umbrage

英 [ˈʌmbrɪdʒ]

美 [ˈʌmbrɪdʒ]

n.  树荫；（成荫的）簇叶

GRE

BNC.35478 / COCA.26938

习惯用语

n.

take umbrage (at sth)
• 认为受到冒犯（或羞辱）；（无故）感到不安
  to feel offended, insulted or upset by sth, often without a good reason

柯林斯词典

• PHRASE 愤懑；不快；生气
  If you say that a persontakes umbrage, you mean that they are upset or offended by something that someone says or does to them, often without much reason.
  1. He takes umbrage against anyone who criticises him.
     不管谁批评他，他都心生愤懑。

英英释义

noun

• a feeling of anger caused by being offended
  1. he took offence at my question
  Synonym:offenseoffence

双语例句

• He's like you, forever taking umbrage about something.
  他象你，总会为了什么事生气。
• The study was to simulate the condition of light climate and research the function that umbrage hazard in shelter forest.
  模拟林内光气候状况，探讨防护林林下的遮荫胁地效应。
• They take umbrage at the suggestion there is something wrong with success on a grand scale.
  对于巨大成功有什么不对劲的说法，他们表示不齿。
• They're liable to take umbrage if we don't invite them.
  如果我们不邀请他们，他们会生气的。
• Although Jeff was given to lying, he never took umbrage at being accused of it.
  尽管杰克喜欢撒谎，可别人为此指责他时他从不见怪。
• He takes umbrage against anyone who criticises him.
  不管谁批评他，他都心生愤懑。
• It has tried to deepen relations with China and other Asian powers, even at the cost of American umbrage.
  它一直在努力深化与中国及其他亚洲大国之间的关系，即便这让美国感到不满。
• Everything gives umbrage to a tyrantny.
  所有事情都使专制君主生气。
• Even in hot summer, Yuanzhen cows can embrace coziness and coolness under free umbrage outside and in the cowshed, with the spray nozzles and electronic fan to maintain the temperature.
  外出散步时，源真奶牛可以在灌木树下遮阴乘凉；留在牛舍内也同样有喷淋器、电风扇降温避暑，炎炎夏日怡然自得。
• While I certainly understand the frustration behind many of the shirt's points, I myself found the tone of the T-shirt's message offensive and can see why some Chinese took umbrage.
  虽然我很理解在T恤衫上的话的背景给外国人带来的沮丧，但我也感觉到那些话是得罪人的，也明白为什么有些中国人看了会心中不快。