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词典释义:
mortify
时间: 2024-04-10 08:08:14
GRE
英 [ˈmɔːtɪfʌɪ]
美 [ˈmɔrdəˌfaɪ]

v. 使受辱;使羞愧;使窘迫;抑制;克制;变成坏疽;坏死

双语例句
  • My father has been learning to mortify his bad temper recently.

    我的父亲最近在学习抑制自己的暴躁脾气。

  • Forgetting my lines on the stage mortified me deeply.

    在舞台上忘记台词的情况真的很让我尴尬。

  • His right arm mortified.

    他的这只右手臂坏死了。

  • The thought of the incident still mortified her.

    一想起这件事情还是使她很尴尬

  • To cause to feel chagrin ; mortify or discomfit.

    使懊恼,使受屈辱,使窘迫。

  • Nor need he mortify sin; Christ has mortified sin for him.

    基督徒也不必治死罪;基督已经为我们治死罪了。

  • Is it not this: to humiliate oneself in order to mortify one's pride?

    这个是不是:用羞辱自己的尊严来抑制自己的高傲?

  • You would not wish to disappoint and mortify the Coles, I am sure, sir;

    我敢说,先生,你是不想叫科尔夫妇扫兴、丢面子的。

  • It seemed to be utterlv without purpose in my life, except to mortify me when I became aroused during bed baths.

    除了在浴缸里性唤起的时候禁欲,我的生活似乎全然没有目的。

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词根 mortify

  • mortified adj. 窘迫的;受辱的 v. 使受辱(mortify的过去式)

  • mortifying adj. 痛心的;使人羞愧的;禁欲苦修的 vt. 苦修;使…悔恨(mortify的ing形式)

  • mortification n. 屈辱;禁欲;坏疽

释义
v.

(常作be mortified)cause (someone) to feel embarrassed, ashamed, or humiliated

使受辱;使羞愧;使窘迫

  • [with obj. and infinitive]she was mortified to see her wrinkles in the mirror

    看到镜子里自己的皱纹,她感到窘迫

  • [as adj. mortifying]she refused to accept this mortifying disgrace.

    她拒绝接受这种丢脸的耻辱。

subdue (the body or its needs and desires) by self-denial or discipline

抑制,克制(肉体需要,情感)

  • return to heaven by mortifying the flesh.

    克制肉欲回到天堂。

[no obj.](of flesh)be affected by gangrene or necrosis

(肌体)变成坏疽,坏死

  • a scratch or cut in Henry's arm had mortified.

    亨利胳膊上的擦伤或割伤已形成坏疽。

词源

"late Middle English (in the senses ‘put to death’, ‘deaden', and ‘subdue by self-denial’): from Old French mortifier, from ecclesiastical Latin mortificare ‘kill, subdue', from mors, mort- ‘death’."

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