Embarrassment tells us we're in the presence of the excess, and that's why Beat writers court it.

难堪告诉我们自己是处在过度的状态，所以垮掉一代的作者追求难堪。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

In any case, since Brooks does constantly use these terms, I have to overcome embarrassment and at least at times use them myself.

无论如何，由于布鲁克斯来回来去地用这两个词，那我就必须不怕尴尬，至少也要自己运用一次，讲给你们听。

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Embarrassment is thematized in On the Road, and it's assigned what I think is a very interesting provenance.

难堪是《在路上》的主题，它被分配到我认为是一个很有趣的出处。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

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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