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Self Conscious I Ly Describe Aware Feel One's Adj Graded

英语单词 self-conscious
英美音标 英 美
中文释义 adj.自觉的;难为情的;不自然的
英语例句 (1) In secondary school, I was always self-conscious about my height.
中文例句 (1) 在中学,我总是为我的身高感到难为情。
vocabulary简明 Use the adjective self-conscious to describe someone who is ill at ease or uncomfortable with himself. A self-conscious person might worry about how he looks or whether he's saying the right things.
vocabulary扩展 Being self-conscious goes beyond just being aware of yourself — when you're self-conscious, you constantly question the way you appear to others. You might feel self-conscious when you stand in front of a group to give a speech, or when you're trying out for a movie or a play. The word first meant "conscious of one's own action" when it emerged in the 1680's, and by 1830's it had come to mean "preoccupied with one's own personality."
柯林斯解释
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[ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]忸怩的;害羞的;难为情的;不自然的 Someone who is self-conscious is easily embarrassed and nervous because they feel that everyone is looking at them and judging them.
  [usu v-link ADJ]
  • I felt a bit self-conscious in my swimming costume...

    我穿着游泳衣觉得有点害羞。

  • Bess was self-conscious about being shorter than her two friends.

    贝丝因比她的两个朋友个子都矮而感到很不自在。

self-consciously
  • I glanced down at my dress jacket a little self-consciously...

    我不好意思地低头扫了一眼自己的连衣裙外套。

  • She was fiddling self-consciously with her wedding ring.

    她局促不安地摸着婚戒。

self-consciousness
  • ...her painful self-consciousness.

    她令人看不惯的忸怩样

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[ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]有强烈自我意识的;高度自觉的 If you describe someone or something as self-conscious, you mean that they are strongly aware of who or what they are.
  [FORMAL 正式]
  • They were forged by them, moreover, into a self-conscious nation as early as the 10th century...

    另外,早在10世纪,他们就被其锻造成了一个具有自我意识的民族。

  • Putting the work together is a very self-conscious process.

    把作品整个呈现出来是一个显示出强烈自我意识的过程。

self-consciously
  • The world which the book inhabits seems too self-consciously literary, too introverted...

    该书所描绘的世界似乎过分刻意地追求文学性,过于内敛含蓄。

  • The place is as self-consciously trendy as they come.

    这个地方非常有意识地追求时髦。

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