embarrassment是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 窘迫， 尴尬，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had never been quite at her ease with him, and received him with some little embarrassment as he seated himself near her table.
-- 'Are you sure,' asked Jacques Two, of Defarge, 'that no embarrassment can arise from our manner of keeping the register?
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At the instant when she was just facing the stairs, he raised his eyes, caught sight of her, and into the expression of his face there passed a shade of embarrassment and dismay.
-- This agony of embarrassment was due to the fact that the sister-in-law was sitting opposite to him, in a dress, specially put on, as he fancied, for his benefit, cut particularly open, in the shape of a trapeze, on her white bosom.
-- This was evident from his confusion and embarrassment in reading the minutes.
-- said Stepan Arkadyevitch, on the sight of his brother-in-law becoming suddenly aware of a sense of embarrassment unusual with him.
-- To conceal this embarrassment he took out a cigarette case he had just bought that opened in a new way, and sniffing the leather, took a cigarette out of it.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- V As he grumped across the medical campus next day, he came unexpectedly upon Angus and he was smitten with the guiltiness and embarrassment one has toward a person who has borrowed money and probably will not return it.
-- Then "There's our house, end of the next block," said Leora, as they turned the corner at the feed and implement store, and in a panic of embarrassment Martin wanted to halt.
-- They bowed in embarrassment and passed in haste.
-- He was flustered when he tried to prepare his notes, and on the morning of the affair he was chill as he remembered the dreadful thing he would do this day, but he was desperate with embarrassment when he came up to the Star of Hope Church.
-- Thus with Sondelius, though for Martin there were as yet but embarrassment and futility and the fear of fear.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Razumihin vigorously attacked the lodgings, but, remembering Luzhin, stopped in embarrassment and was greatly relieved by Pulcheria Alexandrovna's questions, which showered in a continual stream upon him.
-- In spite of her embarrassment before Rodya's urgent and challenging look, she could not deny herself that satisfaction.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The visit was of course short; and there was so much embarrassment and occupation of mind to shorten it, that Emma would not allow herself entirely to form an opinion of the lady, and on no account to give one, beyond the nothing-meaning terms of being 'elegantly dressed, and very pleasing.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A young cavalry soldier in a red uniform, with the three chevrons of a sergeant upon his sleeve, strode up the aisle, with an embarrassment which was only the more marked by the intense vigour of his step, and by the determination upon his face to show none.
-- Would you have had me look at you, and tell my acquaintance that you are quite a common-place woman, to save you the embarrassment of being stared at if they come near you?
-- To hide her embarrassment during the unwonted process of untying the string about his neck, she said: "I have never seen that you spoke of."
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They clucked to their horses and rode along in silence for a while, a flush of embarrassment on Stuart's browncheeks.
-- "Hum hurrump," said Gerald, clearing his throat in embarrassment at being caught openly in an act of kindness.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His healthy state of mind appeared even to derive a gratification from Clennam's position of embarrassment and isolation among the good company; and if Clennam had been in that condition with which Nobody was incessantly contending, he would have suspected it, and would have struggled with the suspicion as a meanness, even while he sat at the table.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The latter recognition was uttered with just enough of embarrassment to imply a doubt of its reception; for Mr. Fagin and his young friend had not met, since she had interfered in behalf of Oliver.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As for the gen- tleman himself, HIS feelings were chiefly expressed, not by embarrassment or dejection, or by trying to avoid her, but by stiffness of manner and resentful silence.
-- Her uncle and aunt were all amazement; and the embarrassment of her manner as she spoke, joined to the circumstance itself, and many of the circumstances of the preceding day, opened to them a new idea on the business.
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