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

• Flaws in the system have created a breeding ground for financial scandals
  体制中存在的缺陷为金融丑闻的出现提供了土壤。
• A series of scandals caused the company to fall.
  一连串丑闻使得这个公司垮台。
• 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。
• You could see this in the Libor and foreign exchange scandals.
  你可以在伦敦银行同业拆借利率和外汇操控丑闻中看到这种现象。
• Rumours of financial scandals have come bubbling back to the surface
  有关财务丑闻的谣言接连不断地冒出来。
• 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。
• A string of scandals is obsessing America
  美国正被一系列丑闻所困扰。
• Have scandals helped or hindered your image?
  丑闻对你的形象有益还是有碍？
• Such scandals have not, alas, been absent
  这样的丑事，唉，也不是没有。
• This case is the latest in a series of British spy scandals.
  这是英国一连串间谍丑闻中最新的案子。