humiliate
verb /hjuːˈmɪlieɪt/
/hjuːˈmɪlieɪt/
动词形式
| present simple I / you / we / they humiliate | /hjuːˈmɪlieɪt/ /hjuːˈmɪlieɪt/ |
| he / she / it humiliates | /hjuːˈmɪlieɪts/ /hjuːˈmɪlieɪts/ |
| past simple humiliated | /hjuːˈmɪlieɪtɪd/ /hjuːˈmɪlieɪtɪd/ |
| past participle humiliated | /hjuːˈmɪlieɪtɪd/ /hjuːˈmɪlieɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form humiliating | /hjuːˈmɪlieɪtɪŋ/ /hjuːˈmɪlieɪtɪŋ/ |
- humiliate somebody/yourself/something to make somebody feel ashamed or stupid and lose the respect of other people
羞辱；使丧失尊严 - I didn't want to humiliate her in front of her colleagues.
我不想当着她同事们的面令她难堪。 - I've never felt so humiliated.
我从未感到如此羞辱。 - How could I humiliate myself like that?
我怎么能这样羞辱自己呢？ - The party was humiliated in the recent elections.
该党在新近的选举中耻辱地失败了。
Topics Feelingsc1- I have never felt so humiliated in all my life.
我一辈子都未受过如此羞辱。 - Lowe was publicly humiliated by his colleagues.
洛遭到同事们的公开羞辱。 - She felt completely humiliated.
她觉得自己受到极大的羞辱。 - There was no need to humiliate herself over something so petty.
没必要为了这么点小事而羞辱自己。
Collocations Dictionaryadverb- deeply
- completely
- totally
- …
- in front of
- feel humiliated
词源mid 16th cent. (earlier (late Middle English) as humiliation): from late Latin humiliat- ‘made humble’, from the verb humiliare, from humilis ‘low, lowly’, from humus ‘ground’. The original meaning was ‘bring low’; the current sense dates from the mid 18th cent. - I didn't want to humiliate her in front of her colleagues.