Word · CEFR B2 · Frequency #9886
humiliate
使丢脸；使蒙羞；羞辱
核心释义
cause someone to feel ashamed or lose the respect of others; hurt the pride of
- 1.
使蒙羞；损害其尊严和自尊。
To cause to be ashamed; to injure the dignity and self-respect of.
- 2.
使谦卑；降低地位或身份。
To make humble; to lower in condition or status.
- 3.
彻底击败；压倒性打败。
To defeat overwhelmingly.
使蒙羞；损害其尊严和自尊。；使谦卑；降低地位或身份。；彻底击败；压倒性打败。；使丢脸；使蒙羞
用法In use
The coach humiliated the player in front of the whole team.
用法提示：humiliated 是 humiliate 的过去式，表示使某人丢脸、羞辱。
She felt humiliated when her colleagues laughed at her mistake.
用法提示：humiliated 是过去分词作表语，表达感到丢脸、蒙羞的状态。
He would never humiliate anyone, even in a heated argument.
用法提示：humiliate 作动词原形，表示羞辱他人的行为。
humiliate + someone
The boss humiliated him in front of everyone.
老板当着大家的面羞辱了他。
be humiliated (by someone/something)
常用被动结构，表示遭受羞辱。
相关词与表达Connections
搭配Collocations
- humiliate someone
- 使某人丢脸
- He humiliated me in front of everyone.他在众人面前使我丢脸。
- feel humiliated
- 感到羞辱
- She felt humiliated by his comments.她因他的评论感到羞辱。
- be humiliated by
- 被...羞辱
- The team was humiliated by a 5-0 defeat.该队以0-5的比分被羞辱。
- humiliate oneself
- 使自己丢脸
- He humiliated himself by crying during the speech.他在演讲中哭泣，使自己丢脸。
- publicly humiliate
- 公开羞辱
学习提示Learner notes
记忆技巧Memory Tip
对比“humble”（谦卑）和“humiliate”（羞辱），想象过分谦卑导致屈辱。
语境与语域Context & Register
语域：formal 常见场景：社交场合、冲突场景、职场环境 通常用于正式或较严肃的语境，多指在公开场合使某人丢脸或羞辱某人。
发音与拼写Pronunciation & Spelling
These words all end with the spelling '-iate', but their pronunciations vary in stress and vowel sounds. For example, 'humiliate' stresses the second syllable (/hjuːˈmɪliˌeɪt/), while 'radiate' and 'deviate' stress the first. None are perfect rhymes with 'humiliate' because the stressed vowel and following consonants differ.
用法优先级Usage priority
Collins 词频等级为 1，建议结合例句记忆，而不是只背中文释义。
一起学习词形Learn the forms together
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