Embarrassment is the feeling you have when you are embarrassed.
例句
It is a source of embarrassment to Londoners that the standard of pubs is so low...酒館水準之低讓倫敦人覺得顏面盡失。I think I would have died of embarrassment...我覺得自己難堪得要死。
N-COUNT
麻煩;難題;難堪的事
An embarrassment is an action, event, or situation which causes problems for a politician, political party, government, or other public group.
例句
The poverty figures were undoubtedly an embarrassment to the president.貧困數(shù)字毫無疑問讓總統(tǒng)非常難堪。
N-SING
使人為難(或難堪)的人
If you refer to a person as an embarrassment, you mean that you disapprove of them but cannot avoid your connection with them.
例句
You have been an embarrassment to us from the day Douglas married you.從道格拉斯娶你那天起，你就讓我們非常難堪。
PHRASE
好東西太多而成了問題
If you say that someone has an embarrassment of riches, you mean that they have so many good things that these things are a problem.
例句
The art gallery's problem is an embarrassment of riches, with nowhere to put most of them.那家美術(shù)館的問題是好作品太多，大多數(shù)作品無處陳放。