umbrage是什么意思_umbrage怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

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.

词态变化

4. He called me a lily - livered coward, and I umbrage at the insult.: 他说我是个胆小的懦夫, 这种侮辱让我很生气.

take umbrage at 被 ... 触怒(...

give umbrage to someone 惹怒某人，得罪或冒犯...

give umbrage 触怒; 使生气, 使...

cause umbrage 使(某人)生气...

take umbrage over 感到在…上受侮辱或委...

cause umbrage to 使(某人)生气...

take umbrage about 被 ... 触怒(...

give umbrage to 使(某人)生气，惹怒...

take umbrage 生气, 不愉快

give umbrage 惹怒, 使生气

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1、umbr- + -age.
2、该词的原始含义为：树阴，阴影；后来引申为：生气，不高兴，不愉快；原始含义成为了古语。
3、脸色阴沉。