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mortify是什么意思

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mortify 是什么意思

音标:[ 'mɔ:tifai ]  
过去式:mortified   过去分词:mortified   现在分词:mortifying   

中文翻译与英英解释

vt.,vi.
1.抑制(情欲等)。
2.使悔恨,使感耻辱;伤害(感情)。
3.【医学】(使)患脱疽。
4.【植物;植物学】生枯斑,坏死。
undergo necrosis; "the tissue around the wound necrosed"
同义词:necrose, gangrene, sphacelate,

cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of; "He humiliated his colleague by criticising him in front of the boss"
同义词:humiliate, chagrin, humble, abase,

hold within limits and control; "subdue one''s appetites"; "mortify the flesh"
同义词:subdue, crucify,

practice self-denial of one''s body and appetites

例句与用法

1.I felt mortified to be of so little use in the boat .
我坐在小船里什么用处也没有,真觉得丢人。

2.This unexpected silence mortified him beyond reason .
这意外的不理睬无缘无故地伤害了他的自尊心。

3.He was mortified .
他感到了心痛。

4.The first sunday, in particular, their behaviours served to mortify me .
到了这里第一个星期,她们的行为几乎把我气死。

5.I've said i did not love her, and rather relished mortifying her vanity now and then .
我已经说过我不爱她,而且时时以伤害她的虚荣心为乐。

6.She was mortified that rhys should not only witness her shame but save her from it .
她感到屈辱,里斯不仅亲眼目睹了她的丢脸,而且还把她从中解救出来。

7.Only when he came to the word tarnish, he looked upon his lace like one a little mortified .
只是当他读到“失去光泽”这几个字的时候,他望望自己的花边,似乎感到了一点耻辱。

8.The sphinx was so mortified at the solving of her riddle that she cast herself down from the rock and perished .
斯芬克斯见到有人破了它的谜语,痛苦万分,纵身跳下岩石摔死了。

9.Probably the reasons she gave to the mortified young man himself were not those which actuated her refusal .
她向那位失望的年轻人当面提出的理由,也许并不是真正促使她拒绝他的原因。

10.The suitors pretended to receive telemachus with joy at his return through secretly mortified at the failure of their plots to take his life .
求婚者装出一副为忒勒玛科斯的归来而高兴的样子迎接他,暗里却为没有把他杀掉而恼怒。

 
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