mortify 中文意思是什麼

音標 ['mɔ:tifai]
mortify 解釋
vt. 及物動詞 ,vi. 不及物動詞 1. 抑制(情慾等)。
2. 使悔恨,使感恥辱;傷害(感情)。
3. 【醫學】(使)患脫疽。
4. 【植物;植物學】生枯斑,壞死。

  1. The first sunday, in particular, their behaviours served to mortify me.

    到了這里第一個星期,她們的行為幾乎把我氣死。
  2. A sneer, however, whether covert or open, had now no longer that power over me it once possessed : as i sat between my cousins, i was surprised to find how easy i felt under the total neglect of the one and the semi - sarcastic attentions of the other - eliza did not mortify, nor georgiana ruffle me

    然而無論是明嘲還是暗諷,對我已失去了一度有過的影響力。我坐在兩位表姐妹中間,驚訝地發現自己對一位的完全怠慢,另一位半帶嘲弄的殷勤處之泰然伊麗莎傷不了我的感情,喬治亞娜也沒有使我生氣。
  3. Madam, he pursued, i have a master to serve whose kingdom is not of this world : my mission is to mortify in these girls the lusts of the flesh ; to teach them to clothe themselves with shame - facedness and sobriety, not with braided hair and costly apparel ; and each of the young persons before us has a string of hair twisted in plaits which vanity itself might have woven ; these, i repeat, must be cut off ; think of the time wasted, of - mr. brocklehurst was here interrupted : three other visitors, ladies, now entered the room

    我的使命是節制這些姑娘的肉慾,教導她們衣著要謙卑克制,不梳辮子,不穿貴重衣服。而我們面前的每個年輕人,出於虛榮都把一束束頭發編成了辮子。我再說一遍,這些頭發必須剪掉,想一想為此而浪費的時間,想」
  4. But how could she dare to awaken him, and let him know what he had been doing, when it would mortify him to discover his folly in respect of her

    但是她怎敢把他叫醒呢,要是讓他知道了他作過的事,讓他知道了他對她的一番癡情,他不是要追悔莫及嗎?
  5. Kyle ' s mother is carping, anxious, lethally meddlesome ; she takes a stand to raise awareness of conjoined twins, which seems intended just to mortify the person it ' s supposed to help, a school nurse who has a dead fetus attached to her head

    凱爾的母親愛挑刺,性情急燥,管起閑事來無所顧忌,她總愛向人們提起聯體人的事,她這樣做似乎就是為了使那位人們認為應受到幫助的人丟面子,也就是一位頭上帶有死胎聯體物的護士。
  6. Had he forced her to spend the night bowing to the ground, had he beaten her, or made her carry in wood and water, it would never have entered her head that her position was a hard one. but this loving despotmost cruel of all because he loved, and for that very reason tortured himself and herknew not only how to mortify and humiliate her, but of set purpose, to prove to her that she was always to blame in everything

    既然他強迫她夜夜作揖叩頭,既然他揍她,強迫她搬柴打水,而她連想也不會想到她的處境非常困難但是這個疼愛女兒的折磨者之所以至為殘忍,是因為他疼愛她而使他自己受折磨,也使她受折磨,他非但故意凌辱她,貶低她,而且向她表明,她在各方面都有過錯。
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