scandalous
scandalous 英 [ˈskændələs] 美 [ˈskændləs]
adj. 可耻的；诽谤性的
- Scandalous describes something that's shocking, and maybe a little embarrassing or even offensive. Your great-grandfather might be a scandalous character in your family history if he was married seven times, each time to younger and younger wives.
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- adj. 可耻的；诽谤性的
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1. The current maldistribution of wealth is also scandalous.
当前财富的分配不公也是可耻的。
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2. The scandalous, seditious and libelous books that need to be brought to justice in this remarkable sentence are suddenly revealed to have a soul.
有诽谤性的煽动性的中伤性的需要被审判的书,在这句话里突然被透露出是有灵魂的。
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3. As Jacques Delpla, an economist on the Council of Economic Analysis, points out, French governments have lived beyond their means even during the years of plenty—a failure he calls “scandalous”.
经济分析委员会的经济学家雅克? 德普拉指出，法国政府就连在经济状况良好的岁月里也入不敷出，他把这种失败称作“可耻”。
- scandalous (adj.) late 15c., from French scandaleux, from Medieval Latin scandalosus "scandalous," from Church Latin scandalum (see scandal). Related: Scandalously.
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