umbrage

英 ['?mbr?d?] 美['?mbr?d?]

近義詞offense

GRE暢通詞匯

1、umbr- + -age.
2、該詞的原始含義為：樹陰，陰影；后來引申為：生氣，不高興，不愉快；原始含義成為了古語。
3、臉色陰沉。

umbrage 憤怒，不快

來自拉丁語umbra,陰影，影子，詞源同adumbrate, umbrella.引申詞義憤怒，不快。

umbrage: umbrage: [15] Umbrage is one of a group of English words that go back ultimately to Latin umbra ‘shadow’. Indeed, it was originally used for ‘shade, shadow’ in English: ‘the light, and also … the false umbrage which the moon doth show forth’, Betham, Precepts of War 1544. The expression take umbrage ‘take offence’ arises from a metaphorical extension of ‘shadow’ to ‘suspicion’, which took place in French.

The word itself reached English via Old French umbrage from Vulgar Latin *umbrāticum, a noun use of the neuter form of Latin umbrāticus ‘shadowy’, which was derived from umbra. Other English words from the same source include adumbrate [16], penumbra [17], sombre, sombrero, umbel [16], and umbrella.
=> adumbrate, penumbra, sombre, sombrero, umbel, umbrella
umbrage (n.): early 15c., "shadow, shade," from Middle French ombrage "shade, shadow," from noun use of Latin umbraticum "of or pertaining to shade; being in retirement," neuter of umbraticus "of or pertaining to shade," from umbra "shade, shadow," from PIE root *andho- "blind, dark" (cognates: Sanskrit andha-, Avestan anda- "blind, dark"). Many figurative uses in 17c.; main remaining one is the meaning "suspicion that one has been slighted," first recorded 1610s; hence phrase to take umbrage at, attested from 1670s.

1. He takes umbrage against anyone who criticises him.: 不管誰批評(píng)他，他都心生憤懣。

2. I invited her because I was afraid ofgiving umbrage.: 我邀請(qǐng)了她,因?yàn)槲遗碌米锼?

4. He called me a lily - livered coward, and I umbrage at the insult.: 他說我是個(gè)膽小的懦夫, 這種侮辱讓我很生氣.

5. The pope himself had taken great umbrage at the book.: 教皇本人對(duì)這本書曾極為生氣.