shame
noun /ʃeɪm/
/ʃeɪm/
Idioms - a shame[singular] used to say that something is a cause for feeling sad or disappointed
令人惋惜的事；让人遗憾的事 - She's retiring because of ill health, which is a great shame.
她因健康不佳而退休，这是一大遗憾。 - What happened was a real shame.
发生的事情真的很遗憾。 - shame (that)… It's a shame that she wasn't here to see it.
真可惜，她没在这儿亲眼看看。 - Shame they didn't think of that earlier.
可惜他们没有早点想到。 - It’s a shame (that) you didn’t say something sooner.
真遗憾，你没有早点说出来。 - What a shame they couldn't come.
他们不能来了，真是遗憾。 - shame about somebody/something It's a shame about Tim, isn't it?
蒂姆的事让人遗憾，你说是不是？ - shame about somebody/something doing something It's a terrible shame about Stuart losing his job, isn't it?
斯图尔特丢了工作，真是太可惜了，不是吗？ - shame to do something It's a shame to see her wasting her talent like this.
看到她这样浪费才华，真可惜。 - shame for somebody/something to do something It'd be a shame for us to give up now.
现在放弃对我们来说是一种耻辱。 - It would be a crying shame (= a great shame) not to take them up on the offer.
要是不接受他们的提议，将来后悔都来不及。 - It seems such a shame to throw perfectly good food away.
扔掉非常好的食物似乎是一种耻辱。
- Shame they couldn't make it.
可惜他们没能来。 - It is a national shame that our prisons serve as mental institutions.
监狱被当作精神病院，这是我们的国耻。 - It would be a shame for all the work that has been done to be wasted.
所有已经完成的工作都被浪费了，这将是一种耻辱。
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- awful
- great
- real
- …
- shame about
- a bit of a shame
- rather a shame
- such a shame
- …
- She's retiring because of ill health, which is a great shame.
- [uncountable] the feelings of being sad, embarrassed or guilty that you have when you know that something you have done is wrong or stupid
羞耻；羞愧；惭愧 - with shame His face burned with shame.
他的脸因羞愧而发烫。 - They should blush with shame.
他们应该脸红。 - in shame She hung her head in shame.
她羞愧地低下了头。 - shame of something The king preferred death to the shame of defeat.
国王宁死不屈。 - shame of doing something It took me a while to get over the shame of not doing something to help him.
我花了一段时间才从不做点什么来帮助他的耻辱中恢复过来。 - shame of somebody/something doing something He could not live with the shame of other people knowing the truth.
别人知道了事情的真相，他羞得无地自容。 - shame at something I felt a twinge of shame at the thought.
想到这，我感到一阵羞愧。 - shame at doing something She admitted her shame at having a parent in prison.
她承认自己因父母入狱而感到羞愧。 - shame for doing something He was filled with shame for giving in to his anger.
他因向愤怒屈服而感到羞愧。 - shame for something She expressed her shame for her role in the whole unfortunate business.
她对自己在整个不幸事件中的角色表示羞愧。 - I would die of shame if she ever found out.
要是她发现了，我会羞愧死的。 - To my shame (= I feel shame that) I refused to listen to her side of the story.
使我感到惭愧的是，我拒绝听她对事情的解释。
Topics Feelingsb2- Do you feel no shame for what you've done?
你对自己的所作所为一点儿也不感到脸红吗？ - He had cried noisily and without shame at the news of Esther's death.
得知埃丝特的死讯，他不顾面子地大声哭了起来。 - Her pregnancy was no cause for shame.
她怀孕并不是什么丑事。 - She felt a flush of shame at what she'd done.
她为自己所做的事羞愧得脸都红了。 - She wept from the shame of having let everyone down.
她因使大家失望而羞愧地哭了起来。 - This is the secret shame I have carried around for decades.
这个不为人知的羞耻之事压在我心中有好几十年了。
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- deep
- secret
- public
- …
- be filled with
- feel
- bring
- …
- from shame
- in shame
- to your shame
- …
- bow your head in shame
- hang your head in shame
- a feeling of shame
- …
- with shame His face burned with shame.
- [uncountable] (formal) (only used in questions and negative sentences
仅用于疑问句和否定句 羞耻心；羞愧感 - Have you no shame?
你就不知道羞耻吗？ - without shame That child is completely without shame!
那孩子完全没有羞耻心！ - She has no sense of shame.
她没有羞耻感。
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- deep
- secret
- public
- …
- be filled with
- feel
- bring
- …
- from shame
- in shame
- to your shame
- …
- bow your head in shame
- hang your head in shame
- a feeling of shame
- …
- Have you no shame?
- [uncountable] the loss of respect that is caused when you do something wrong or stupid
耻辱；丢脸 - There is no shame in wanting to be successful.
有抱负不是什么丢脸的事。 - (formal) She felt that her failure would bring shame on her family.
她觉得她的失败会使家人蒙羞。 - He risked public shame and possible imprisonment.
他冒着当众受辱和身陷囹圄的危险。
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- deep
- secret
- public
- …
- be filled with
- feel
- bring
- …
- from shame
- in shame
- to your shame
- …
- bow your head in shame
- hang your head in shame
- a feeling of shame
- …
- There is no shame in wanting to be successful.
词源Old English sc(e)amu (noun), sc(e)amian ‘feel shame’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch schamen (verb) and German Scham (noun), schämen (verb).
Idioms
put somebody/something to shame
- to be much better than somebody/something
大大胜过；使相形见绌；使自愧不如 - Their presentation put ours to shame.
他们的演出使我们的相形见绌。 - Her energy and enthusiasm puts the rest of us to shame (= makes us feel embarrassed and guilty that we are not the same).
她的精力和热情让我们其他人感到羞愧。
- Their presentation put ours to shame.
shame on you, him, etc.
- (informal) used to say that somebody should feel ashamed for something they have said or done
（责备时说）真丢脸，真不害臊 - Shame on you for doubting me!
你居然怀疑我，真不害臊！
- Shame on you for doubting me!