This embarrassing prospect is so serious that some claim it prompted the Kremlin to discuss whether to pull out of the Council of Europe.

这个尴尬的景象如此严峻，甚至有人指出，这一情况将促使克里姆林宫就是否退出欧洲议会进行讨论。

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I know how embarrassing and difficult this is, as I've done it myself.

我知道这有多难堪，多棘手，因为我自己也干过同样的事。

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The Oxford English Dictionary is just embarrassing at this point.

这是一个牛津字典无比丢脸的时刻。

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Believe it or not, in our patent office -- now, this is embarrassing -- this is an institution responsible for protecting and promoting innovation -- our patent office receives more than 80 percent of patent applications electronically, then manually prints them out, scans them, and enters them into an outdated case management system.

WHITEHOUSE: Forum on Modernizing Government: Opening Session

Now that is important and it isn't just politicians who make that difficult, if I may be so bold, it's also your profession because if a politician says perhaps that's wrong we'll do it slightly differently, your attitude is this is a major and embarrassing u-turn, not actually a sensible modification.

BBC: News Online

Nor can Ms Merkel hope for a boost from Germany's staging of the World Cup this summer, which is becoming an embarrassing tale of leaking stadiums and ticket-allocation mishaps.

ECONOMIST: German reform