1ADJ-GRADED [usually verb-link ADJ]忸怩的;害羞的;难为情的;不自然的 Someone who is self-conscious is easily embarrassed and nervous because they feel that everyone is looking at them and judging them. 忸怩的;害羞的;难为情的;不自然的
I felt a bit self-conscious in my swimming costume.
我穿着游泳衣觉得有点害羞。
Bess was self-conscious about being shorter than her two friends. [+ about]
I glanced down at my dress jacket a little self-consciously.
我不好意思地低头扫了一眼自己的连衣裙外套。
She was fiddling self-consciously with her wedding ring.
她局促不安地摸着婚戒。
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...her painful self-consciousness.
她令人看不惯的忸怩样
2ADJ-GRADED 有强烈自我意识的;高度自觉的 If you describe someone or something as self-conscious, you mean that they are strongly aware of who or what they are. 有强烈自我意识的;高度自觉的 [formal]
They were forged by them, moreover, into a self-conscious nation as early as the 10th century.
另外,早在10世纪,他们就被其锻造成了一个具有自我意识的民族。
Putting the work together is a very self-conscious process.
把作品整个呈现出来是一个显示出强烈自我意识的过程。
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The world which the book inhabits seems too self-consciously literary, too introverted.
该书所描绘的世界似乎过分刻意地追求文学性,过于内敛含蓄。
The place is as self-consciously trendy as they come.