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词汇 guilt trip
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Definition of guilt trip in English:

guilt trip

noun
informal
  • An experience of feeling guilty about something, especially when such guilt is self-indulgent or unjustified.

    (尤指过度的、无根据的或自己无法控制的)负罪感(或内疚感);负罪感的体验;内疚感的体验

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Fighting retail policies is a bureaucratic struggle, and educating consumers about how harmful everyday plastic items are just gives people a guilt trip without getting them to change their behaviour.
    • Are they truly over their Christian guilt trip?
    • The British public has been sold on a huge guilt trip that public consumption is good and private consumption selfish and ‘bad’.
    • I knew that six weeks sounded longer than a month and half and that would give her a real guilt trip.
    • Scientists from the African diaspora aren't going to be hit over a head with a guilt trip but they can expect more offers of round-trip plane tickets and accommodation to pass on their knowledge back home at conferences and workshops.
    • Don't feel you have to accomplish everything at once - that will put you on a guilt trip and you'll end up worse off.
    • The ones from his mother were as he expected, a guilt trip and gossip fest that he just skimmed through quickly.
    • By this point the guilt trip was beginning to work.
    • Then when the explanation ended, the guilt trip began.
    • Being reminded you haven't gone to church for a decade and a half is usually the start of an impressive guilt trip.
    • But you are not helping by putting the guilt trip on them.
    • But when you're unavailable - say you're grounded or have to babysit your bro - she tries to put you on a guilt trip.
    • But it's a guilt trip that only works a few times.
    • So there is hope after all - the young Germans are getting over the collective guilt trip of their fathers and are not thinking they have to agree to every and any thing that has the words European Unity written all over it.
    • And when people get sick, they can't be on a guilt trip and say, oh my goodness, I should have prevented it.
    • I guess one of the wonders of technology is the capacity to lay a passive-aggressive guilt trip on me from 10,000 miles away.
    • The common reaction to peer pressure is the parental guilt trip.
    • Giving a new guy a major guilt trip will likely backfire.
    • The siblings can be resentful and then they go on an immense guilt trip.
verb
[with object]informal
  • Make (someone) feel guilty, especially in order to induce them to do something.

    (尤指为了诱导某人做某事而)让…感到内疚

    a pay increase will not guilt-trip them into improvements

    加薪不会使他们因歉疚而有所改进。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Danielle's innocence was used to guilt-trip people into going along with the commemorative events - even though some felt uncomfortable with them.
    • Sure, abortion should be rare - but it should be rare thanks to birth control and support for women and children, not because women guilt-trip themselves into continuing crisis pregnancies.
    • The middle classes may be guilt-tripped into doing it, but engaging the great unwashed in this exercise may prove impossible.
    • Now, both mothers and fathers find themselves irresolvably torn between the demands of work and family, distracted from fulfilling their potential in the public world while guilt-tripped out of the fulfilment of parenting.
    • They'll have to, if the rest of us are brave enough to make it clear that we're not buying what's pernicious or nonsensical in their claims and that we won't be intimidated or guilt-tripped into pretending otherwise.
    • We have promised to go round and help Horace with his furniture winnowing before B's mum comes back from holiday and guilt-trips him in to keeping everything.
    • Extrapolating from cases of extreme neglect only serves to guilt-trip parents into believing that if they should mess up - even temporarily - there will be no second chance, and their children will be on the fast track to failure.
    • They've been guilt-tripping me into sampling other coffees from locally-owned businesses, but nothing can match the taste of the coffee I've now grown to love.
    • Jon accuses them of guilt-tripping all married readers by explaining their views in this book.
    • Well, Patty kind of guilt-tripped them into it.
    • Act just as depressed as you were downstairs, and whatever you do, don't cave in when he guilt-trips you!
    • He also emailed me to thank me for the link (which guilt-tripped me into this post), so he's a nice guy too.
    • Still, don't let his extravagant gesture guilt-trip you.
    • His old man is an ageing slumlord who continuously guilt-trips his son into collecting overdue rent from tenants with whatever blunt object is available at the time.
    • The very fact that welfare reformers are reduced to bribing, cajoling and guilt-tripping people into marriage should tell us something.
    • She kind of guilt-tripped me into the visit the way only mothers can do so there's no way out.
    • Did her Mum guilt-trip her into wanting to have the baby once she did find out?
    • I'm not trying to guilt-trip anyone into anything.
    • Or I could yell at the woman and try to guilt-trip her into keeping her baby.
    • There is no point guilt-tripping the consumer.

