So, in a first blush, you might say, well, why don't we just take the first ionization energy?

当你在这个问题上第一次陷入尴尬境地的时候，你可能会说，我们为什么不取第一个电离能呢？

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It's just a fact that Milton is shockingly unembarrassed about making public all of his highest literary ambitions.

事实上弥尔顿对于把他的文学野心,公之于众一点也不尴尬。

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I've explained my embarrassment about using terms that I really have no absolutely no idea of the meaning of except that I'm told what the meaning of them is in the books that I am reading, which are the same books that you're reading.

我已经解释过了，用这些我完全不知道什么意思的词,真的很尴尬，除非有人告诉我他们是什么意思,就像这本书里说的那样,而我读的这本书，也就是你们现在也在读的。

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They felt acutely uncomfortable, embarrassed, conflicted, under a huge amount of stress.

他们觉得不舒服，尴尬，抵触，承受巨大的压力。

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So I'm guessing now, i won't make you show your hands, because it's probably embarrassing, but what is the state of your dorm rooms, your shared dorm rooms, at the end of the semester or the end of the school year?

我在想,我就不叫你们举手了,这挺尴尬的,到期末或者年末的时候,你们寝室卫生怎么样

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And this is why the humor-- why the damage is often a certain sort of damage involving things like embarrassment, sex, scatology, a banana peel, pie in the face, your pants fall down or something, where there's no real harm.

这就是为什么幽默-,所涉及的伤害通常都是,涉及尴尬，性，不雅语言，香蕉皮，摔到脸上的派，掉裤子之类的，这些情况没有造成真正伤害。

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