mortification
mortification 英 [ˌmɔ:tɪfɪ'keɪʃn] 美 [ˌmɔrtəfɪˈkeʃən]
n. 屈辱；禁欲；坏疽
名词复数:mortifications
- If you've ever gone an entire day with your fly unzipped, not realizing until after you've given a speech in front of a huge audience, you know what mortification feels like.
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- n. 屈辱；禁欲；坏疽
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1. While Ali Baba took these measures, the captain of the forty robbers returned to the forest with inconceivable mortification.
当阿里巴巴采取这些措施时，这四十个强盗的首领带着难以想象的屈辱回到树林。
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2. Hareton's chest heaved in silence a minute: he laboured under a severe sense of mortification and wrath, which it was no easy task to suppress.
哈里顿的胸膛默默地起伏了一下：他是在一种严重的屈辱与愤怒的感觉下苦斗，要压制下去是不容易的事。
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3. They are younger than I am and know almost nothing about what is bearable and what isn’t, about the evanescent line between simple mortification and an unendurable, impossible joke.
他们比我还年轻，对于什么事情该忍耐什么事情不该忍耐，对于单纯的禁欲与无法忍受、令人讨厌的玩笑，他们一无所知。
- mortification (n.) late 14c., "mortifying the flesh, suppression of bodily desires," from Late Latin mortificationem (nominative mortificatio) "a killing, putting to death," from past participle stem of mortificare (see mortify). Sense of "feeling of humiliation" first recorded 1640s.
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