mortify

常见例句

双语例句

• It seemed to be utterlv without purpose in my life, except to mortify me when I became aroused during bed baths.
  除了在浴缸里性唤起的时候禁欲，我的生活似乎全然没有目的。
• Vanity, it may be, chose to mortify itself, by putting on, for ceremonials of pomp and state, the garments that had been wrought by her sinful hands.
  一些人可能是为了抑制自己的虚荣心，才在一些堂皇庄重的场合专门穿戴由她那双有罪的手缝制的服装。
• When 16-year-old Natalie first started dating her boyfriend, her mother did something that would mortify most American parents: She took her to the doctor’s office to get her contraceptives.
  16岁的娜塔莉第一次和男朋友约会时，她妈妈就做了一件令许多美国父母感到难为情的事情：她带着女儿去医生那里索取避孕药物或器具。

权威例句

• These are often distilled into deadpan rituals, with the director maintaining his Proustian interest in habit—in its capacity both to mortify and console.
  NEWYORKER: The Time That Remains
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