詞彙精選：shame的用法和辨析
一、詳細釋義：
n.
羞愧，羞恥
例句：
He had expressed shame for a past transaction of his life.
他對過去那件事表示了羞愧。
例句：
If you did right, you needn't feel shame.
如果你做得對，你就不必感到慚愧。
羞愧感
例句：
She had no sense of shame and never felt guilty.
他毫無羞恥之心，而且從不覺得內疚。
例句：
At this thought an unbearable sense of shame possessed him.
一想到這裏，一種難堪的羞愧感就籠罩着他。
憾事，帶來恥辱的人，可恥的人
例句：
What a shame that it rained today.
今天下雨了，真可惜。
例句：
I think it a shame I didn't know you very well years ago.
可惜我沒能早幾年就真正的瞭解你。
v.
使蒙羞，玷辱 [T]
例句：
She shamed him into making amends.
她迫使他蒙羞作了道歉。
例句：
He shamed his family by being sent to prison.
他進監獄使他一家蒙羞。
使羞愧，使丟臉 [T]
例句：
He was shamed by how much more work the others had done.
別人做得多得多，他感到很難爲情。
例句：
That event shamed him out of his bad habit.
那件事使他感到羞愧而改掉了壞習慣。
使相形見絀 [T]
例句：
Her academic achievements shamed her brothers.
她的學術成就使她的兄弟們相形見絀。
例句：
Their presentation put ours to shame.
他們的演出使我們的相形見絀。
二、詞義辨析：
disgrace,humiliate,shame,dishonour
這些動詞均含“使丟臉、使受恥辱”之意。disgrace側重在別人，尤其在衆人面前丟臉。 humiliate強調受辱者自尊心的損壞。shame指由不光彩或不道德的行爲引起的慚愧感或羞恥感。dishonour有時可與disgrace換用，但前者是指因失去榮譽所致。
三、參考例句：
Have you no shame?
你不羞恥嗎?
She drooped her head for shame.
她羞愧地低下頭來。
What a shame that it rained today.
今天下雨了，真可惜。
What a shame that it rained today.
今天下雨了，真可惜。
Fool me once, shame on you.
騙我一次，是你狠；騙我兩次，是我蠢。
She bowed her head (down) in shame.
她羞愧地低下頭來。
How can we make people forget the family's shame?
我們怎麼能讓人忘記這一家庭的恥辱呢？
At this thought an unbearable sense of shame possessed him.
一想到這裏，一種難堪的羞愧感就籠罩着他。
He had no sense of shame and never felt guilty.
他毫無羞恥之心，而且從不覺得內疚。
I hid not my face from shame and spitting.
我並沒有掩面躲避人的羞辱和人的唾液。
