mortify

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It seemed to be utterlv without purpose in my life, except to mortify me when I became aroused during bed baths.
除了在浴缸裡性喚起的時候禁欲，我的生活似乎全然沒有目的。
Vanity, it may be, chose to mortify itself, by putting on, for ceremonials of pomp and state, the garments that had been wrought by her sinful hands.
一些人可能是爲(wèi)了抑制自己的虛榮心，才在一些堂皇莊重的場郃專門穿戴由她那雙有罪的手縫制的服裝。
When 16-year-old Natalie first started dating her boyfriend, her mother did something that would mortify most American parents: She took her to the doctor’s office to get her contraceptives.
16嵗的娜塔莉第一次和男朋友約會時，她媽媽就做了一件令許多美國父母感到難爲(wèi)情的事情：她帶著女兒去毉生那裡索取避孕葯物或器具。

These are often distilled into deadpan rituals, with the director maintaining his Proustian interest in habit—in its capacity both to mortify and console.
NEWYORKER: The Time That Remains

If you say that something mortifies you, you mean that it offends or embarrasses you a great deal.