humiliate
英 [hjuːˈmɪl.i.eɪt]
美 [hjuːˈmɪl.i.eɪt]
1. Etymologically, humble means 'make sb close to the ground'.
humiliate 羞辱来自拉丁语humilis,尘土一样的,卑微的,来自humus,土,尘土,词源同humus,-ate,使。即使像尘土一样卑微的,引申词义羞辱。
- humiliate
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humiliate: see humble
- humiliate (v.)
- 1530s, perhaps a back-formation from humiliation. Related: Humiliated; humiliating; humiliatingly.
- 1. There are people who want to humiliate you and grind you down.
- 有一些人会想要让你难堪,欺负你。
- 2. I didn't want to humiliate her in front of her colleagues.
- 我不想当着她同事们的面令她难堪。
- 3. What right had they to bully and humiliate people like this?
- 凭什么把人欺侮到这个地步 呢 ?
- 4. It was not my intention to hurt or humiliate her.
- 我不是有意要伤她使她下不来台的.
- 5. Why hang around just to see him humiliate himself in front of the whole village?
- 为什么呆在这儿看他在整个村子的人面前出丑?