discomfiting

英 [dɪsˈkʌmfɪtɪŋ]

美 [dɪsˈkʌmfɪtɪŋ]

v.  使困惑; 使窘迫; 使尴尬
discomfit的现在分词

现在分词：discomfiting　

COCA.41712

柯林斯词典

• VERB 使困惑;使窘迫;使尴尬
  If youare discomfited bysomething, it causes you to feel slightly embarrassed or confused.
  1. He will be particularly discomfited by the minister's dismissal of his plan...
     部长对他计划的不理会将使他特别尴尬。
  2. The opposition leader has regularly discomfited him in parliament.
     反对派领导人常搞得他在国会中下不来台。

双语例句

• The company denies the link, but the assertions are discomfiting.
  尽管华为否认与政府有关系，但来自美国方面的指控还是带来了困扰。
• In self-imposed exile in Austria, he enjoys discomfiting senior Kazakhstani officials by putting secretly obtained recordings of their conversations on the web.
  在奥地利的“自我流放”期间，他在网络上传秘密渠道获得的哈萨克斯坦高官谈话录音，以扰乱他们为乐。
• The discomfiting truth is that if we want things to get better better solar panels, better heart surgery protocols, better policing tactics, better schools or just better handbags then somebody will have to try out new things.
  令人烦心的事实是，只要想让事物变得更好改进太阳能板、改进手术操作、改进警察战术、改进学校教育，甚至包括改良手包就必须有人率先尝试新事物。
• And this is surely – even if discomfiting politically – the real threat to the planet, not responsible tourism, which can benefit the environment by encouraging and supporting its protection.
  这确实是地球面临的真正威胁，而不是负责任的旅游业，虽然这在政治上令人不安。旅游业可以通过鼓励和支持环境保护，从而推动环境保护的发展。
• The bus swerved around tight curves, greatly discomfiting the foreign tourists in the back seats.
  汽车在拐窄弯时斜向一边，让后座上的外国旅游者们极为不适。
• Last Friday's jobs report, though not discomfiting the markets, contained more bad news than good, and followed a slew of other disappointing indicators.
  7月2日公布的就业报告虽没有引起市场不安，但坏消息却多于好消息，而且此前还有大量其它令人失望的指标。
• That is discomfiting for economists, but we might at least take solace in the idea that even though there is no immediate logic to a belief in the right price, there is at least an evolutionary logic.
  这令经济学家感到困惑，但我们可能至少能从中获得安慰：即便对合理价格的信任没有直接的逻辑，但至少有一种进化的逻辑。
• The plantations are cursed for uprooting orangutan and other indigenous wildlife, but the monotonous verdant carpeting of plain and hill has a discomfiting beauty, reminiscent of the geometrical gigantism of the Petronas Towers.
  这些种植园因为抢占了猩猩和其它当地野生动物的栖息地而受到诅咒，但绵延数里、单调青翠的原野和山丘有种扰人心神的美，让人想起双子星塔巨大的几何造型。
• But what many new arrivals find more discomfiting are the obstacles that hard work alone cannot overcome.
  但是很多新来的人发现让他们更加为难的障碍是单单靠努力工作克服不了的。
• This of course would lead to the much-feared panic in the public, demands made against public officials to protect the tax-payer, and other such discomfiting results.
  这当然会导致居民的大恐慌，要求公务人员保护纳税人，还有其他这类刁难。