humiliate
humiliate 英 [hju:ˈmɪlieɪt] 美 [hjuˈmɪliˌet]
vt. 羞辱；使…丢脸；耻辱
进行时:humiliating 过去式:humiliated 过去分词:humiliated 第三人称单数:humiliates
- Humiliate means to make someone feel ashamed or stupid, often publicly. It would humiliate all but the most self-assured person to realize that everyone else in the room has noticed their fly is down.
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- vt. 羞辱；使…丢脸；耻辱
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1. Their goal is to humiliate us.
他们的目的是羞辱我们。
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2. They want to humiliate us.
他们是要羞辱我们。
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3. As I wrote in my previous column, it has even tried to humiliate female activists by subjecting them to forced “virginity exams.
正如我在先前的专栏中所写到的，他们甚至试图通过强制进行“童贞测试”来羞辱女性活动者。
- humiliate (v.) 1530s, a back-formation from humiliation or else from Late Latin humiliatus, past participle of humiliare "to humble," from humilis "lowly, humble," literally "on the ground," from humus "earth," from PIE root *dhghem- "earth." Earlier was humily "humble oneself" (mid-15c.), from Old French humilier. Related: Humiliated.
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