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 workers coalition experienced the ignominy of total defeat in the last election.
  工人联盟在上次大选中经受了彻底失败的耻辱。
• 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。
• The very ideal of ignominy was embodied and made manifest in this contrivance of wood and iron.
  设计这样一个用铁和木制成的家伙显然极尽羞辱之能事。
• 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。
• 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。
• This preparation for bonds, and the additional ignominy it inferred, took a little of the excitement out of me.
  她们作的这个捆绑的准备，以及这里面包含的新添加的耻辱，使我的激愤心情稍稍平静了一些。
• 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。
• Thus, we seem to see that, as regarded Hester Prynne, the whole seven years of outlaw and ignominy had been little other than a preparation for this very hour.
  这样，我们似乎就明白了：就海丝特白兰而论，这备受摒弃和耻辱的整整七年的时间，只不过是为此时此刻做好准备而已。
• 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。