Difficulty
['dɪfɪk(ə)ltɪ] or ['dɪfɪkəlti]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the quality of being difficult; 'they agreed about the difficulty of the climb'.
(noun.) a factor causing trouble in achieving a positive result or tending to produce a negative result; 'serious difficulties were encountered in obtaining a pure reagent'.
(noun.) a condition or state of affairs almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring great effort to bear or overcome; 'grappling with financial difficulties'.
錄入:内丽--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The state of being difficult, or hard to do; hardness; arduousness; -- opposed to easiness or facility; as, the difficulty of a task or enterprise; a work of difficulty.
(n.) Something difficult; a thing hard to do or to understand; that which occasions labor or perplexity, and requires skill and perseverance to overcome, solve, or achieve; a hard enterprise; an obstacle; an impediment; as, the difficulties of a science; difficulties in theology.
(n.) A controversy; a falling out; a disagreement; an objection; a cavil.
(n.) Embarrassment of affairs, especially financial affairs; -- usually in the plural; as, to be in difficulties.
整理:玛米
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Arduousness.[2]. Obstacle, impediment, bar, obstruction, barrier, hinderance, trouble, perplexity, exigency, trial, dilemma, embarrassment, emergency, pinch, pickle, stand, dead-set, set fast, dead-lock, dead-stand, stand-still, horns of a dilemma, up-hill work, sea of troubles, peck of troubles, hard row to hoe, hard nut to crack.
整理:威尔伯
同義詞及反義詞：
[See DIFFICULT]
整理:米切尔
娱乐性解釋/意思：
This dream signifies temporary embarrassment for business men of all classes, including soldiers and writers. But to extricate yourself from difficulties, foretells your prosperity. For a woman to dream of being in difficulties, denotes that she is threatened with ill health or enemies. For lovers, this is a dream of contrariety, denoting pleasant courtship.
伊米莉亚整理
例句/造句/用法:
- The difficulty in distinguishing variable species is largely due to the varieties mocking, as it were, other species of the same genus. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- For these all follow the general principle, and having found that, we shall have no difficulty in discovering them. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- There will be no difficulty about this affair, Alexandros? 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- I understand the difficulty there is in your vindicating yourself. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- But here there was the difficulty of finding room, so many things having been taken in beforehand. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- You're very right, Sir,' interposed Ben Allen, just awake enough to know that he had spent his thousand pounds without the smallest difficulty. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Enough then of the perfect State, and of the man who bears its image--there is no difficulty in seeing how we shall describe him. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- The surplus water is best removed by centrifugal pumps, since sand and sticks which would clog the valves of an ordinary pump are passed along without difficulty by the rotating wheel. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- I said nothing about this difficulty until Sir Percival had been consulted on the subject of the desired delay. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- This made a difficulty. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- One side of the window was open, which I understand was quite usual in the summer-time, and he passed without difficulty into the room. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- His solution of this difficulty was a relay system. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Getting another boy with difficulty to volunteer, he launched out on his errand in the pitch-black night. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The freedom of choice which this allows him, is therefore much greater, and the difficulty of his task much more diminished, than at first appears. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- We had enormous orders and little money, and had great difficulty to meet our payrolls and buy supplies. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Difficulties arise when we try to apply this wisdom in the present. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Seriously hoping that all our difficulties may be settled without the loss of another life, I subscribe myself, etc. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- To avoid difficulties it is always us who do it. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- I am too ardent in execution, and too impatient of difficulties. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- And by reason of the employment of such vision in the past, Edison is now able to see quite clearly through the forest of difficulties after eliminating them one by one. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- People make much more of their difficulties than they need to do. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Men began to doubt whether the new engine could ever be made to accomplish what Watt claimed for it, but although he realized the difficulties the inventor would not allow himself to doubt. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- You must begin your improvements on this house, observed Elinor, and your difficulties will soon vanish. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- Turning to geographical distribution, the difficulties encountered on the theory of descent with modification are serious enough. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- I explain very carefully so that you understand and that you understand all of the possible difficulties and the importance. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- Lydgate's odious humors and their neighbors' apparent avoidance of them had an unaccountable date for her in their relief from money difficulties. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- He had confessed a taste for the pursuit of love under difficulties; here was full gratification for that taste. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- The father of one of his students was engaged in the manufacture of alcohol from beetroot sugar, and Pasteur came to be consulted when difficulties arose in the manufacturing process. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Having got over my difficulties with the ladies, I found more difficulties waiting for me when I went back to my own room. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- But on Friday night he must be in town, having a Ladies' Charity, in difficulties, waiting to consult him on Saturday morning. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
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