mortification
英 [ˌmɔːtɪfɪˈkeɪʃn]
美 [ˌmɔːrtɪfɪˈkeɪʃn]
n. 屈辱感;窘迫感
BNC.33402 / COCA.28228
柯林斯词典
- N-UNCOUNT 屈辱感;窘迫感
Mortificationis a strong feeling of shame and embarrassment.- The chairman tried to disguise his mortification.
主席试图掩饰自己的窘迫。
- The chairman tried to disguise his mortification.
英英释义
noun
- (Christianity) the act of mortifying the lusts of the flesh by self-denial and privation (especially by bodily pain or discomfort inflicted on yourself)
- an instance in which you are caused to lose your prestige or self-respect
- he had to undergo one humiliation after another
- strong feelings of embarrassment
- the localized death of living cells (as from infection or the interruption of blood supply)
双语例句
- Elizabeth did all she could to shield him from the frequent notice of either, and was ever anxious to keep him to herself, and to those of her family with whom he might converse without mortification;
伊丽莎白为了不让达西受到这些人的纠缠,便竭力使他跟她自己谈话,跟她家里那些不会使他受罪的人谈话。 - But there is in my nature a strain of asceticism, and I have subjected my flesh each week to a more severe mortification.
但是我这个人生来还有苦行主义的性格,我还一直叫我的肉体每个星期经受一次更大的磨难。 - I don't really want to spend the weekend working, but as they say, a little mortification of the flesh is good for the soul.
我真的不想在周末工作,不过正如他们说的,一点肉体的苦行对灵魂有好处。 - But before he had uttered the words, Prince Andrey, feeling the tears of shame and mortification rising in his throat, was jumping off his horse and running to the flag.
可是,当他还没有说完这句话,安德烈公爵就感觉到羞愧和愤怒的眼泪涌进了他的喉头,于是他翻身下马,向军旗面前走去。 - Davie was hiding his head in his hands with mortification.
戴维羞愧难当地双手抱着脑袋。 - Hareton's chest heaved in silence a minute: he laboured under a severe sense of mortification and wrath, which it was no easy task to suppress.
哈里顿的胸膛默默地起伏了一下:他是在一种严重的屈辱与愤怒的感觉下苦斗,要压制下去是不容易的事。 - But to his mortification no one paid the least attention to what he was saying.
但是扫兴得很,谁也不去听他了。 - Again his astonishment was obvious; and he looked at her with an expression of mingled incredulity and mortification.
他又显出很惊讶的样子,他带着痛苦和诧异的神气望着她。 - Myrrh has been associated with bitter repentance, mortification of the flesh, and penance.
没药与痛苦的悔改,苦修,忏悔联合。 - The Chinese modern literature before the new period became break the ranks cause the mortification literature policy and yarnsmith's sequacious craze.
新时期以前的中国当代文学,在禁欲文化政策与作家狂热盲从的双重夹击下,成了世界文学的掉队者。