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TOEFL IELTS BNC: 3816 COCA: 3052

scandal

Word family 
scan·dal /ˈskændl/ ●●○ noun  
1  [countableC]RUMOUR/RUMOR an event in which someone, especially someone important, behaves in a bad way that shocks people 〔尤指牵涉重要人物的〕丑闻，丑事
 It caused quite a scandal when he left his wife.
他离开妻子成了一大丑闻。
 The college has recently been involved in a drugs scandal.
这所大学最近卷入了毒品丑闻。
 He has been at the centre of a political scandal.
他成了一桩政治丑闻的焦点。
 a major scandal involving the government
涉及政府的一桩重大丑闻
 a series of financial scandals
一连串金融丑闻
 a sex scandal that ruined his reputation
让他名誉扫地的性丑闻
 They had already left the country when the scandal broke.
丑闻爆出时他们已经离开了这个国家。
2  [uncountableU] talk about dishonest or immoral things that famous or important people are believed to have done 关于丑闻的言谈
 The magazine is full of gossip and scandal.
这本杂志登载的全是八卦内容。
3  be 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.
n COLLOCATIONS
verbs
cause a scandal
The vicar caused a scandal by having an affair with a young woman.
be involved in a scandal
A senior government official is involved in a political scandal.
be implicated in a scandal (=be suspected of being involved)
One of the ministers implicated in the scandal resigned.
be at the centre of a scandal British EnglishBrE, be at the center of a scandal American EnglishAmE
The banker at the centre of the scandal has disappeared.
uncover/expose a scandal
The scandal was uncovered by a journalist.
a scandal breaks (=becomes known)
When the scandal broke in 1990, it forced the resignation of the bank's chairman.
a scandal erupts (=becomes known with serious effects)
A major scandal erupted in Washington last year.
the scandal surrounding something
They had tried to protect the prime minster from the scandal surrounding the arms sales.
ADJECTIVES/NOUN + scandal
a big/major scandal
The president was forced to resign following a major scandal.
a financial scandal (=involving money)
He was suspected of involvement in a major financial scandal.
a political scandal (=involving politicians)
The Health Secretary now finds himself at the centre of a political scandal.
a corruption scandal (=involving illegal payments)
a major police corruption scandal
a sex scandal
There are rumours of a sex scandal involving senior government ministers.
a public scandal (=one that people know about and discuss)
The award was soon the centre of a public scandal.
the Watergate/Whitewater etc scandal (=the scandal involving a particular place, organization etc)
The name of Richard Nixon will forever be associated with the Watergate scandal.
the worst scandal (=the biggest or most shocking)
Total losses resulting from India's worst financial scandal amounted to Rs31,000 million.
phrases
a hint/whiff of scandal (=the suggestion that someone may be involved in a scandal)
He vowed that no hint of scandal would ever be attached to him.
Examples from the Corpus
scandal• The newspapers only seem interested in gossip and scandal.• What I did not anticipate was that this would prove to be a matter as much of intrigue and scandal as of science.• The administration has been plagued by scandal and controversy.• There were a number of corporate scandals, mostly involving illegal political funding.• Another well-documented scandal has been the sale of unsuitable or dangerous medicines in the Third World.• a financial scandal• The funding scandal now looks set to run and run.• Have you heard the latest scandal? Mick Green's been arrested for bribery and corruption.• A major scandal erupted in November 1989, with the discovery that cattle in the UK and Netherlands had been given food contaminated with lead.• He vowed that no hint of scandal would ever be attached to him.• And she will do anything to avoid another royal scandal - even if it means not seeing Charles while speculation persists.• a sex scandal involving senior politicians• But he was a bit of a womaniser and got mixed up in some scandal.• the worst spy scandal in US history• He resigned a few days after the scandal broke.• The scandal over the deal forced the corporation's president to resign in disgrace.
scandal broke• In the last days of 1990 a new scandal broke.• For some days after the scandal broke, the press could find out nothing about him.• Jameson lost his job and split up with his wife after the scandal broke.• He was summarily dismissed from his job and the scandal broke on the front pages of Britain's national press.• Casey died of a brain tumor before the scandal broke.• Ever since the scandal broke, the hunt has been on for scapegoats.
Origin scandal
(1100-1200) Late Latin scandalum “offense”, from Greek skandalon
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TOEFL IELTS BNC: 3816 COCA: 3052
scandal

noun

ADJECTIVE | ... OF SCANDALS | VERB + SCANDAL | SCANDAL + VERB | SCANDAL + NOUN | PREPOSITION | PHRASES ADJECTIVE➤big, great, major大醜聞；重大醜聞➤current, recent當前的／近期的醜聞▸➤national, public全國皆知的／眾所周知的醜聞▸➤abuse, accounting, bribery, corporate, corruption, doping, drug, drugs, financial, political, sex, sexual虐待醜聞；會計造假；賄賂醜聞；公司醜聞；腐敗醜聞；興奮劑醜聞；毒品醜聞；金融醜聞；政治醜聞；性醜聞◇a sex-abuse scandal性虐待醜聞◇the prisoner-abuse scandal虐囚醜聞➤real真正的可恥行為◇The real scandal is that nothing has been done to make sure it doesn't happen again.真正可恨的是，沒有採取任何措施確保此類事件不再發生。... OF SCANDALS➤series, spate, wave一連串的／接二連三的／一波接一波的醜聞◇The government was rocked by a series of scandals.政府因一連串醜聞受到震動。VERB + SCANDAL➤cause, create導致／引起醜聞➤avoid, prevent避免／防止醜聞➤investigate調查醜聞▸➤expose, reveal, uncover使醜聞曝光；透露醜聞；揭露醜聞▸➤cover up, hush up掩蓋／遮掩醜聞▸➤be embroiled in, be implicated in, be involved in捲入醜聞；被牽連進醜聞◇There have been calls for the resignation of the official involved in the sex scandal.有呼聲要求捲入性醜聞的官員辭職。SCANDAL + VERB➤be brewing, break, develop, erupt, unfold醜聞醞釀／曝光／顯露／爆出／披露◇The scandal broke on the front pages of all the papers the next day.第二天所有報紙的頭版都披露了這一醜聞。➤rock sth醜聞撼動⋯▸➤involve sb/sth將⋯捲入醜聞▸➤engulf sb/sth, surround sb/sth醜聞吞沒⋯／包圍⋯◇financial scandals surrounding the government困擾政府的金融醜聞SCANDAL + NOUN➤sheet (= a newspaper that publishes stories intended to shock the public) 刊登醜聞的小報PREPOSITION➤in a/the scandal在醜聞中◇He was imprisoned for his part in the bribery scandal.他因牽涉賄賂醜聞而入獄。➤scandal over對⋯的反感◇the scandals over corruption in public life公務腐敗引起的憤慨PHRASES➤the centre/center of a scandal醜聞的中心◇The apartment was paid for by the bank at the centre / center of the scandal.這套公寓是由身處醜聞中心的那家銀行付款購買的。➤a hint of scandal, a suggestion of scandal醜聞的跡象◇Until the story was published there had been no hint of scandal.這宗醜聞在公開報道之前沒有露出半點兒跡象。➤in the wake of a scandal醜聞曝光後◇In the wake of recent accounting scandals, new cases have come to light.繼最近幾宗會計醜聞之後，又有新案件曝光。
TOEFL IELTS BNC: 3816 COCA: 3052
scandal noun
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TOEFL IELTS BNC: 3816 COCA: 3052
scandal
Surprises and shocking events: surprise, shock, blow...
The news: breaking news, capture the headlines, communiqué...

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