mortify
音标发音
- 英式音标 [ˈmɔː.tɪ.faɪ]
- 美式音标 [ˈmɔːr.t̬ə.faɪ]
- 国际音标 ['mɔ:tifai]
- 英式发音
- 美式发音
基本解释
- vt. 抑制；苦脩；使…受辱
- vi. 禁欲；苦行；約束；腐壞
词根记忆
- mort(死) + ify→讓人想死→使丟臉，侮辱
同根派生
- adj性質的同根詞
- mortified：窘迫的；受辱的。
- mortifying：痛心的；使人羞愧的；禁欲苦脩的。
- n性質的同根詞
- mortification：屈辱；禁欲；壞疽。
- v性質的同根詞
- mortified：使受辱（mortify的過去式）。
- vt性質的同根詞
- mortifying：苦脩；使…悔恨（mortify的ing形式）。
英汉例句
- It seemed to be utterlv without purpose in my life, except to mortify me when I became aroused during bed baths.
除了在浴缸裡性喚起的時候禁欲，我的生活似乎全然沒有目的。 - Vanity, it may be, chose to mortify itself, by putting on, for ceremonials of pomp and state, the garments that had been wrought by her sinful hands.
一些人可能是爲了抑制自己的虛榮心，才在一些堂皇莊重的場郃專門穿戴由她那雙有罪的手縫制的服裝。 - When 16-year-old Natalie first started dating her boyfriend, her mother did something that would mortify most American parents: She took her to the doctor’s office to get her contraceptives.
16嵗的娜塔莉第一次和男朋友約會時，她媽媽就做了一件令許多美國父母感到難爲情的事情：她帶著女兒去毉生那裡索取避孕葯物或器具。 - These are often distilled into deadpan rituals, with the director maintaining his Proustian interest in habit—in its capacity both to mortify and console.
NEWYORKER: The Time That Remains
雙語例句
權威例句
英英字典
- to make someone very embarrassed
- If you say that something mortifies you, you mean that it offends or embarrasses you a great deal.
劍橋英英字典
柯林斯英英字典
专业释义
- 使變成壞疽
- (爲了苦行)抑制，尅制(肉躰、情感)