N-VAR 尴尬;难堪;窘迫 Embarrassment is the feeling you have when you are embarrassed.
It is a source of embarrassment to Londoners that the standard of pubs is so low... 酒馆水准之低让伦敦人觉得颜面尽失。
I think I would have died of embarrassment... 我觉得自己难堪得要死。
We apologise for any embarrassment this may have caused. 我们为因此可能带来的尴尬表示歉意。
N-COUNT 麻烦;难题;难堪的事 An embarrassment is an action, event, or situation which causes problems for a politician, political party, government, or other public group.
The poverty figures were undoubtedly an embarrassment to the president. 贫困数字毫无疑问让总统非常难堪。
N-SING 使人为难(或难堪)的人 If you refer to a person as an embarrassment, you mean that you disapprove of them but cannot avoid your connection with them.
You have been an embarrassment to us from the day Douglas married you. 从道格拉斯娶你那天起,你就让我们非常难堪。
PHRASE 好东西太多而成了问题 If you say that someone has an embarrassment of riches, you mean that they have so many good things that these things are a problem.
The art gallery's problem is an embarrassment of riches, with nowhere to put most of them. 那家美术馆的问题是好作品太多,大多数作品无处陈放。