ignominious
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ADJ-GRADED 耻辱的;不光彩的;不名誉的;丢脸的
If you describe an experience or action as ignominious, you mean it is embarrassing because it shows a great lack of success....their ignominious defeat...
他们耻辱的战败
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Their soldiers had to retreat ignominiously after losing hundreds of lives.
损失数百人之后,他们的士兵被迫灰溜溜地撤退。
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- (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame
- Man...has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands"- Rachel Carso
- an ignominious retreat
- inglorious defeat
- an opprobrious monument to human greed
- a shameful display of cowardice
- Synonym: black disgraceful inglorious opprobrious shameful
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Act out an ignominious role in the scheme
在那个阴谋中扮演可耻的角色
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And the only foreseeable outcomes are triumph , glorious triumph , or abject , ignominious defeat .
而唯一可预见的结果就是胜利,一场欢欣鼓舞的胜利,抑或是卑怯,可耻的失败。
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He made one mistake and his career came to an ignominious end .
他犯了一个错误,他的事业就很不体面地结束了。
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Many thought that he was doomed to ignominious failure .
许多人认为他注定会极不光彩地失败。
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You will not even write your own ignominious name .
你甚至不能书写你可耻的名字。
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The marriage was considered especially ignominious since she was of royal descent .
由于她出身王族,这门婚事被认为是奇耻大辱。
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The UN were faced with an ignominious withdrawal or a long-term military presence .
联合国要么选择不光彩地撤军,要么选择维持长期的驻军。
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Many of their forays into genuinely competitive sectors have ended in ignominious failure .
他们很多进军真正有竞争性行业的尝试都以惨败而告终。
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Once again , she died an ignominious death .
她第二次不光彩地死去。
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CPAs take ignominious part in these frauds though they are praised as ' economy policeman ' .
在这些会计信息舞弊案件中,被誉为经济警察的注册会计师扮演了并不光彩的角色。
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Many observers think Nicolas Sarkozy is doomed to ignominious departure after just one erratic term in office .
很多观察家认为,他将在他这一离奇古怪的任期结束后黯淡地离开。
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That ignominious experience led the Tories to adopt inflation targeting , which has transformed Britain 's macroeconomic performance .
这段不光彩的经历使得保守党采取了设定通胀目标的方法,这让英国宏观经济表现得以改观。
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The government lost that one in ignominious fashion , with the jury returning an innocent verdict in all of two days .
美国政府灰溜溜地输掉了这场官司,两天内陪审团都判定无罪。
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Newspaper reporter bumped last year 's loser , lumberjack , for the ignominious distinction .
报社记者以其令人尴尬的特质,取代伐木工人成为今年的最差工作。
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Thus she will be a living sermon against sin , until the ignominious letter be engraved upon her tombstone .
这样她就成了告诫人们抵制罪恶的活训条了,直到那个耻辱的字母刻到她的墓碑上为止。
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What an ignominious destiny for medicine if its future turned into one of bestowing meagre increments of unenjoyed life !
如果医学未来只是起延长痛苦的生命的作用,那么它将的命运将多么可耻啊!
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I cannot ask freedom for myself while my comrades are already suffering in the ignominious prison of the Isle of Pines .
我的同志们已经在派恩斯岛上可耻的监狱里受苦受难,我不能为我自己要求自由。
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" Brevet ," said the President , " you have undergone an ignominious sentence , and you cannot take an oath . "
布莱卫,庭长说,您受过一种不名誉的刑罚,您不应当宣誓
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In1654 , a British expedition to capture Jamaica from the Spaniards suffered an ignominious defeat .
一六五四年,英国一支远征军奉命攻取西班牙的牙买加,败得很不光彩。
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With the strong intention of morals , Tacitus applied his mind to the modern times , The ignominious businesses within the confined scope and The troublesome and tedious themes .
基于强烈的道德目的,塔西佗致力于现当代史的写作,致力于狭窄范围之内的不光彩的事情与惹人生厌的单调乏味的题材。
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That is the kind of ambition that captures imaginations and headlines in the west , where the US 's century of dominance of the car industry has come to an ignominious end .
这一雄心壮志激发了西方的想象力,也登上了西方媒体的新闻头条。美国对汽车产业长达一个世纪的统治已带着耻辱走到了尽头。
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There are few dot-com era startups more ignominious than Webvan , the online grocery business that spent over $ 800 million in three years before collapsing in 2001 .
诞生于互联网泡沫时期的初创公司当中,最丢脸的或许莫过于Webvan。这家在线食品杂货零售商在短短三年之内就挥霍了8亿美元,最后却在2001年破产倒闭。
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Fear of slaughter by Indian warriors , coupled with Brock 's bold manoeuvres , resulted in a victory as brilliant for the British as it was ignominious for the Americans .
布罗克大胆用兵,加上赫尔害怕被印第安战士屠杀,令英军这一仗赢得非常辉煌,美军则败得非常可耻。