mortify
mortify 英 [ˈmɔ:tɪfaɪ] 美 [ˈmɔrtɪfaɪ]
v. 使难堪；使羞愧
进行时:mortifying 过去式:mortified 过去分词:mortified 第三人称单数:mortifies 名词复数:mortifies
- To mortify someone is to cause them extreme embarrassment. Your mother may not have been trying to mortify you when she showed up at your senior prom with a bunch of unicorn balloons, but she did.
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- v. 使难堪；使羞愧
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1. She was mortified to realize he had heard every word she said.
她意识到自己的每句话都被他听到了，直羞得无地自容。
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2. How mortifying to have to apologize to him!
要向他道歉，多难为情啊！
- mortify (v.) late 14c., "to kill," from Old French mortefiier "destroy, overwhelm, punish," from Late Latin mortificare "cause death, kill, put to death," literally "make dead," from mortificus "producing death," from Latin mors (genitive mortis) "death" (from PIE root *mer- "to rub away, harm," also "to die" and forming words referring to death and to beings subject to death) + combining form of facere "to make, to do" (from PIE root *dhe- "to set, put"). Religious sense of "to subdue the flesh by abstinence and discipline" first attested early 15c. Sense of "humiliate" first recorded 1690s (compare mortification). Related: Mortified; mortifying.
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