stig·ma
noun/ˈstɪɡmə/
/ˈstɪɡmə/
- [uncountable, countable, usually singular] negative feelings that people have about particular circumstances or characteristics that somebody may have
耻辱；羞耻 - the social stigma of alcoholism
酗酒在社会上的恶名 - There is no longer any stigma attached to being divorced.
离婚不再是什么丢脸的事。
Extra Examples- He still suffered the stigma of having been rejected for the army.
他仍然蒙受着参军遭拒之辱。 - She had to overcome the stigma attached to older workers.
她必须克服对年长工人的耻辱。 - There should not be a stigma around asking for help with your mental health.
寻求心理健康方面的帮助不应该被视为耻辱。 - There is no stigma to being made redundant.
被当作冗员裁掉没有什么可耻的。 - There is no stigma to losing your job.
失去工作不是什么丢脸的事。 - He feels there is still a lot of stigma attached to being single.
他觉得单身仍然存在很多耻辱。 - Wider knowledge of the disease removed some of the stigma from it.
对这种疾病更多的了解减少了一些耻辱感。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- social
- bear
- carry
- suffer
- …
- be associated with something
- be attached to something
- surround
- …
- stigma to
- the social stigma of alcoholism
- [countable] (biology) the part in the middle of a flower where pollen is received
enlarge image（花的）柱头
Word Originlate 16th cent. (denoting a mark made by pricking or branding): via Latin from Greek stigma ‘a mark made by a pointed instrument, a dot’; related to the noun stick.