, a mixture of embarrassment, shame and a huge feeling of emptiness.
- I put down my music, eyes pricking and throat closing up with anxiety, rage, confusion and embarrassment.
- This to me sounds like some gay people feel shame or embarrassment in having a partner of the same sex.
Synonyms
awkwardness, self-consciousness, unease, uneasiness, discomfort, discomfiture, edginess
1. 1.1 A person or thing causing embarrassment.
  使人为难（或尴尬）的人（或事物）
  he was an embarrassment who was safely left ignored
  他总是让人感到难堪，所以人们都远远地避着他。
  her extreme views might be an embarrassment to the movement
  她的偏激观点可能使这场运动陷入尴尬境地。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Despite our loser basketball players, and a few other embarrassments, it's been difficult to quell the American spirit.
  Among other embarrassments: the firms were run by felons and hired felons to make the pro-law enforcement pitch.
  Well, certainly those would be embarrassments for the president.
  Adolescents who are depressed may be hypersensitive and overreact to minor problems or embarrassments.
  On both the foreign policy and the fiscal fronts, the Bush administration is trying to rewrite history, to explain away its current embarrassments.
  ‘Three embarrassments on top of one another seems too much,’ one source close to the Cabinet conceded last night.
  I can only assume that the Republicans became so good at manufacturing these scandals and embarrassments that the press forgot how to do it for themselves.
  Their fashion embarrassments involved medallions and leisure suits, ours were about greasy hair, Kodiaks and lumberjackets.
  Clearly, the career people in the intel community are feeling emboldened by the White House's recent Iraq embarrassments.
  But the family story, with all its problems, embarrassments and dysfunctional members, still has its universal appeal, at home and abroad.
  Put together three unrelated embarrassments on a single day and all the good that has been achieved since 1997 is supposed to be overshadowed and forgotten.
  The current director resigned amid a series of scandalous embarrassments involving children that were supposed to be in Florida's care.
  Over the years I have been sickened by the embarrassments that plagued his tenure and the reprehensible antagonism he suffered by Republican leaders.
  After several years of headaches, embarrassments and controversies, the Nunavut department of education can report at least one piece of good news.
  Following several previous embarrassments, the city is expected to nix its deal with the company and resume parking responsibilities itself.
  Now, less prone to the pervasive embarrassments of adolescence, her emotional appreciation of the book is simply a memory.
  Supporters of devolution have become inured to setbacks, diversions, embarrassments, disappointments and shocks.
  The theft follows other recent embarrassments to the department, specifically, allegations of cheating and irregularities in test scoring.
  The continuing embarrassments culminated in the most public of Europe's failures, ‘safe havens’.
  Don't allow the planners to be carried away with pretentious, pie-in-the-sky ideas which will become the rubbish-strewn embarrassments of the future.
2. 1.2 Financial difficulty.
  拮据，经济困难
  his temporary financial embarrassment
  他暂时的经济困难。
  Example sentencesExamples
  He cannot say he was unprepared for York council's financial embarrassment.
  Synonyms
  difficulty, predicament, plight, problem, mess, entanglement, imbroglio

Phrases

embarrassment of riches (or choice)

More options or resources than one knows what to do with.
picking a highlight from such an embarrassment of riches is hard
there is an embarrassment of intellectual riches in the two anthologies
as consumers we have an embarrassment of choice
Example sentencesExamples
- Suddenly, the selectors who hardly knew where to turn earlier in the season have an embarrassment of riches.
- From being an embarrassment up front, they have an embarrassment of riches.
- Given the generosity with which people describe themselves, such Web sites are an embarrassment of riches.
- Minor affluence is a far cry from what I'd call "an embarrassment of riches."
- This collection of gems puts him in that happy predicament the French call "an embarrassment of choices."
- We've like I said, we have an embarrassment of riches.
- In short, what we have here is an astonishing wealth and stylistic range of soundscapes, quite literally an embarrassment of riches.
