1. 丑行;丑聞 A scandal is a situation or event that is thought to be shocking and immoral and that everyone knows about.
e.g. ...a financial scandal. 金融丑聞
2. 流言蜚語(yǔ);關(guān)于丑聞的傳言;謠言 Scandal is talk about the shocking and immoral aspects of someone's behaviour or something that has happened.
e.g. He loved gossip and scandal... 他喜歡說(shuō)三道四，散布謠言。 e.g. These mothers often abandoned their children because of fear of scandal. 這些母親經(jīng)常會(huì )因為害怕流言蜚語(yǔ)而拋棄自己的孩子。
3. 令人氣憤的事;不像話(huà)的事;可恥的行為 If you say that something is a scandal, you are angry about it and think that the people responsible for it should be ashamed.
e.g. It is a scandal that a person can be stopped for no reason by the police. 警察能無(wú)緣無(wú)故攔人，這真是令人憤慨的行徑。
scandal英英釋義
noun
1. disgraceful gossip about the private lives of other people