单词 | mortified |
释义 | mortifiedWord family adjectivemortificmortifiedmortifyingnounmortificationmortifierverbmortifyadverbmortifyingly mor·ti·fied /ˈmɔːtɪfaɪd $ ˈmɔːr-/ adjectiveadj extremely offended, ashamed, or embarrassed 失面子的;羞愧的;难堪的 mortified to hear/find etc ► see thesaurus at ashamed, embarrassed Nora was mortified to discover that her daughter had been out drinking. 诺拉发现女儿一直在外面喝酒,感到很没面子。 —mortification /ˌmɔːtɪfɪˈkeɪʃən $ ˌmɔːr-/ noun [uncountableU] Examples from the Corpus mortified• I was mortified and hurt, but that was Andy.• Carla felt mortified at the thought of having to repeat another year at school.• Deaver was mortified by his mistake and immediately admitted that he was wrong.• I was mortified to find that everyone else was wearing evening dress.• Mickey Mouse sniggers and Greta Garbo averts her pained gaze from our mortified writhings on the shallow fur of cinema seats.• Celia was mortified, yet, to her horror, she wanted to scream. |
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