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Перевод: embarrassment

[существительное]
смущение; замешательство; конфуз ; запутанность ; затруднение; препятствие; помеха

Тезаурус:

1. Initially, Barlaston had been put to a series of uses by Wedgwood (and had been leased to the Bank of England during the Second World War), but in the 1950s it developed dry rot and become an embarrassment to the company.
2. Was William a love child, kept in the background because of the embarrassment, or were most of the records of his existence obliterated after his untimely death, to give solace to a stern and autocratic murderess?
3. But the clear intelligence failure which let Gen Noriega escape, to organise what could prove to be a prolonged guerrilla resistance, threatens to turn this latest military adventure into a political embarrassment.
4. But perhaps because she was thus secretly rejecting him and yet knew at the same time that he was in love with her, a sense of justice prompted her to help him in amorous efforts, to support him, to rid him of childish embarrassment.
5. Without a shred of embarrassment, the sentimental Tory takes out his hanky and invites us to watch him dripping crocodile tears of fond reminiscence for the days of that most honourable of men, so lauded by the Conservatives of his era, Mr Tony Benn.
6. Until a few weeks ago she had been scarcely aware of him except as a friendly and familiar face in class; but now, now she was very much aware of him - and he was very definitely aware of her; much to Erika's embarrassment sitting with her and Rosa at lunch, at the next desk in class, asking her out to the cinema and even, to Erika's amazement and, she suspected, his own, offering to help Paul with his homework - in the Nordern home, that is - an offer declined both by Erika and Paul, although Paul did corner Fritz in school and suggest to him that if he actually did the homework then he, Paul, would further his, Fritz's, courtship of Erika; Paul being shrewd enough to guess the motive behind Fritz's philanthropic gesture even though the square on the hypotenuse might remain a mystery to him.
7. This proposition, admittedly, is not without its difficulties when the sovereign is the same person in two or more realms where her ministers may tender divergent or opposing advice on the same subject; but so far the possibilities involved in these different capacities of the sovereign have not caused embarrassment in practice.
8. There is a tradition here, dating back to the days of "Go-Go County", of First Division embarrassment if not failure but Rangers survived the early onslaught and, before an all-ticket 5,997 crowd on a clear mild night, emerged as worthy winners on aggregate after a goalless draw.
9. There swiftly followed a post-modern embarrassment of Charly re-issues, soulboy standards, and a wave of remorse swept over Face readers the world over (well, London over).
10. There is a kind of innocence about this which makes the modern reader, coming upon it all sixty years after the event, squirm with embarrassment.
11. Anxious to exploit government embarrassment over the delay in its programme for electricity privatisation, he added: "Energy policy is too critical to the future of this nation to leave to the short-term whims of market forces.
12. The Labour Party's environment spokesman, Dr David Clark, described the government's decision as "a squalid attempt to save themselves from electoral embarrassment".
13. His staff are also involved in trying to find a solution to leaves on lines, BR's perennial embarrassment.