abash

英 [ə\"bæʃ] 美 [ə\"bæʃ]

• 翻译

  vt. 使困窘；使羞愧；使局促不安

英 [ə\"bæʃ]||||||美 [ə\"bæʃ]

A

vt. 使困窘；使羞愧；使局促不安

abash

abash:

[14]

Abash

shares a common ancestry with

abeyance

[16], although the latter underwent an about-turn in meaning in the 17th century which disguises their relationship. They go back to a Latin verb

batāre

, meaning ‘yawn’o,r‘gape’. This was borrowed into French as

baer

, later

bayer

(it was the source of English

bay

‘recessed space’).

The addition of the prefix

es

- (from Latin

ex

-) produced

esbaer

, later

e(s)bahir

‘gape with astonishment’, whence, via the present stem

e(s)bass

-, came English

abash

, which originally meant ‘stand amazed’ as well as ‘embarrass, discomfit’. (

Bashful

is a 16thcentury derivative, with elision of the

a

-, which was first used by the dramatist Nicholas Udall.) Addition of the prefix

a

- to Old French

baer

, meanwhile, had given

abaer

‘aspire after’,a,n,dits noun

abeance

‘aspiration, desire’.

In legal terminology, this word was used in French for the condition of a person in expectationo,rhope of receiving property, but in English the focus quickly became reversed to the property,a,n,dits condition of being temporarily without an owner.

=> abeyance, bashful

abash (v.)

\\\\\\\"perplex, embarrass,\\\\\\\" early 15c., earlier \\\\\\\"lose one\\\\\\\"s composure, be upset\\\\\\\" (late 14c.), from Old French

esbaiss-

, present stem of

esbaer

\\\\\\\"gape with astonishment,\\\\\\\" from

es

\\\\\\\"out\\\\\\\" (see ex-) +

ba(y)er

\\\\\\\"to be open, gape,\\\\\\\" from Latin

*batare

\\\\\\\"to yawn, gape,\\\\\\\" from root

*bat

, possibly imitative of yawning. Related:

Abashed

;

abashing

. Bashful is a 16c. derivative.

1. The entire metropolitan center possessed a higha,n,dmighty air calculated to overawea,n,d

abash

the common applicant.

整个市中心区有着一种高傲的神气,好像故意要让一些前来寻找职业的普通人感到惶恐不安.

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2. Nothing can

abash

him.

没有什么事能让他脸红.

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3. When the child see all the room fille with stranger, he is much

abash

.

那小孩一看到满屋子都是陌生人, 感到非常局促不安.

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