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  • Conjugation : past  shamed ; ing  shaming
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Collins English-Chinese Dictionary

shame [ʃeɪm]
  1. 1. noun [u] (embarrassment) 羞耻
  2. 2. noun (disgrace) 耻辱
  3. 3. vt. 使感到羞耻
    it is a shame that...
    …真遗憾
    it would be a shame to waste this
    把这浪费掉可惜
    what a shame!
    太遗憾了!
    to put sb/sth to shame
    使某人/某事相形见绌
    it shamed him to admit...
    羞愧承认
    to shame sb into sth/into doing sth
    使某人羞愧地做某事

Comprehensive English-Chinese Dictionary

shame [ʃeɪm]
  1. 1. n.[u] 廉耻羞愧
  2. 2. n.[u] 耻辱不光彩
    One mistake brought shame to all his family.
    一次错误让他整个家庭蒙羞。
  3. 3. n.[c] 遗憾憾事
  4. 4. vt. 使丢脸,使蒙羞
  5. 5. vt. 使因羞愧而做
    She shamed him into making amends.
    她使他出于羞愧而做出赔偿
  6. 6. vt. 使感到羞愧
  7. 7. vt. 把……比下去,使相形见绌

Collins English-English Dictionary

shame [ʃeɪm]
  1. 1. n a painful emotion resulting from an awareness of having done something dishonourable, unworthy, degrading, etc
  2. 2. n capacity to feel such an emotion
  3. 3. n ignominy or disgrace
  4. 4. n a person or thing that causes this
  5. 5. n an occasion for regret, disappointment, etc
    it's a shame you can't come with us
  6. 6. interj [South African] [Spoken] an expression of sympathy
  7. 7. interj an expression of pleasure or endearment
  8. 8. vt. [tr] to cause to feel shame
  9. 9. vt. to bring shame on; disgrace
  10. 10. vt. [often foll by into] to compel through a sense of shame
    he shamed her into making an apology
  11. 11. vt. See name
  12. 12. vt. [Etymology] Old English scamu; related to Old Norse skömm, Old High German skama

Examples

abyss of shame
奇耻大辱
a damned shame
真可耻
to bring shame to one's family
给家庭丢脸
Her goal was to shame him into doing a better job next time.
她的目的是让他感到羞愧,这样他下次就能把工作做好点儿。
He brought shame into his family when he was arrested last June.
去年6月他被捕了,这让他的家人蒙羞。
I'm afraid I can't go to Mia's party. - Oh, that's a shame.
我恐怕不能参加米娅的聚会了。-噢,那太遗憾了。

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