Embarrassing

(adj.) causing to feel shame or chagrin or vexation; 'the embarrassing moment when she found her petticoat down around her ankles'; 'it was mortifying to know he had heard every word' .

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• It quite spoiled my pleasure for that night because it was so very embarrassing and so very ridiculous. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Mrs. Fisher, moreover, had no embarrassing curiosity. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• I couldn't, it was so embarrassing for me. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• That is the subject _we_ think of, and it gives us, from morning to night, enough to think about, without embarrassing our heads concerning others. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• The break he set between his last two sentences was quite embarrassing to his hearer. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• When you go out to look at my island, I will supply you with a less embarrassing dress—more adapted for walking and climbing. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• It's too embarrassing now. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• Helena made a pretty grimace, and ordered Maurice back to his chair, which was at a safe distance, and did not admit of any embarrassing endearments. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• The meeting was said to have been embarrassing to both, and the conversation was principally apologetic. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• She stood so near to one, pressing herself near upon one, in a way that was most embarrassing and oppressive. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• I went immediately to Mr. Edison and told him of the forgery and the amount of money taken, and in what an embarrassing position we were for the next pay-roll. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• From one fruitless care, it was turned away to another care much more intricate, much more embarrassing, and just equally fruitless. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The administration had indeed a most embarrassing problem to solve. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• A woman once told me that she had let her son grow up ignorant of his sexual life because a mother should never mention anything 'embarrassing' to her child. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• I troubled him with no embarrassing questions on this delicate subject. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Emma was extremely glad to see himbut there was a degree of confusiona number of embarrassing recollections on each side. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• The subject is dreadfully embarrassing. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• My position was so embarrassing in fact that I made several applications during the siege to be relieved. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• There were so many more volunteers than had been called for that the question whom to accept was quite embarrassing to the governor, Richard Yates. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Her two absent cousins, especially Maria, were much in her thoughts on seeing him; but no embarrassing remembrance affected _his_ spirits. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• As he spoke, he was checked by an embarrassing sense of the complications to which this might lead. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Meade's position afterwards proved embarrassing to me if not to him. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• But, leaning on the breast-high window, and staring in out of the darkness, they find the visitor extremely embarrassing. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.

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