"It's rather embarrassing," he began, and paused.

“这很让人尴尬，” 他开始说道，又停顿了片刻。

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Nonetheless, he was continuously frustrated by his own, rather embarrassing, lack of success.

尽管如此，他自己的试验却一再受挫，没有取得过成功，使他困窘不已。

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However the LHC, which was commissioned to great acclaim in September 2008, closed down in a rather embarrassing puff of helium gas from its cooling system nine days later.

LHC于2008年9月建成，引来了一片欢呼。然而，运行九天之后，却不得不在其冷却系统的氦泄漏声中尴尬地关闭。

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Rather embarrassing stuff for a wannabe member of British high society.

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It's rather embarrassing for a government committed to cutting the cost of ministerial travel and evokes memories of John Prescott's infamous decision to let the car take the strain on a short journey between his hotel and the 1999 Labour conference in Bournemouth: except the man known as "Two Jags" did travel more than twice as far - 250 metres.

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Because a state bank, not the country itself, is in the firing line the government may see a court case as embarrassing rather than painful.

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