中英之鑒 中式英語(yǔ)之鑒28

　　[誤] I had not expected that this shameful woman should flirt with her best friend's husband.

　　[正] I had not expected that this shameless woman should flirt with her best friend's husband.

　　注：shameful 通常指某事物是“可恥的，丟臉的”，而 shameless 表示 having or showing no feeling of shame;

　　immodest or impudent,它一般用來(lái)指人“不知羞恥的，不要臉的”或“傷風(fēng)敗俗的”。

　　原文也可譯為：It's shameful that the woman should flirt with her best friend's husband.