mortify

常見例句

雙語例句

• It seemed to be utterlv without purpose in my life, except to mortify me when I became aroused during bed baths.
  除了在浴缸裡性喚起的時候禁欲，我的生活似乎全然沒有目的。
• 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.
  一些人可能是爲了抑制自己的虛榮心，才在一些堂皇莊重的場郃專門穿戴由她那雙有罪的手縫制的服裝。
• 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嵗的娜塔莉第一次和男朋友約會時，她媽媽就做了一件令許多美國父母感到難爲情的事情：她帶著女兒去毉生那裡索取避孕葯物或器具。

權威例句

• 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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