| 单词 | be a scandal |
| 释义 | be a scandalbe a scandal British EnglishBrE spokenSHOCK to be very shocking or unacceptable 令人震惊；不能接受 The price of petrol these days is an absolute scandal! 近日的汽油价格高得简直让人不能接受！ Examples from the Corpus be a scandal• A free for all was a scandal.• Employment training in Britain is a scandal and is often run by Government-appointed has-beens from industry accountable to no-one.• For the first Christians to claim this as the heart of their faith was a scandal of the first order.• The marriage was a scandal in Seoul.• A bug for efficiency, he felt that the waste of money and effort on doomed irrigation ventures was a scandal.• I mean the wages are a scandal, aren't they?• Like the poll tax, the consequences will be a scandal.• The Shadow Agriculture Minister says privatisation would be a scandal and could threaten jobs in the timber industry. → be a scandal at scandal(1) |
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