scandal

【发音】

美 /'skændl/ 英 /'skændl/

【翻译】

1. n.丑闻

   英释:an event in which someone, especially someone important, behaves in a bad way that shocks people

【记忆】

scan(扫描) ＋ dal → 扫描时事， 揭露丑闻 → 丑闻， 丑事； 参考： Watergate Scandal 水门事件

【短语】

1. sex scandal : 性丑闻；桃色新闻

2. watergate scandal : 水门事件；水门丑闻

【例句】

1. It caused quite a scandal when he left his wife.

   他离开妻子成了一大丑闻。

2. The college has recently been involved in a drugs scandal .

   这所大学最近卷入了毒品丑闻。

3. He has been at the centre of a political scandal .

   他成了一桩政治丑闻的焦点。

4. a major scandal involving the government

   涉及政府的一桩重大丑闻

5. a series of financial scandals

   一连串金融丑闻

6. a sex scandal that ruined his reputation

   让他名誉扫地的性丑闻

7. They had already left the country when the scandal broke .

   丑闻爆出时他们已经离开了这个国家。

【同、近义词】

1. n.丑闻；流言蜚语；诽谤；公愤

   tale/personalities/

【同根词】

1. adj

   scandalous : 可耻的；诽谤性的

2. adv

   scandalously : 过分地；诽谤性地；令人愤慨地

3. n

   scandalmonger : 专事诽谤的人；散布丑闻者

4. vt

   scandalize : 使震惊；诽谤；使愤慨

   scandalise : （英）使感震惊；使愤慨；诽谤；使丢脸（等于scandalize）