scandalize
scandalize
(亦作 -ise)
verb
[with obj.]
(亦作 -ise)
verb
[with obj.]
- shock or horrify (someone) by a real or imagined violation of propriety or morality
使反感，使愤慨；使震惊
their lack of manners scandalized their hosts.
他们的无礼使主人吃了一惊。 - (Sailing)reduce the area of (a sail) by lowering the head or raising the boom
(航海)减小（风帆的）面积
- late 15th cent. (in the sense 'make a public scandal of'): from French scandaliser or ecclesiastical Latin scandalizare, from Greek skandalizein
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