shamefaced是什么意思

shamefaced

英 [?e?m'fe?st; '?e?m-] 美 ['?em'fest]

shamefaced 羞愧的，慚愧的

拼寫受 face 影響，俗化自 shamefast,來自 shame,羞恥，羞愧，-fast,固定的，穩固的。

shamefaced (adj.): "modest, bashful," 1550s, folk etymology alteration of shamefast, from Old English scamf?st "bashful," literally "restrained by shame," or else "firm in modesty," from shame (n.) + -f?st, adjectival suffix (see fast (adj.)). Related: Shamefacedly; shamefacedness.
shamefaced, -fast. It is true that the second is the original form, that -faced is due to a mistake, & that the notion attached to the word is necessarily affected in some slight degree by the change. But those who, in the flush of this discovery, would revert to -fast in ordinary use are rightly rewarded with the name of pedants .... [Fowler]

1. There was a long silence, and my father looked shamefaced.: 沉默持續了很長時間，而我父親看上去面帶愧色。

2. And a While , the young man stood by , shamefaced , and downat - heel , submitting.: 年輕男人一直低頭站在那里,滿臉羞澀, 唯唯諾諾.

4. It might be very well for an unmarried young curate to be shamefaced in such matters.: 一個沒有結婚的年輕副牧師在這種事情上羞羞怯怯,這也許是正常的.

5. They glanced at him, shamefaced, yet in their eyes was an odd, triumphant defiance.: 他們看了他一眼, 慚愧, 在他們眼中卻是一個奇怪的, 勝利的蔑視.