一、详细释义：


n.

羞愧，羞耻


例句：

He had expressed shame for a past transaction of his life.

他对过去那件事表示了羞愧。


例句：

If you did right, you needn't feel shame.

如果你做得对，你就不必感到惭愧。


羞愧感


例句：

She had no sense of shame and never felt guilty.

他毫无羞耻之心，而且从不觉得内疚。


例句：

At this thought an unbearable sense of shame possessed him.

一想到这里，一种难堪的羞愧感就笼罩着他。


憾事，带来耻辱的人，可耻的人


例句：

What a shame that it rained today.

今天下雨了，真可惜。


例句：

I think it a shame I didn't know you very well years ago.

可惜我没能早几年就真正的了解你。


v.

使蒙羞，玷辱 [T]


例句：

She shamed him into making amends.

她迫使他蒙羞作了道歉。


例句：

He shamed his family by being sent to prison.

他进监狱使他一家蒙羞。


使羞愧，使丢脸 [T]


例句：

He was shamed by how much more work the others had done.

别人做得多得多，他感到很难为情。


例句：

That event shamed him out of his bad habit.

那件事使他感到羞愧而改掉了坏习惯。


使相形见绌 [T]


例句：

Her academic achievements shamed her brothers.

她的学术成就使她的兄弟们相形见绌。


例句：

Their presentation put ours to shame.

他们的演出使我们的相形见绌。


二、词义辨析：


disgrace,humiliate,shame,dishonour

这些动词均含“使丢脸、使受耻辱”之意。 disgrace侧重在别人，尤其在众人面前丢脸。 humiliate强调受辱者自尊心的损坏。 shame指由不光彩或不道德的行为引起的惭愧感或羞耻感。 dishonour有时可与disgrace换用，但前者是指因失去荣誉所致。


三、参考例句：


Have you no shame?

你不羞耻吗?


She drooped her head for shame.

她羞愧地低下头来。


What a shame that it rained today.

今天下雨了，真可惜。


What a shame that it rained today.

今天下雨了，真可惜。


Fool me once, shame on you.

骗我一次，是你狠；骗我两次，是我蠢。


She bowed her head (down) in shame.

她羞愧地低下头来。


How can we make people forget the family's shame?

我们怎么能让人忘记这一家庭的耻辱呢？


At this thought an unbearable sense of shame possessed him.

一想到这里，一种难堪的羞愧感就笼罩着他。


He had no sense of shame and never felt guilty.

他毫无羞耻之心，而且从不觉得内疚。


I hid not my face from shame and spitting.

我并没有掩面躲避人的羞辱和人的唾液。