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Перевод: embarrass
[глагол] смущать; приводить в замешательство; конфузить; затруднять; стеснять; запутывать; обременять
Тезаурус:
- All the sporting figures who appear on the programme - and they include most major stars - know they can trust Coleman and that he will not embarrass them.
- Given the propensity of Abu Nidal (whose real name is Sabri el-Banna) to embarrass the Palestine Liberation Organisation's chairman, Yasser Arafat, the statement - which was not typed on Abu Nidal's "Fatah Revolutionary Council" notepaper - appeared to be timed to coincide with the attampts of the Egyptian President, Hosni Mubarak, to involve the Israelis in talks with pro-PLO Palestinians.
- The unions hope to embarrass Kenneth Clarke, Secretary of State for Health, with tomorrow's lobby and believe that many Tories at the conference back their call for an increased offer.
- Supporters of civil disobedience, notably a loose, unholy alliance of Scottish Nationalists and the Militant Tendency -both out to embarrass law-abiding Labour councils as much as the Government - are adamant that a mass non-payment resistance is being mobilised, particularly on Scotland's huge, outer-city housing estates.
- I won't embarrass the shop by naming names, but they had only two in stock, it turned out.
- The satirical phrase used to embarrass the "Action Men" is that they have the "John Wayne syndrome"; the fact it is Wayne rather than Rambo who is used to ridicule them gives a clue that it tends to be the older members of the force who use the term to describe the exuberant younger policemen.
- If I went in, he would insist on cutting my hair himself and embarrass me by telling those waiting that he could remember cutting my first curls.
- "Pray, who undressed you?" one wit inquired, hoping to embarrass her.
- I'll be at ringside, I'll embarrass him into fighting me.
- "The movement can always use secret information, to bring pressures to bear, to embarrass the authorities.
- He didn't want to embarrass the poor woman.
- The former prime minister's intervention was designed to embarrass Mr Major.
- It is a private body with no power other than to embarrass.
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