羞愧综合症

    Cringe可作名词也可作动词，是“畏缩、尴尬”的意思，attack是“攻击”。这个短语是什么意思呢？请看对话：

    A: I looked at my yearbook today.

    B: So are you feeling nostalgic?

    A: Not at all .... the way I used to dress and my haircut were so awful that it gave me a cringe attack.

    B: You might have been naive and awkward in your teens when you look back, but who wasn’t?

    Note: “Cringe” here means “a sudden feeling of embarrassment or distaste,” and “attack” has the meaning of “seizure by illness” as in “heart attack.” According to Urban Dictionary, this phrase means to “feel massively ashamed of past actions that you have done so that the suffered embarrassment tricks your body that you’re about to have a heart attack.”