- Turning to his bibliography, a rigorous catalogue of debates in book and periodical, we face an embarrassment of choice.
- What at first seems to be nothing more than a contractual obligation thing is actually an embarrassment of riches.
- He has come full bloom at the time Indian cricket has an embarrassment of riches.

词汇	embarrassment
释义	Definition of embarrassment in English: embarrassment noun ɛmˈbarəsməntɪmˈbarəsməntəmˈbɛrəsmənt mass noun 1A feeling of self-consciousness, shame, or awkwardness. 尴尬；窘；难堪 I turned red with embarrassment 我窘得涨红了脸。 Example sentencesExamples Feelings of expectation, embarrassment, distress and emotional harm vary according to the individual. As the addiction can be accompanied by feelings of shame and embarrassment, sufferers often find it difficult to seek help. The embarrassment and shame it brings on the family means people are keeping quiet and women are being cocooned in their homes. It evoked feelings of nostalgia, embarrassment and wonder at how I was thinking then. Boys, to Nina's shame and embarrassment, were a constant preoccupation. I felt a lot of shame, embarrassment and humiliation, I lived with all that for years. Today I have no pride, no faith, only embarrassment, anger, and frustration. He looks around and is consumed by acute embarrassment, even shame, at what he sees. I wondered how much of this self-conscious embarrassment was induced by a few days in the surroundings of Oxford. The actions of the fans were disrespectful, and they have brought shame and embarrassment on their club, and on this country. It will be profound, a mixture of embarrassment, shame and a huge feeling of emptiness. Horror, shock, embarrassment, confusion and sadness all swept across at the same time. A lot of women still feel embarrassment and shame about their own desires. Compulsions are obvious to an observer and can cause considerable shame and embarrassment. They boast of getting ‘wrecked’ at weekends as a matter of pride rather than shame or embarrassment. I put down my music, eyes pricking and throat closing up with anxiety, rage, confusion and embarrassment. This to me sounds like some gay people feel shame or embarrassment in having a partner of the same sex. Pauline said today she feared that embarrassment and shame could be stopping Christine and Nicholas from contacting her. This is a highly readable and strangely affecting comedy of embarrassment, resentment, grief and love. Along with embarrassment and guilt, shame is one of the emotions that motivate moral behaviour. Synonyms awkwardness, self-consciousness, unease, uneasiness, discomfort, discomfiture, edginess shame, humiliation, mortification, ignominy sheepishness, shyness, bashfulness discomposure, flusteredness, perturbation, confusion, agitation, distress, chagrin 1.1count noun A person or thing causing feelings of embarrassment. 使人为难（或尴尬）的人（或事物） he was an embarrassment who was safely left ignored 他总是让人感到难堪，所以人们都远远地避着他。 her extreme views might be an embarrassment to the movement 她的偏激观点可能使这场运动陷入尴尬境地。 Example sentencesExamples On both the foreign policy and the fiscal fronts, the Bush administration is trying to rewrite history, to explain away its current embarrassments. Don't allow the planners to be carried away with pretentious, pie-in-the-sky ideas which will become the rubbish-strewn embarrassments of the future. Put together three unrelated embarrassments on a single day and all the good that has been achieved since 1997 is supposed to be overshadowed and forgotten. Clearly, the career people in the intel community are feeling emboldened by the White House's recent Iraq embarrassments. Adolescents who are depressed may be hypersensitive and overreact to minor problems or embarrassments. Over the years I have been sickened by the embarrassments that plagued his tenure and the reprehensible antagonism he suffered by Republican leaders. The current director resigned amid a series of scandalous embarrassments involving children that were supposed to be in Florida's care. Their fashion embarrassments involved medallions and leisure suits, ours were about greasy hair, Kodiaks and lumberjackets. Following several previous embarrassments, the city is expected to nix its deal with the company and resume parking responsibilities itself. Now, less prone to the pervasive embarrassments of adolescence, her emotional appreciation of the book is simply a memory. ‘Three embarrassments on top of one another seems too much,’ one source close to the Cabinet conceded last night. But the family story, with all its problems, embarrassments and dysfunctional members, still has its universal