ashamed

Compared meaning: feeling bad, embarrassed, or ashamed after doing something wrong (adjective).

比较义项：因做错事或行为不当而感到内疚、尴尬或羞愧，甚至因此丧失他人尊重（形容词）。

• guilty

  Guilty focuses on having actually done something wrong; it names moral responsibility for that wrongdoing, and can also describe legal responsibility, as in being found guilty of a crime.

  guilty 强调确实做错了事所产生的内疚感，是对自己行为负有的道德责任；也可以指法律上被判定有罪。

  He felt so guilty about cheating that he finally confessed to his teacher.

  他因为作弊感到非常 guilty，最终向老师坦白了实情。

• embarrassed

  Embarrassed is the mildest of the four: an uncomfortable, self-conscious feeling caused by an awkward or silly situation, which may not involve any real wrongdoing.

  embarrassed 是四个词中程度最轻的：因尴尬或愚蠢的场面而感到不自在、不好意思，不一定涉及真正的过错。

  She was embarrassed when she tripped in front of the whole class.

  她在全班同学面前摔倒时感到很 embarrassed。

• ashamed 本词

  Ashamed is stronger and more personal than embarrassed: it combines guilt with lowered self-respect, implying you judge your own past behavior as genuinely bad.

  ashamed 比 embarrassed 更强烈、更私人化：既包含内疚，又伴随自我评价降低，意味着你认为自己过去的行为确实不好。

  He was ashamed of how he had treated his best friend.

  他对自己曾经对待最好朋友的方式感到 ashamed。

• disgraced

  Disgraced describes a public loss of respect and reputation after a scandal becomes known; it is not a private feeling and is usually used before a noun, as in the disgraced senator.

  disgraced 描述的是丑闻曝光后在公众面前失去他人尊重和名誉，不是私人的内心感受，通常用在名词前面，例如“the disgraced senator（声名狼藉的参议员）”。

  The disgraced CEO stepped down after the fraud scandal made headlines.

  这位 disgraced 的首席执行官在欺诈丑闻登上新闻头条后辞职了。

All four follow doing something wrong. Guilty means you really did wrong, or are legally responsible. Embarrassed is mildest: just an uncomfortable feeling. Ashamed is stronger, judging your own behavior as bad. Disgraced means losing public respect after a scandal, not a feeling.

这四个词都和“做错事后的负面感受或后果”有关，但程度和侧重不同：guilty 强调确实做错了事而产生的内疚，也可指法律上的“有罪”；embarrassed 程度最轻，只是尴尬不自在，不一定涉及真正的过错；ashamed 比 embarrassed 更强烈，关乎对自己行为的负面评价；disgraced 则不是内心感受，而是因丑闻在公众面前名誉扫地，常放在名词前使用。