self-conscious
英 ['self'kɔnʃəs]
美
- adj. 自觉的
词态变化
副词: self-consciously;名词: self-consciousness;
英英释意
- 1. aware of yourself as an individual or of your own being and actions and thoughts;
- "self-conscious awareness"
- "self-conscious about their roles as guardians of the social values"- D.M.Potter
- 2. excessively and uncomfortably conscious of your appearance or behavior;
- "self-conscious teenagers"
- "wondered if she could ever be untidy without feeling self-conscious about it"
英文词源
- self-conscious (adj.)
- 1680s, "aware of one's action," a word of the English Enlightenment (Locke was using it by 1690), from self- + conscious. Morbid sense of "preoccupied with one's own personality" is attested from 1834 (in J.S. Mill). Related: Self-consciously; self-consciousness.
实用场景例句
- He's always been self-conscious about being so short.
- 他老为自己身材矮小而觉得难为情。
牛津词典
- The humour of the play is self-conscious and contrived.
- 这部剧的幽默是刻意而为的，而且牵强做作。
牛津词典
- She was self-consciously aware of his stare.
- 她意识到他在看她，感到不自在。
牛津词典
- I felt a bit self-conscious in my swimming costume...
- 我穿着游泳衣觉得有点害羞。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- Bess was self-conscious about being shorter than her two friends.
- 贝丝因比她的两个朋友个子都矮而感到很不自在。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- They were forged by them, moreover, into a self-conscious nation as early as the 10th century...
- 另外，早在10世纪，他们就被其锻造成了一个具有自我意识的民族。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- Putting the work together is a very self-conscious process.
- 把作品整个呈现出来是一个显示出强烈自我意识的过程。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- Students are usually too shy to talk and too self conscious to respond to the teacher.
- 学生们通常会因太害羞而不敢开口或不能对老师做出回应.
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