But often these gestures are embarrassingly culture-bound

而往往这些手势极受文化限制,甚至造成尴尬的误解。

Her remarks were embarrassingly close to home.

她说的那些话很露骨而使人感到很尴尬.

She is embarrassingly emotional in public.

她在大庭广众前常激动得让人难为情.

Their possessions were embarrassingly few in comparison to those of older men.

同那些年纪比他们大的人相比,家产少得叫人难为情。

||1:ALMOST every recent Greek finance minister has been an Athens university economics professor moonlighting as a politician.||2:Yanis Varoufakis is no exception.||3:But unlike his predecessors, Mr Varoufakis has become a global celebrity, to the annoyance of many in Syriza, the leftist party in power.||4:To his critics, Mr Varoufakis's lifestyle—riding a powerful motorbike, spending evenings in chic bars and weekends at a smart island villa belonging to his wife—is embarrassingly close to that of the rich Greeks he castigates for avoiding taxes by stashing cash abroad.

||1:希腊近几任财政部长皆为希腊大学的经济学教授，业余职业是政治家。||2:雅尼斯·瓦鲁法克斯也不例外。||3:但与前几任部长不同的是，他已是全球瞩目的热门人物，惹来执政党激进左翼联盟中诸多人士的不满。||4:瓦鲁法克斯财长经常骑着飙劲十足的摩托车，夜晚沉浸在时尚酒吧，周末在妻子的智能沙滩别墅度过。在其批评家看来，这差不多是希腊富豪阶级的生活方式，而瓦鲁法克斯财长也严惩海外存钱避税的富豪阶级，这种矛盾的表现令人哭笑不得。

He also proposed an increase in the national-insurance contributions paid by the self-employed—though this was hastily, and embarrassingly , withdrawn after an outcry from newspapers and Tory backbenchers.

他还提出增加在个体国民保险税，虽然这很匆忙，也令人尴尬，但在报社和保守党后座议员的强烈抗议后就撤回了。

The BBC is cutting costs and re-examining the embarrassingly lucrative contracts of some of its stars.

BBC正削减开支，重审一些星级产业的利润丰富而尴尬的合同。

No Russian (or Soviet) leader had ever made the provocative trip; it caught the Japanese government embarrassingly off guard.

此前没有一个俄罗斯（或前苏联国家）的领导人敢做出这么激进的举动，这着实杀了日本一个措手不及。

And though they are still somewhat religious, they are not embarrassingly so.

尽管他们还是带有宗教色彩，但这并不让他们显得格格不入。

Embarrassingly , it also included trades with other parts of SocGen.

令人尴尬的是，它也包括与兴业其他部门的交易。

Somewhat embarrassingly , however, the two bears do not appear to have warmed to each other.

然而，让人有些尴尬的是，这两只大熊猫对对方似乎没什么兴趣。

The mere prospect of consumer lock-in is enough to make technology executives and their investors embarrassingly emotional.

如果仅仅是提出将客户锁定这样的目标，让很多技术执行官和投资人很尴尬。

But though those talks continue in private, a fight with Alibaba and its founder Jack Ma has played out in an embarrassingly public way.

虽然关于雅虎日本的谈判是在私下展开，但雅虎与阿里巴巴及其创始人马云的争吵却以令人难堪的方式呈现在公众面前。

Something I hear a lot is that a minimum viable product is by definition (embarrassingly ) minimal. How can you possibly charge for it?

我经常听到这样的说法，最小可行产品就是勉强可行的啊，怎么可以为之收费呢？

Back home, it has also produced embarrassingly large profits at banks that weathered the crisis well, such as Goldman Sachs.

在美国国内，它还让安然度过危机的高盛（GoldmanSachs）等银行产生了令人尴尬的巨额利润。

It's a simple question, really, but a cunning one, because the answers are so embarrassingly , voluptuously personal.

这的确是一个简单而又狡猾的问题，因为答案相当的囧，而且相当私密。

The affair has robbed an embarrassingly long list of supposedly sophisticated investors of their swimwear.

这一事件扯下了诸多所谓的精明投资者的游泳衣。

The number also highlights multiple failings in China's embarrassingly ineffective anticorruption campaign.

这一数目同样突显了中国在尴尬、无效的反腐倡廉工作中的多重失败。

Since 2005 there have been elections for the presidency, too, replacing the previous embarrassingly unanimous referendums.

自2005年开始，也有了总统选举，来代替以前让人难堪的意见一致的公民投票。

embarrassingly short of money

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