indignity

英 [ɪnˈdɪɡnəti]

美 [ɪnˈdɪɡnəti]

n.  侮辱; 轻蔑; 侮辱性的行为

复数：indignities　

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Collins.1 / BNC.14276 / COCA.16237

牛津词典

noun

• 侮辱；轻蔑；侮辱性的行为
  a situation that makes you feel embarrassed or ashamed because you are not treated with respect; an act that causes these feelings
  1. The chairman suffered the indignity of being refused admission to the meeting.
     主席蒙受了被拒于会议之外的侮辱。
  2. the daily indignities of imprisonment
     身陷囹圄每日所带来的侮辱

柯林斯词典

• N-VAR 侮辱;轻蔑
  If you talk aboutthe indignity ofdoing something, you mean that it makes you feel embarrassed or unimportant.
  1. Later, he suffered the indignity of having to flee angry protesters...
     后来,他不得不极不光彩地避开愤怒的抗议者溜走了。
  2. What sort of indignities would he be forced to endure?
     他会被迫忍受什么样的侮辱呢？

英英释义

noun

• an affront to one's dignity or self-esteem

双语例句

• A fever of disgrace, of indignity, of hunger.
  耻辱、污蔑、饥饿的恶疾。
• Idle industries have cast workers into unemployment, human misery and personal indignity. People who are out of work cannot afford to scoff at any job.
  工厂停工使工人们失业，蒙受痛苦和失去个人尊严。失业的人就不能看不起任何工作。
• Those who worked were looked down upon with contempt, and subjected to every possible indignity.
  从事劳动的人被人轻视，受尽侮辱。
• And for the indignity and degradation thus inflicted on a proud people and a proud culture, we say sorry.
  对由此引起的对一个自豪民族和自豪文化的侮辱和贬低，我们要说“对不起”。
• No more begging in the intense sun and rain, and no more indignity.
  再也无需雨打日晒地乞讨，再也没有侮辱。
• I was very young: the prospect of working under a woman constituted the ultimate indignity.
  我当时很年轻，我要在一个女人手下工作，这对我简直是最大的侮辱。
• In1986 China has joined the UN Convention on the Prohibition of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Indignity Treatments or Punishments, which has been enforced as a domestic law in China.
  中国在1986年就加入联合国《禁止酷刑和其他残忍、不人道或有辱人格的待遇或处罚公约》，并将公约相应条款变成中国法律实施。
• But now even the King of Chu is on his knees begging for mercy, can Peking opera survive this indignity?
  连楚霸王都跪下来求饶了，京戏能不亡吗？
• The gated villages are the latest indignity for China's migrant workers, who already face limited access to schooling and government services and are routinely blamed by city folk for rising crime.
  封锁村庄是对那些已经面对有限的入学机会和政府服务的、理所当然地因不断升高的犯罪率而被城市居民指责的外面务工人员的最新的一种歧视。
• Even those who bitterly opposed Saddam feel the indignity of his humiliation at American hands.
  甚至那些极端反对海珊的人也感受到美国人对他羞辱。