abashed

Word family adjectiveabashedabashlessadverbabashedlyverbabashnounabashment

a·bashed /əˈbæʃt/ adjectiveadj [not before noun] written

EMBARRASSEDembarrassed or ashamed because you have done something wrong or stupid 羞愧的，窘迫的，尴尬的 SYN shamefaced

She looked rather abashed.

她看起来很羞愧。

Examples from the Corpus

abashed• Both girls fixed their eyes on the ground, abashed.• At Tsu Ma's toast, however, she looked down sharply, as if abashed.• He mumbled unintelligibly and looked abashed.• If so, I am not abashed.• When she came to the river the horse was standing there, head hung as if abashed.• Amazed and abashed she stole back to her chamber.• They sat around and listened with abashed smiles as Carlo Marx read them his apocalyptic, mad poetry.

Origin abashed

(1300-1400) Old French abair “to surprise greatly”, from esbair, from baer “to have the mouth wide open”

词汇	abashed
释义	abashed Word family adjectiveabashedabashlessadverbabashedlyverbabashnounabashment a·bashed /əˈbæʃt/ adjectiveadj [not before noun] written EMBARRASSEDembarrassed or ashamed because you have done something wrong or stupid 羞愧的，窘迫的，尴尬的 SYN shamefaced She looked rather abashed. 她看起来很羞愧。 Examples from the Corpus abashed• Both girls fixed their eyes on the ground, abashed.• At Tsu Ma's toast, however, she looked down sharply, as if abashed.• He mumbled unintelligibly and looked abashed.• If so, I am not abashed.• When she came to the river the horse was standing there, head hung as if abashed.• Amazed and abashed she stole back to her chamber.• They sat around and listened with abashed smiles as Carlo Marx read them his apocalyptic, mad poetry. Origin abashed (1300-1400) Old French abair “to surprise greatly”, from esbair, from baer “to have the mouth wide open”
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