humiliate是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为vt. 羞辱, 使丢脸,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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- For beggary a man is not chased out of human society with a stick, he is swept out with a broom, so as to make it as humiliating as possible; and quite right, too, forasmuch as in beggary I am ready to be the first to humiliate myself.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Why do you humiliate yourself like this, and place yourself lower than these people?
-- At length, in the last letter of all, he found: 'For Heaven's sake, don't misunderstand me!Do not think that I humiliate myself by writing thus to you, or that I belong to that class of people who take a satisfaction in hu-miliating themselves from pride.
-- Heavens!what a fool I have been to humiliate myself before them!Why, prince, you yourself gave me your word that you would marry me whatever hap-pened, and would never abandon me.
-- But then, for the mere sake of vindi-cating her worthiness of sympathy, you should not have insulted and offended a noble and generous girl in her pres-ence!This is a terrible exaggeration of sympathy!How can you love a girl, and yet so humiliate her as to throw her over for the sake of another woman, before the very eyes of that other woman, when you have already made her a formal proposal of marriage?
-- So, since attempts were being made to humiliate her, she wanted to hold her head even higher than usual, and to overwhelm them all with the beauty and taste of her toilette.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She felt so sinful, so guilty, that nothing was left her but to humiliate herself and beg forgiveness; and as now there was no one in her life but him, to him she addressed her prayer for forgiveness.
-- He would have had his hand chopped off before he would have allowed himself by a word, by a hint, to humiliate her, or even to fall short of the fullest respect a woman could look for.
-- "It means that I, hating him, but still recognizing that I have wronged him--and I consider him magnanimous--that I humiliate myself to write to him.... Well, suppose I make the effort; I do it.
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