1ashamed 羞愧的GUILTY/FEEL GUILTY feeling very ashamed and sad because you know that you have done something wrong 羞愧的,内疚的
guilty about/for/at
I feel really guilty about forgetting her birthday again.
我又忘記了她的生日,心裏非常内疚。
She looked self-conscious and guilty.
她看上去很不自然,很内疚的樣子。
It was his guilty conscience that made him offer to help.
他是因爲良心上過意不去才提出幫忙的。
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In everyday English, people often say that they feel bad about something rather than say that they feel guilty about it: 在日常英語中,人們常說feel bad about something,而不說feel guilty about something
I feel bad about leaving him on his own.
讓他獨自一人留下我感到内疚。
2of a crime 犯罪的GUILTY having done something that is a crime 犯了罪的,有罪的OPP innocent
You feel guilty about/for/at something you have done:
She felt guilty about what had happened.
I feel guilty for not doing more to help.
Someone is guilty of a crime or doing something wrong:
They were guilty of murder.
The government is guilty of mismanaging the economy.
THESAURUS – Meaning 2: having done something that is a crime 犯了罪的,有罪的
guilty if someone is guilty of a crime or doing something wrong, they did it, and they should be punished for it 犯罪的,有罪的
She was found guilty of murder.
她被裁定犯有謀殺罪。
He was guilty of serious misconduct.
他犯有嚴重失職罪。
nThe two guilty men were ordered to pay damages to their victims.
responsible [not before noun] used when saying who should be blamed for something bad that has happened 〔對壞事〕負有責任的,應承擔責任的
Police believe a local gang is responsible for the burglaries.
警方認爲這幾起入室盜竊案是當地一個團夥所爲。
As manager, he is ultimately responsible for the failure of the project.
身爲經理,他應當對項目的失敗承擔最終責任。
nThe other driver was responsible for the accident.
be to blame if someone is to blame for a bad situation, they are responsible 負有責任
The government is partly to blame for the crisis.
政府對這場危機負有部分責任。
nIf anything goes wrong, it’s never him that is to blame.
culpable /ˈkʌlpəbəl/ formal responsible for something bad or illegal, so that you deserve to be blamed or punished 有罪的,應受處罰的
The people who helped the terrorists are equally culpable for what happened on July 7th.
對於7月7日發生的事件,爲恐怖分子提供幫助的人同樣罪責難逃。
He pleaded guilty to culpable homicide (=being guilty of causing someone’s death).
他承認自己犯了殺人罪。
negligent /ˈneɡlɪdʒənt/ [not usually before noun] responsible for something bad that has happened, because you did not take enough care, or you did not try to stop it from happening 玩忽職守的,疏忽大意的
The court decided that the railway company was negligent.
法庭判定鐵路公司疏忽失職。
be in the wrong to be responsible for an accident, mistake etc – used when deciding which person, group etc should be blamed 有責任的,犯錯的〔用於判定過錯責任時〕
The other driver was clearly in the wrong.
另一名駕駛者顯然負有責任。
She always thinks it’s me who is in the wrong.
她總是認爲過錯在我。
incriminating used about things which seem to show that someone is guilty of a crime 顯示有罪的
incriminating evidence
罪證
incriminating documents
證明有罪的文件
He didn’t want to say anything incriminating.
他不想說任何可能會表明自己有罪的話。
Examples from the Corpus
guilty• Perhaps you felt guilty about ignoring a charitycollection, and so decided to punish yourself?• The jury found Sewell guilty and he was sent to prison.• I felt so guilty, do you see, yet I felt so angry with myself for feeling that way.• Parents feel guilty, even if there is no way they could have influencedevents.• Davis was found guilty of abducting and killing Polly Klaas.• Most therapists are probably guilty of at least one of these faults at some point in their career.• A 23-year-old woman was found guilty of murder in the CentralCourttoday.• Roberts pleadedguilty to driving without insurance.• He later pleaded guilty to eight perjurycounts resulting from testimony in drug cases.• The guilty were each given a life sentence.
guilty conscience• Capitalism, in the United States, has often had a guilty conscience.• Failure was an abdication of personalresponsibility, a cause of a guilty conscience.• Rob said. --- Thisis a guilty conscience.• Neil had a guilty conscience and Jessica had known it.• She owed her father nothing, not even the duty to clear his guilty conscience at the end.• Obviously he behaved in a highly suspiciousmanner today, but a guilty conscience can inspire one to do strange things.• A guilty conscience is apparent to its owner.