shame
noun
verb
ʃeɪm noun
1
it’s a shame/what a shame etc
used when you wish a situation was different, and you feel sad or disappointed [口] 真遗憾，多可惜啊 spoken
‘She’s failed her test again.’ ‘What a shame!’
“她又没通过测验。”“真遗憾！”
It’s a shame that you have to leave so soon.
你这么快就要走了，真遗憾。
What a shame we missed the wedding.
我们错过了这场婚礼，太可惜了。
it is a shame to do sth
It’s a shame to cover this beautiful table with a tablecloth.
把这张漂亮的桌子用桌布盖起来真是可惜。
I can’t imagine why they canceled your show, Tracy. That’s such a shame .
我搞不懂他们为什么把你的演出取消了，特蕾西。多可惜啊。
a crying/great/terrible shame
It was a crying shame that they lost the game.
他们输了这场比赛真是可惜。
2 the feeling you have when you feel guilty and embarrassed because you, or someone who is close to you, have done something wrong 〔因做错事感到的〕羞愧，羞耻，惭愧 U
He felt a deep sense of shame.
他深深地感到羞愧。
Maria blushed with shame.
玛丽亚羞得脸都红了。
To her shame (=it made her feel ashamed) , she gained back all the weight she’d lost.
让她感到惭愧的是，她减掉的体重全又长回来了。
He’s brought shame on the whole family.
他使全家蒙羞。
hang/bow your head in shame (look down, or feel like you should look down, because you feel so ashamed) 惭愧地低下头
I bow my head in shame when I think of how I treated her.
想到我是如何对待她的，我就万分羞愧。
There’s no shame in (=it should not make you feel ashamed) saying ‘I don’t know’.
说一声“我不知道”也没什么可难为情的。
3 the ability to feel shame 羞耻心，羞愧感 U
How could you do such a thing? Have you no shame ?
你怎么可以做这种事情？难道你不知道羞耻吗？
4
shame on you/him/them etc
used to say that someone should feel guilty or embarrassed because of something they have done [口] 你/他/他们等应该感到羞耻 spoken
Shame on you, Fred. I thought you were my friend!
弗雷德，你真不害臊。我还把你当作我的朋友呢！
5
put sb/sth to shame
to be so much better than someone or something else that it makes the other thing seem very bad or ordinary 使某人/某物黯然失色，使某人/某物相形见绌
His cooking puts mine to shame.
他的厨艺让我自愧不如。
verb
6 to make someone feel ashamed 使羞愧，使惭愧
It shames me to say it, but I lied.
说出来真难为情，我撒谎了。
He felt shamed and humiliated by the treatment he had received.
他为自己受到如此对待感到蒙受了耻辱。
7
shame sb into doing sth
to force someone to do something by making them feel ashamed 使某人羞愧而不得不做某事
His wife shamed him into handing the money back.
他的妻子使他羞愧得只好把钱交回去。
8 to be so much better than someone else that you make them seem bad or feel embarrassed 使黯然失色，使相形见绌
Their training record shamed other companies.
他们的培训记录使其他公司相形见绌。
9 to make someone feel they have lost all honour and respect 使蒙羞，使丢脸
She had shamed her family name (=done something that made her family lose honour) .
她使自己家族的名声受到了玷污。