umbrage
umbrage 英 [ˈʌmbrɪdʒ] 美 [ˈʌmbrɪdʒ]
n. 不快，生气；树荫；怀疑
名词复数:umbrages
- When someone takes umbrage at something, they find it offensive, and it probably makes them angry.
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- n. 不快，生气；树荫；怀疑
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1. The answers were kept confidential to prevent any partners taking umbrage .
为了防止他们的另一半感到不快，他们的答案都是保密的。
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2. Andy Roddick, who more typically uses Twitter to tell fans he is meeting up with Elton John on 31 November – he later realised that the month is only 30 days long – has taken particular umbrage.
Twitter的忠实用户安迪·罗迪克（美国网坛超级明星）通过twitter告诉球迷们他将于11月31号跟艾尔顿·约翰对决——随后才意识到11月只有30天！ 这件事曾一度引起不快。
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3. Defenders of the Big Three automakers have taken umbrage with the notion that automakers’ labor cost is roughly $73 per hour, compared with $48 for Toyota employees in southern states.
三大车企的劳工成本每小时大约73美元的说法让他们的捍卫者极为恼火，因为与之相比南部的州县的丰田汽车其员工成本只有每小时48元。
- umbrage (n.) early 15c., "shadow, shade," from Middle French ombrage "shade, shadow," from noun use of Latin umbraticum "of or pertaining to shade; being in retirement," neuter of umbraticus "of or pertaining to shade," from umbra "shade, shadow," from PIE root *andho- "blind; dark" (source also of Sanskrit andha-, Avestan anda- "blind, dark"). Many figurative uses in 17c.; main remaining one is the meaning "suspicion that one has been slighted," first recorded 1610s; hence phrase to take umbrage at, attested from 1670s.
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