embarrassment

1. N-VAR Embarrassment is the feeling you have when you are embarrassed. 尴尬; 难堪

I think I would have died of embarrassment. 我觉得我一定会尴尬得要死。

We apologize for any embarrassment this may have caused. 我们为可能会带来的任何尴尬而道歉。

2. N-COUNT An embarrassment is an action, event, or situation that causes problems for a politician, political party, government, or other public group. 难堪的事

The poverty figures were undoubtedly an embarrassment to the president. 这些贫困数字无疑是令总统难堪的一件事。

3. N-SING If you refer to a person as an embarrassment, you mean that you disapprove of them but cannot avoid your connection with them. 丢脸的人[表不满]

You have been an embarrassment to us from the day Doug married you. 自从你和道格结婚的那天起你对我们来讲一直是个丢脸的人。