appeal, at home and abroad. Despite our loser basketball players, and a few other embarrassments, it's been difficult to quell the American spirit. Among other embarrassments: the firms were run by felons and hired felons to make the pro-law enforcement pitch. The theft follows other recent embarrassments to the department, specifically, allegations of cheating and irregularities in test scoring. I can only assume that the Republicans became so good at manufacturing these scandals and embarrassments that the press forgot how to do it for themselves. Well, certainly those would be embarrassments for the president. The continuing embarrassments culminated in the most public of Europe's failures, ‘safe havens’. After several years of headaches, embarrassments and controversies, the Nunavut department of education can report at least one piece of good news. Supporters of devolution have become inured to setbacks, diversions, embarrassments, disappointments and shocks. 1.2 Financial difficulty. 拮据，经济困难 his temporary financial embarrassment 他暂时的经济困难。 Example sentencesExamples He cannot say he was unprepared for York council's financial embarrassment. Synonyms difficulty, predicament, plight, problem, mess, entanglement, imbroglio dilemma, quandary informal bind, jam, pickle, fix, scrape Phrases an embarrassment of riches (or choice) More options or resources than one knows what to do with. picking a highlight from such an embarrassment of riches is hard there is an embarrassment of intellectual riches in the two anthologies as consumers we have an embarrassment of choice Example sentencesExamples Minor affluence is a far cry from what I'd call "an embarrassment of riches." What at first seems to be nothing more than a contractual obligation thing is actually an embarrassment of riches. Suddenly, the selectors who hardly knew where to turn earlier in the season have an embarrassment of riches. Given the generosity with which people describe themselves, such Web sites are an embarrassment of riches. This collection of gems puts him in that happy predicament the French call "an embarrassment of choices." He has come full bloom at the time Indian cricket has an embarrassment of riches. We've like I said, we have an embarrassment of riches. From being an embarrassment up front, they have an embarrassment of riches. Turning to his bibliography, a rigorous catalogue of debates in book and periodical, we face an embarrassment of choice. In short, what we have here is an astonishing wealth and stylistic range of soundscapes, quite literally an embarrassment of riches. noun.1 phr. Definition of embarrassment in US English: embarrassment nounəmˈbɛrəsməntəmˈberəsmənt 1A feeling of self-consciousness, shame, or awkwardness. 尴尬；窘；难堪 I turned red with embarrassment 我窘得涨红了脸。 Example sentencesExamples This is a highly readable and strangely affecting comedy of embarrassment, resentment, grief and love. They boast of getting ‘wrecked’ at weekends as a matter of pride rather than shame or embarrassment. The embarrassment and shame it brings on the family means people are keeping quiet and women are being cocooned in their homes. Pauline said today she feared that embarrassment and shame could be stopping Christine and Nicholas from contacting her. He looks around and is consumed by acute embarrassment, even shame, at what he sees. A lot of women still feel embarrassment and shame about their own desires. Horror, shock, embarrassment, confusion and sadness all swept across at the same time. As the addiction can be accompanied by feelings of shame and embarrassment, sufferers often find it difficult to seek help. The actions of the fans were disrespectful, and they have brought shame and embarrassment on their club, and on this country. I felt a lot of shame, embarrassment and humiliation, I lived with all that for years. Boys, to Nina's shame and embarrassment, were a constant preoccupation. Today I have no pride, no faith, only embarrassment, anger, and frustration. Compulsions are obvious to an observer and can cause considerable shame and embarrassment. Feelings of expectation, embarrassment, distress and emotional harm vary according to the individual. It evoked feelings of nostalgia, embarrassment and wonder at how I was thinking then. I wondered how much of this self-conscious embarrassment was induced by a few days in the surroundings of Oxford. Along with embarrassment and guilt, shame is one of the emotions that motivate moral behaviour. It will be profound, a mixture of embarrassment, shame and a huge feeling of emptiness. I put down my music, eyes pricking and throat closing up with anxiety, rage, confusion and embarrassment. This to me sounds like some gay people feel shame or embarrassment in having a partner of the same sex. Synonyms awkwardness, self-consciousness, unease, uneasiness, discomfort, discomfiture, edginess 1.1 A person or thing causing embarrassment. 