Some women find it difficult or embarrassing to request a prescription from their doctors or to get the medication in time.

VOA: standard.2010.03.22

And this embarrassing episode is just the beginning of a sequence of embarrassing events that will occur as the Israelites move from Egypt towards the land that's been promised to them.

这令人尴尬的一幕只是,一系列尴尬事件的开始,这些都将发生在他们从埃及到应许之地的路上。

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Lady in red" , like, to me, which was a bit embarrassing.

对着我唱，“我的红衣女士”，那让我有点尴尬。

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"We cannot wage a perpetual campaign where the only goal is to see who can get the most embarrassing headlines about the other side.

VOA: standard.2010.01.28

This puts the British Government in an embarrassing situation of owning a failing mortgage lender, so they've got to now be the government collecting on all these mortgages; it's a mess.

承认其银行抵押贷款出现严重问题,着实令英国政府颜面扫地,所以现在不得不由政府出面,收购所有这些抵押贷款,真是一团乱

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It would be embarrassing,I think," . "I would be objecting to that because at a certain point security begins to get into your personal life,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.30

And this is called the Pratfall Effect, that our liking for the competent person grows when they make a mistake, when they do something embarrassing, when they have a failure experience. Okay?

心理学上，这叫“失态效应，我们对有能力之人的喜爱之情再次升华,当他们犯错，出洋相，经历很衰的事情时？

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"We would like to make a deal, but we would like to make the right kind of deal. I mean,this is not about embarrassing anybody politically.

VOA: standard.2009.08.12

Sometimes there are completely new emphases and the story can come out to be a very, very different story. 1 and 2 Chronicles are a retelling and a reworking of much of the material from Genesis through 2 Kings, and it cleans up a lot of the embarrassing moments.

复述的故事会有全新的侧重点，可能和原来的故事之间,存在很大的差别，《历代志》上下就是,对从《创世记》到两部《列王纪》中大量材料的复述和,再加工，它清除了很多令人窘迫的故事。

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The Liberal Democratic Party suffered an embarrassing defeat in the Tokyo Metropolitan Election a few weeks ago, and it is expected to lose its half-century hold on Japanese politics in the August 30 general election.

VOA: standard.2009.07.27

They wanted to eliminate the stigma it used to be embarrassing to borrow at the discount window because the discount rate would because it would be an admission that the bank is in trouble.

他们希望消除这种瑕疵,过去在贴现窗口借钱,常常被认为是尴尬的事,因为贴现率将,因为这将是处于困境的银行的,进入权。

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