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negative feelings that people have about particular circumstances or characteristics that somebody may have 耻辱；羞耻 the social stigma of alcoholism 酗酒在社会上的恶名 There is no longer any stigma attached to being divorced. 离婚不再是什么丢脸的事。
Extra ExamplesHe still suffered the stigma of having been rejected for the army. 他仍然蒙受着参军遭拒之辱。 She had to overcome the stigma attached to mental illness. 她必须战胜精神疾病给她带来的耻辱感。 There is no stigma to being made redundant. 被当作冗员裁掉没有什么可耻的。 There is no stigma to losing your job. 失去工作不是什么丢脸的事。 There is still a lot of stigma attached to suicide. 自杀仍然被看作一种很不光彩的事情。 Wider knowledge of the disease removed some of the stigma from it. 对这种疾病更多的了解减少了一些耻辱感。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- social
- bear
- carry
- suffer
- …
- be associated with something
- be attached to something
- surround
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- stigma to
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biology 生物 the part in the middle of a flower where pollen is received （花的）柱头
Word Originlate 16th cent. (denoting a mark made by pricking or branding): via Latin from Greek stigma ‘a mark made by a pointed instrument, a dot’; related to the noun stick.