Definition of guilt trip in US English:

guilt trip

noun
  • An experience of feeling guilty about something, especially when such guilt is excessive, self-indulgent, or unfounded.

    (尤指过度的、无根据的或自己无法控制的)负罪感(或内疚感);负罪感的体验;内疚感的体验

    let's skip the guilt trip and talk real, rational reasons
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The British public has been sold on a huge guilt trip that public consumption is good and private consumption selfish and ‘bad’.
    • But when you're unavailable - say you're grounded or have to babysit your bro - she tries to put you on a guilt trip.
    • And when people get sick, they can't be on a guilt trip and say, oh my goodness, I should have prevented it.
    • The common reaction to peer pressure is the parental guilt trip.
    • The siblings can be resentful and then they go on an immense guilt trip.
    • Don't feel you have to accomplish everything at once - that will put you on a guilt trip and you'll end up worse off.
    • I guess one of the wonders of technology is the capacity to lay a passive-aggressive guilt trip on me from 10,000 miles away.
    • So there is hope after all - the young Germans are getting over the collective guilt trip of their fathers and are not thinking they have to agree to every and any thing that has the words European Unity written all over it.
    • Are they truly over their Christian guilt trip?
    • Giving a new guy a major guilt trip will likely backfire.
    • By this point the guilt trip was beginning to work.
    • Fighting retail policies is a bureaucratic struggle, and educating consumers about how harmful everyday plastic items are just gives people a guilt trip without getting them to change their behaviour.
    • The ones from his mother were as he expected, a guilt trip and gossip fest that he just skimmed through quickly.
    • Then when the explanation ended, the guilt trip began.
    • Being reminded you haven't gone to church for a decade and a half is usually the start of an impressive guilt trip.
    • But you are not helping by putting the guilt trip on them.
    • I knew that six weeks sounded longer than a month and half and that would give her a real guilt trip.
    • Scientists from the African diaspora aren't going to be hit over a head with a guilt trip but they can expect more offers of round-trip plane tickets and accommodation to pass on their knowledge back home at conferences and workshops.
    • But it's a guilt trip that only works a few times.
verb
[with object]
  • Make (someone) feel guilty, especially in order to induce them to do something.

    (尤指为了诱导某人做某事而)让…感到内疚

    a pay increase will not guilt-trip them into improvements

    加薪不会使他们因歉疚而有所改进。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Danielle's innocence was used to guilt-trip people into going along with the commemorative events - even though some felt uncomfortable with them.
    • Act just as depressed as you were downstairs, and whatever you do, don't cave in when he guilt-trips you!
    • The very fact that welfare reformers are reduced to bribing, cajoling and guilt-tripping people into marriage should tell us something.
    • Sure, abortion should be rare - but it should be rare thanks to birth control and support for women and children, not because women guilt-trip themselves into continuing crisis pregnancies.
    • His old man is an ageing slumlord who continuously guilt-trips his son into collecting overdue rent from tenants with whatever blunt object is available at the time.
    • She kind of guilt-tripped me into the visit the way only mothers can do so there's no way out.
    • He also emailed me to thank me for the link (which guilt-tripped me into this post), so he's a nice guy too.
    • Did her Mum guilt-trip her into wanting to have the baby once she did find out?
    • Extrapolating from cases of extreme neglect only serves to guilt-trip parents into believing that if they should mess up - even temporarily - there will be no second chance, and their children will be on the fast track to failure.
    • Jon accuses them of guilt-tripping all married readers by explaining their views in this book.
    • There is no point guilt-tripping the consumer.
    • Now, both mothers and fathers find themselves irresolvably torn between the demands of work and family, distracted from fulfilling their potential in the public world while guilt-tripped out of the fulfilment of parenting.
    • I'm not trying to guilt-trip anyone into anything.
    • We have promised to go round and help Horace with his furniture winnowing before B's mum comes back from holiday and guilt-trips him in to keeping everything.
    • The middle classes may be guilt-tripped into doing it, but engaging the great unwashed in this exercise may prove impossible.
    • Still, don't let his extravagant gesture guilt-trip you.
    • Well, Patty kind of guilt-tripped them into it.
    • They've been guilt-tripping me into sampling other coffees from locally-owned businesses, but nothing can match the taste of the coffee I've now grown to love.
    • Or I could yell at the woman and try to guilt-trip her into keeping her baby.
    • They'll have to, if the rest of us are brave enough to make it clear that we're not buying what's pernicious or nonsensical in their claims and that we won't be intimidated or guilt-tripped into pretending otherwise.
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