| 单词 |
gêne |
| 释义 |
‖ gêne2|ʒɛn| [Fr., f. OF. gehine torture (gehir to confess under torture): cf. OHG. jehan to speak, say.] Constraint, embarrassment, discomfort.
1817H. C. B. Campbell Jrnl. 17 Oct. in Journey to Florence (1951) 108, I dislike seeing such things in a crowd particularly in an English one. There is a certain gêne which they always occasion. 1853Lytton My Novel II. vii. xxi. 283 This will prevent a great deal of gêne and constraint. 1914Wodehouse Man Upstairs 257 The advent of an unbidden guest rarely fails to produce a certain gêne. 1953R. A. Knox Off Record p. ix, He is condemned to listen to one side of a telephone conversation, with something of the gêne which that exercise entails. |
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