scandals

英 [ˈskændlz]

美 [ˈskændəlz]

n.  丑行; 使人震惊的丑事; 丑闻; 关于丑行的传言(或报道); 可耻的行为(或态度等); 不可原谅的行为(或态度等)
scandal的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 丑行;丑闻
  Ascandalis a situation or event that is thought to be shocking and immoral and that everyone knows about.
  1. ...a financial scandal.
     金融丑闻
• N-UNCOUNT 流言蜚语;关于丑闻的传言;谣言
  Scandalis talk about the shocking and immoral aspects of someone's behaviour or something that has happened.
  1. He loved gossip and scandal...
     他喜欢说三道四，散布谣言。
  2. These mothers often abandoned their children because of fear of scandal.
     这些母亲经常会因为害怕流言蜚语而抛弃自己的孩子。
• N-SING 令人气愤的事;不像话的事;可耻的行为
  If you say that something is ascandal, you are angry about it and think that the people responsible for it should be ashamed.
  1. It is a scandal that a person can be stopped for no reason by the police.
     警察能无缘无故拦人，这真是令人愤慨的行径。

双语例句

• Such scandals have not, alas, been absent
  这样的丑事，唉，也不是没有。
• He seemed floored by a string of scandals.
  他似乎被一连串的丑闻搞得茫然失措。
• I'm sick of reading headlines involving the Kennedys in sex scandals.
  关于肯尼迪家族性丑闻的新闻标题都让我读得腻烦了。
• Both countries have experienced food-related scandals in the past.
  中美两国过去都曾经历过与食品相关的丑闻。
• A string of scandals is obsessing America
  美国正被一系列丑闻所困扰。
• After all, there have been no major scandals, collapses or arrests for months.
  毕竟，银行业已经数月没有发生丑闻、破产或者被捕事件了。
• But banking scandals and plunging oil prices devastated the local economy and the job market.
  可是一连串银行丑闻和低迷不振的油价对当地经济与就业市场造成重创。
• Congress's response to recent bribery scandals has been to impose footling restrictions on lobbyists.
  国会对于近期行贿丑闻的回应是给说客强加了琐细的限制条款。
• A series of scandals caused the company to fall.
  一连串丑闻使得这个公司垮台。
• But some things have been surprisingly unaffected by the backlash against corporate scandals.
  不过，令人惊异的是，对公司丑闻的强烈反对并没有影响到某些事情的发展。