Word · Frequency #48446
abash
使羞愧；使困窘；使不安
to cause to be embarrassed; to cause to feel self-conscious
- 1.
To make ashamed; to embarrass; to destroy the self-possession of, as by exciting suddenly a consciousness of guilt, mistake, or inferiority; to disconcert; to discomfit.
使羞愧；使尴尬；通过突然引起内疚、错误或自卑感来破坏自持；使困惑；使窘迫
使羞愧；使尴尬；通过突然引起内疚、错误或自卑感来破坏自持；使困惑；使窘迫；使不安；使羞愧；使困窘
In use
The unexpected compliment abashed her, and she looked down at her shoes.
He felt abashed by his mistake in front of the whole class.
Don't let their teasing abash you; just smile and ignore it.
abash sb
The criticism abashed him.
批评使他感到羞愧。
be abashed (by/at sth)
常用于被动语态。
She was abashed by the unexpected compliment.
她因意外的恭维而感到窘迫。
abash sb with sth
He abashed his opponent with a sharp retort.
他用尖锐的反驳使对手困窘。
Verb forms
base abash · third person abashes · -ing abashing · past abashed · past participle abashed
使羞愧
Common mistakes
I feel abash.I feel abashed.
abash是及物动词，其过去分词abashed常用作形容词表示‘感到羞愧的’，而原形abash不能直接作表语。
She abashed by the question.She was abashed by the question.
abash是及物动词，在被动语态中必须使用be动词加过去分词，不能省略be动词。
Connections
Learner notes
Learn the forms together
页面下方列出了常见词形变化。学习时注意它们在句子中的语法位置。
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