Usages of la vergüenza
A él le da vergüenza hablar en público.
It embarrasses him to speak in public.
¿Podrías leer el cuento? A mí me da mucha vergüenza.
Could you read the story? It embarrasses me a lot.
Me dio vergüenza su hipocresía, como si hubiera olvidado su propio desprecio.
His hypocrisy embarrassed me, as if he had forgotten his own disdain.
¿Sentirá vergüenza ajena? Es más, ¿estará loco?
Could he be feeling secondhand embarrassment? What's more, could he be crazy?
Sentimos vergüenza ajena y, por si fuera poco, empezamos a bostezar.
We felt secondhand embarrassment, and as if that weren't enough, we started to yawn.
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