Nuisance
['njuːs(ə)ns] or ['nusns]
解释:
(noun.) (law) a broad legal concept including anything that disturbs the reasonable use of your property or endangers life and health or is offensive.
录入:门罗--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) That which annoys or gives trouble and vexation; that which is offensive or noxious.
校对:南森
同义词及近义词:
n. Annoyance, plague, bane, infliction, curse, scourge, pest.
整理:塔尼娅
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Offence, annoyance, plague, pest, trouble
ANT:Gratification, blessing, pleasure, delight, benefit
艾莉森编辑
解释:
n. that which annoys or hurts: that which troubles: that which is offensive.—n. Nū′isancer.
黛博拉校对
例句:
- I was a nuisance, an incumbrance, and a pest. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
- Government is then at once irrelevant and mischievous--a mere obstructive nuisance. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- It is a nuisance under one's very nose. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- Again and again he crosses and obscures the disc I want always to see clear; ever and anon he renders me to you a mere bore and nuisance. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- I have just one word to say of the whole tribe; they are a nuisance. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- It's an awful nuisance in the bed at night. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
- We have never been much trouble to a Consul before, but we have been a fearful nuisance to our Consul at Beirout. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- Education has always been a considerable nuisance to the conservative intellect. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- These people are a great nuisance, box-keeper, and they want to make us believe that we have no right to sit in our own box! 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- The smoke and cinder nuisance with them has been solved. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- Franking a letter for some fool or another: such a nuisance! 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- Small cutters are a nuisance; hand-power cutters are out of the question. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
- In this first engine the steam had been allowed to escape into the air with a loud, hissing noise, which frightened horses and cattle, and was generally regarded as a nuisance. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- But instead he made a fight for his empire; he was defeated by his recalcitrant subjects, caught, and shot as a public nuisance in 1867. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- It was a nuisance to have them there but it was a comfort that they were no bigger. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
- In this place I may as well jot down a chapter concerning those necessary nuisances, European guides. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- That they are not (or need not be, if properly constructed) nuisances to the public. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
手打:西尔维亚