【常用新聞英文語彙】很難翻譯的新聞英文用語 cringe (vi)


1.怕
Most parents would cringe at the sight of such things. 
大部份父母看到這種事情都會怕。

2. (望而)卻步
Such restaurants would undoubtedly make any self-respecting connoisseur cringe. 
這種餐廳鐵定會讓有品味的老饕望而卻步。
When the Angels rolled town last night, even the most enthusiastic Yankee fan had to cringe. 
當昨天晚上天使隊浩浩蕩蕩地進城時,連最有興致的洋基球迷也不得不卻步。

3.膽寒
His attitude makes me cringe and I worry what others think of him. 
他的態度讓我膽寒,我擔心別人對他會有不好的想法。

4.感到過意不去
I cringed inwardly when I failed to help him. 
我未能幫他的忙時內心感到過意不去。

5.覺得羞人
I cringe when I think of the poems I wrote then.
每次想到那時所寫的詩我就覺得羞人。

6.不敢恭維
She peppered her lectures with unscientific statements that made doctors cringe.
她的演說到處都是讓醫師不敢恭維的不科學陳述。

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