difficult
英['d?f?k(?)lt]
美['d?f?k?lt]
- adj. 困難的；不隨和的；執拗的
詞態變化
比較級:?more difficult;最高級:?the most difficult;
中文詞源
difficult 困難的
dis-, 不，非。facile, 簡單的，好做的，詞源同fact, efficient. 即不好做的，困難的。
英文詞源
- difficult
- difficult: [14] Difficult means literally ‘not easy’. It is a back-formation from difficulty [14], which was borrowed from Latin difficultās. This was a derivative of the adjective difficilis (source of French difficile), which was a compound formed from the prefix dis- ‘not’ and facilis ‘easy’ (whence English facile [15]).
=> facile - difficult (adj.)
- c. 1400, apparently a back-formation from difficulty. French has difficile, Latin difficilis. Of persons, "hard to please," from 1580s.
雙語例句
- 1. He had a reputation for being bloody-minded and difficult.
- 他為人刻薄、難相處是出了名的。
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- 2. I have a fair idea of how difficult things can be.
- 我大致了解情況會有多困難。
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- 3. It would be difficult to find two men who were more dissimilar.
- 很難找到彼此間差異更大的人了。
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- 4. There's no petrol, so it's very difficult to transport goods.
- 沒有汽油，因此很難運輸貨物。
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- 5. Adults need to live their own lives and that's difficult with children.
- 大人需要過他們自己的生活，但有了孩子就很難做到了。
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