出处：按学科分类—语言、文字 中国对外翻译出版公司《汉英成语词典》第190页（227字）
身份、名誉、地位都遭到败坏或丧失，例他一生奉公守法，却为了一个女子而挪用公款，以致身败名裂。
He had been a law abiding person up to the day when he brought ruin and shame on himself by embezzling funds for his woman friend．