使人为难（或尴尬）的人（或事物） he was an embarrassment who was safely left ignored 他总是让人感到难堪，所以人们都远远地避着他。 her extreme views might be an embarrassment to the movement 她的偏激观点可能使这场运动陷入尴尬境地。 Example sentencesExamples Despite our loser basketball players, and a few other embarrassments, it's been difficult to quell the American spirit. Among other embarrassments: the firms were run by felons and hired felons to make the pro-law enforcement pitch. Well, certainly those would be embarrassments for the president. Adolescents who are depressed may be hypersensitive and overreact to minor problems or embarrassments. On both the foreign policy and the fiscal fronts, the Bush administration is trying to rewrite history, to explain away its current embarrassments. ‘Three embarrassments on top of one another seems too much,’ one source close to the Cabinet conceded last night. I can only assume that the Republicans became so good at manufacturing these scandals and embarrassments that the press forgot how to do it for themselves. Their fashion embarrassments involved medallions and leisure suits, ours were about greasy hair, Kodiaks and lumberjackets. Clearly, the career people in the intel community are feeling emboldened by the White House's recent Iraq embarrassments. But the family story, with all its problems, embarrassments and dysfunctional members, still has its universal appeal, at home and abroad. Put together three unrelated embarrassments on a single day and all the good that has been achieved since 1997 is supposed to be overshadowed and forgotten. The current director resigned amid a series of scandalous embarrassments involving children that were supposed to be in Florida's care. Over the years I have been sickened by the embarrassments that plagued his tenure and the reprehensible antagonism he suffered by Republican leaders. After several years of headaches, embarrassments and controversies, the Nunavut department of education can report at least one piece of good news. Following several previous embarrassments, the city is expected to nix its deal with the company and resume parking responsibilities itself. Now, less prone to the pervasive embarrassments of adolescence, her emotional appreciation of the book is simply a memory. Supporters of devolution have become inured to setbacks, diversions, embarrassments, disappointments and shocks. The theft follows other recent embarrassments to the department, specifically, allegations of cheating and irregularities in test scoring. The continuing embarrassments culminated in the most public of Europe's failures, ‘safe havens’. Don't allow the planners to be carried away with pretentious, pie-in-the-sky ideas which will become the rubbish-strewn embarrassments of the future. 1.2 Financial difficulty. 拮据，经济困难 his temporary financial embarrassment 他暂时的经济困难。 Example sentencesExamples He cannot say he was unprepared for York council's financial embarrassment. Synonyms difficulty, predicament, plight, problem, mess, entanglement, imbroglio Phrases embarrassment of riches (or choice) More options or resources than one knows what to do with. picking a highlight from such an embarrassment of riches is hard there is an embarrassment of intellectual riches in the two anthologies as consumers we have an embarrassment of choice Example sentencesExamples Suddenly, the selectors who hardly knew where to turn earlier in the season have an embarrassment of riches. From being an embarrassment up front, they have an embarrassment of riches. Given the generosity with which people describe themselves, such Web sites are an embarrassment of riches. Minor affluence is a far cry from what I'd call "an embarrassment of riches." This collection of gems puts him in that happy predicament the French call "an embarrassment of choices." We've like I said, we have an embarrassment of riches. In short, what we have here is an astonishing wealth and stylistic range of soundscapes, quite literally an embarrassment of riches. Turning to his bibliography, a rigorous catalogue of debates in book and periodical, we face an embarrassment of choice. What at first seems to be nothing more than a contractual obligation thing is actually an embarrassment of riches. He has come full bloom at the time Indian cricket has an embarrassment of riches. noun.1 phr.
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