资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Shame \Shame\, n. [OE. shame, schame, AS. scamu, sceamu; akin to
   OS. & OHG. scama, G. scham, Icel. sk["o]mm, shkamm, Sw. &
   Dan. skam, D. & G. schande, Goth. skanda shame, skaman sik to
   be ashamed; perhaps from a root skam meaning to cover, and
   akin to the root (kam) of G. hemd shirt, E. chemise. Cf.
   {Sham}.]
   1. A painful sensation excited by a consciousness of guilt or
      impropriety, or of having done something which injures
      reputation, or of the exposure of that which nature or
      modesty prompts us to conceal.

            HIde, for shame, Romans, your grandsires' images,
            That blush at their degenerate progeny. --Dryden.

            Have you no modesty, no maiden shame? --Shak.

   2. Reproach incurred or suffered; dishonor; ignominy;
      derision; contempt.

            Ye have borne the shame of the heathen. --Ezek.
                                                  xxxvi. 6.

            Honor and shame from no condition rise. --Pope.

            And every woe a tear can claim Except an erring
            sister's shame.                       --Byron.

   3. The cause or reason of shame; that which brings reproach,
      and degrades a person in the estimation of others;
      disgrace.

            O C?sar, what a wounding shame is this! --Shak.

            Guides who are the shame of religion. --Shak.

   4. The parts which modesty requires to be covered; the
      private parts. --Isa. xlvii. 3.

   {For shame!} you should be ashamed; shame on you!

   {To put to shame}, to cause to feel shame; to humiliate; to
      disgrace. ``Let them be driven backward and put to shame
      that wish me evil.'' --Ps. xl. 14.