ignominy

英 [ˈɪɡnəmɪni]

美 [ˈɪɡnəmɪni]

n.  公开的耻辱; 不名誉

GRETEM8法律

BNC.32676 / COCA.30079

牛津词典

noun

• 公开的耻辱；不名誉
  public shame and loss of honour
  1. They suffered the ignominy of defeat.
     他们蒙受了失败的耻辱。

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 耻辱;污辱;不名誉
  Ignominyis shame or public disgrace.
  1. ...the ignominy of being made redundant...
     被裁员的耻辱
  2. If they were caught, she would be thrown out in disgrace, dismissed with ignominy.
     一旦他们被抓住,她就会名誉扫地,被很不光彩地撤职开除。

英英释义

noun

• a state of dishonor
  1. one mistake brought shame to all his family
  2. suffered the ignominy of being sent to prison
  Synonym:shamedisgrace

双语例句

• If the minister's voice had not kept her there, there would nevertheless have been an inevitable magnetism in that spot, whence she dated the first hour of her life of ignominy.
  如果不是牧师的声音把她吸引在那里的话，就必然还有一个不可或缺的磁力让她离不开这块她经受了耻辱生活第一个小时的地方。
• The very law that condemned her-a giant of stern features, but with vigour to support, as well as to annihilate, in his iron arm-had held her up, through the terrible ordeal of her ignominy.
  就惩办她示众的法律而论，那是一个外貌狰狞的巨人，其铁腕既可以消灭她，也可以支撑她，正是法律本身扶持着她挺过了那示众的可怕煎熬。
• Was she now to endure the ignominy of his abandoning her?
  她现在是否准备忍受被他抛弃的痛苦？
• American International Group, the stricken US insurer, is to suffer the ignominy of having its name stripped from the landmark AIG Tower in Hong Kong.
  陷入困境的美国保险公司美国国际集团（AIG）将蒙受一桩耻辱：它的名字将从香港地标建筑美国国际集团大厦（AIGTower）的名称中消失。
• In other words so long as one remains within the limits of socially proper behavior no ignominy could come.
  换句话说，只要是一个范围内适当的社会行为没有耻辱可能。
• But surely the bigger question is when, not if, France is downgraded meaning the inevitability of such ignominy should already be factored into asset prices anyway.
  然而，更重大的一个问题想必是，法国的信用评级何时调降，而不是是否会调降，这意味着，这种不可避免的耻辱应该已经在资产价格中有所反映。
• If they were caught, she would be thrown out in disgrace, dismissed with ignominy.
  一旦他们被抓住，她就会名誉扫地，被很不光彩地撤职开除。
• During much of its tenure, it held power because it helped deliver rising prosperity to a country that had only recently endured the ignominy of second-world-war defeat and American occupation.
  在执政的大多数时间里，自民党得以掌权是因为它帮助国家实现了繁荣，这个国家至今一直蒙受着第二次世界大战失败和美国占领的耻辱。
• Heaven hath granted thee an open ignominy, that thereby thou mayest work out an open triumph over the evil within thee and the sorrow without.
  上天已经赐给你一个当众受辱的机会，你就该借以光明磊落地战胜你内心的邪恶和外表的悲伤。
• Gradually his feeling of ignominy and of rage sank.
  他的怒火和耻辱渐渐烟消云散。