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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The girl seemed too shy to utter a word at first, but Lady Helena quickly relieved her embarrassment by saying, with an encouraging smile: "You wish to speak to me, I think?"
-- More than once his embarrassment led them to that conclusion.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thanks to this change of position, he was able to listen to the ballad with far less embarrassment than before.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Whatever may be the truth, as respects the root and the genius of the Indian tongues, it is quite certain they are now so distinct in their words as to possess most of the disadvantages of strange languages; hence much of the embarrassment that has aris-en in learning their histories, and most of the uncertainty which exists in their traditions.
-- At last the scout spoke in English, and at once explained the embarrassment of their situation.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was most in-geniously secured at vacant hours, by a *withe twisted in the handle of the door, and stakes set against the window shut-ters; so that though a thief might get in with perfect ease, he would find some embarrassment in getting out, an idea most probably borrowed by the architect, Yost Van Houten, from the mystery of an eelpot.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I tried to conceal my embarrassment by handing round cups of tea and rather ill-cut bread-and-butter.
-- Miss Waterford was a good hostess, and seeing my embarrassment came up to me.
-- I no longer wondered that Mrs. Strickland felt a certain embarrassment about him; he was scarcely a credit to a woman who wanted to make herself a position in the world of art and letters.
-- But I was overwhelmed with embarrassment when I said to the maid the phrase I had prepared, and while I waited for the answer in a dark passage I had to call up all my strength of mind not to bolt.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs Quilp was as innocent as her own mother of any emotion, painful or pleasant, which the sight of him awakened, but as her husband's glance made her timid and confused, and uncertain what to do or what was required of her, Mr Quilp did not fail to assign her embarrassment to the cause he had in his mind, and while he chuckled at his penetration was secretly exasperated by his jealousy.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I was told that the inspector was here," said Nekhludoff, surprised at the embarrassment noticeable on the officer's face.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Instantly a silence fell, a slight embarrassment came over the company.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Presuming however, that this studied avoid-ance spoke rather a momentary embarrassment than any dislike of the proposal, and seeing in her husband, who was fond of society, a perfect willingness to accept it, she ven-tured to engage for her attendance, and the day after the next was fixed on.
-- It was not to be supposed that time would give Lydia that embarrassment from which she had been so wholly free at first.
-- He then recollected her embarrassment a few days be-fore, on his reading Mr. Collins's letter; and after laughing at her some time, allowed her at last to go saying, as she quitted the room, 'If any young men come for Mary or Kitty, send them in, for I am quite at leisure.'
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- From Willoughby their expression was at first held back, by the embarrassment which the remembrance of his assistance created.
-- Edward's embarrassment lasted some time, and it ended in an absence of mind still more settled.
-- He made no reply; his complexion changed and all his embarrassment returned; but as if, on catching the eye of the young lady with whom he had been previously talking, he felt the necessity of instant exertion, he recovered himself again, and after saying, "Yes, I had the pleasure of receiving the information of your arrival in town, which you were so good as to send me," turned hastily away with a slight bow and joined his friend.
-- Her indignation would have been still stronger than it was, had she not witnessed that embarrassment which seemed to speak a consciousness of his own misconduct, and prevented her from believing him so unprincipled as to have been sporting with the affections of her sister from the first, without any design that would bear investigation.
-- Her manners gave some re-assurance to Edward, and he had courage enough to sit down; but his embarrassment still exceeded that of the ladies in a proportion, which the case rendered reasonable, though his sex might make it rare; for his heart had not the indifference of Lucy's, nor could his conscience have quite the ease of Elinor's.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was no trace of embarrassment in her friend's manner.
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