This incident is deeply embarrassing for the government.
这一事件让政府非常难堪。
—embarrassinglyadverbadv
an embarrassingly poor performance
令人尴尬的糟糕演出
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embarrassing• They all stood around staring at her and smiling awkwardly, as if she was embarrassing.• This has become an annualembarrassingexercise.• It was so embarrassing - I couldn't remember his name!• They didn't seem prepared to say anything that might appear embarrassing or gauche later on.• The doctor asked me a lot of embarrassing questions about my sex life.• She asked a lot of embarrassing questions.• If discussingmixedmessages would be embarrassing, then publicly testing for the validity of these explanations would be even more so.• And they will continue to be exposed until they become too embarrassing to even mention.• The revelations about the President's university life were to prove deeply embarrassing to him.
embarrassing situation• How do you get out of such an embarrassing situation?• Look, we were in an embarrassing situation.• Reynolds felt gritty and smeared, at an unhappydisadvantage if he should have to lie his way out of an embarrassing situation.• What was your most embarrassing situation?• This is acceptable when only the family are around, but when we have guests, embarrassing situations can arise.• It was an embarrassing situation, more so for them than for us.• If this does happen the interviewer will have a rather embarrassing situation to overcome before going any further.• Otherwise she felt certain he'd dismiss the whole embarrassing situation with a carelesssneer.
VERBS | ADVERB | PREPOSITIONVERBS➤be, prove, sound令人困窘;證明令人難堪;聽起來令人尷尬▸➤become, get變得令人尷尬▸➤make sth使⋯令人困窘◇My mother's presence made the situation even more embarrassing.母親在場使局面更加令人尷尬。➤find sb/sth覺得⋯令人困窘◇I found the whole evening deeply embarrassing.我感覺整個晚上讓人極度尷尬。ADVERB➤extremely, fairly, very, etc.極其/相當/非常令人尷尬▸➤acutely, deeply, excruciatingly, highly, particularly, terribly, toe-curlingly (BrE) 特別令人難堪;非常令人羞愧;極其令人尷尬◇a deeply embarrassing moment非常令人尷尬的時刻➤increasingly越來越令人困窘▸➤almost幾乎令人困窘▸➤a little, slightly, etc.有點兒/略有些令人困窘▸➤potentially很可能令人困窘▸➤politically政治上令人尷尬PREPOSITION➤for對⋯來說是尷尬的◇It was acutely embarrassing for us all.這對我們所有人來說都極為尷尬。➤to令⋯處境尷尬◇This latest incident could be embarrassing to the government.最近的這次事故可能令政府難堪。