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单词

disgrace

读音
dɪsˈɡreɪs
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英式
词根

Disgrace 的词根来自于法语,包含两部分,“dis-” 取消,拆散,“grâce” 表示"恩典" 或 "优雅"。所以,"disgrace" 有 “丧失优雅或恩典”的含义。

释义

n. 耻辱;丢脸的人或事;失宠 vt. 使……失宠;给……丢脸;使……蒙受耻辱;贬黜 [ 第三人称单数 disgraces 现在分词 disgracing 过去式 disgraced 过去分词 disgraced ]

例句

There is no disgrace in being poor.
贫穷不是耻辱。
Sam was in disgrace with his parents.
萨姆已失宠于他的父母。
The state of our roads is a national disgrace.
我们的道路状况是国家的耻辱。

强化记忆

试想一下某个有优雅和恩典的人突然做出了一些严重错误,他就可能丧失了这种优雅或恩典,变得不受人尊敬,这就是"disgrace"的基本含义,通过这种场景,你会更容易记住这个词。"Disgrace"这个词在15世纪法语引入英语后逐渐流行起来,本身没有太多的文化背景,但在欧美社会中,人们极其看重名誉和面子,所以经常使用。

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by the very same man that some of you may rememberhad to end up resigning in disgracebecause he claimed he had cloned a human embryo, which he had not.
While many of the details of Diogenes’ life are shadowy,the philosophical ideas born out of his disgrace survive today.In exile, Diogenes decided that by rejecting the opinions of others
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