记忆方法
记住“mortify”这个单词可以通过“记忆法”：想象一个“mort”（意为死亡）的东西（如一个“t”形的柱子）在“ify”（动词后缀，表示使...成为）后摇动，给人一种痛苦或羞愧的感觉，就像死亡般的痛苦，所以“mortify”就是“感到羞愧或痛苦”的意思。
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词族 · mortify
中文词源
mortify 使羞愧
来自拉丁语mors,死亡，死的，词源同mortal,murder,-fy,使。即使死亡，使感觉要死的，比引申词义使羞愧。
英语词源
- mortify (v.)
- late 14c., "to kill," from Old French mortefiier "destroy, overwhelm, punish," from Late Latin mortificare "cause death, kill, put to death," literally "make dead," from mortificus "producing death," from Latin mors (genitive mortis) "death" (see mortal (adj.)) + root of facere "to make" (see factitious). Religious sense of "to subdue the flesh by abstinence and discipline" first attested early 15c. Sense of "humiliate" first recorded 1690s (compare mortification). Related: Mortified; mortifying.
权威例句
- 1. The first Sunday , in particular , their behaviours served to mortify me.
- 到了这里第一个星期, 她们的行为几乎把我气死.
- 2. To cause to feel chagrin ; mortify or discomfit.
- 使懊恼,使受屈辱,使窘迫.