| 单词 | difficulty |
| 释义 | difficulty (dɪfɪkəlti ) Word forms: difficulties 1. countable noun B2 A difficulty is a problem. ...the difficulty of getting accurate information. The country is facing great economic difficulties. 2. uncountable noun B1+ If you have difficulty doing something, you are not able to do it easily. Do you have difficulty getting up? The injured man mounted his horse with difficulty. Synonyms: hardship, labour, pain, strain 3. in difficulty phrase If you are in difficulty or in difficulties, you are having a lot of problems. You have to admit that you are, in fact, in difficulties. Rumours spread about banks being in difficulty. Quotations: Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubtApologia pro Vita Sua Difficulties are things that show what men areDiscourses Difficulty gives all things their estimationEssays Collocations: difficulty level The difficulty level varies wildly and many of the side-tasks are repetitive and dull. Times, Sunday Times Want to play at a higher difficulty level? The Sun The judges' scores are then multiplied up with the difficulty level. The Sun This well-balanced game provides just enough practice to give you the bug before cranking up the difficulty level. Times, Sunday Times The remainder were of a difficulty level that exceeded the scope of the current analysis. Times, Sunday Times The difficulty stems from the fact that underwater and airborne sensors use different kinds of signals. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The difficulty stems from numerous factors. ST This level of conceptual difficulty stems from indeed, seems, to have been intentionally inscribed within the selection of the signifier, signification. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Part of the difficulty stems from the fact that microeconomic studies come to different conclusions than macroeconomic studies which use aggregate data. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In past episodes of economic difficulty, it often required external voices to exert the discipline that politicians, left to their own devices, found difficult. Times, Sunday Times All of this has happened during a period of unprecedented economic difficulty. Times, Sunday Times Those reactions apparently become more extreme in times of economic difficulty - and these have been very difficult times. Times, Sunday Times But those who fear a more protracted period of economic difficulty are unlikely to be convinced. Times, Sunday Times Critics say that the sector has yet to be tested during a period of economic difficulty. Times, Sunday Times That occasionally human beings have to encounter difficulty, disappointment and frustration? Times, Sunday Times They don't seem the sort to encounter difficulties when they strap on their boots. Times, Sunday Times It encounters difficulties in relating to the emotional and imaginative life of humankind. ST But, despite the chorus of praise and continuing deluge of fan mail, he encounters difficulties with his next book. Times, Sunday Times It will restrict their options if they are encountering difficulties in meeting their outgoings, and could lead to the loss of their home. Times, Sunday Times Zoos around the world have had enormous difficulty in getting captive elephants to reproduce—and don’t even get zookeepers started on pandas. Smithsonian Mag Attempts to generalize his method to functions with more than two variables failed because of the enormous difficulty of the calculations involved. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This leads to enormous difficulty in accounting for resource usage. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 However, after the war, removing the paint proved an enormous difficulty, with the paint having scarred the stonework. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 There are enormous difficulties in arranging for students to go off site. Times, Sunday Times All the same, the ethical difficulties of removal never entirely disappear, although old plunder, like old money, develops a noble patina. The Times Literary Supplement A number of ethical difficulties keep rearing their ugly little heads in preaching. Christianity Today This argument also has practical as well as significant ethical difficulties. Times, Sunday Times This creates both practical and ethical difficulties. Times, Sunday Times We are sometimes brought to care about others with extreme difficulty. Times, Sunday Times (2016) On the return flight no such seating arrangements were available and his wife encountered extreme difficulty in attending to him. Times, Sunday Times (2014) This is a day of extremes: extreme driving (single-track roads), extreme weather (calm and sunny), extreme geography and extreme difficulty in compiling this puzzle. Times, Sunday Times (2009) It is accepted that the school was experiencing serious financial difficulty. Times, Sunday Times (2016) The link between financial difficulty and poor mental health is well established, according to the debt charity StepChange. Times, Sunday Times (2017) This has meant that my wife has had to give up work and we are now in financial difficulty. The Sun (2012) A company in financial difficulty would work out with suppliers how spending can be reduced. Times, Sunday Times (2010) Given that this mortgage account was the only account held with us, any signs of financial difficulty such as unpaid direct debits would not have been visible. Times, Sunday Times (2013) I have reserved the fundamental difficulty for last. Christianity Today In the prison context there was a fundamental difficulty in distinguishing between consensual and coercive relationships. Times, Sunday Times The fundamental difficulty with the defendant's policy was that it did not strike a fair balance between the rights concerned at all. Times, Sunday Times The inquiry chairman may, however, face a more fundamental difficulty. Times, Sunday Times The fundamental difficulty to nucleate anhydrous magnesium carbonate remains when using this non-aqueous solution. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 But the great difficulty is the need of surgeons skilled in plastic and orthopaedic surgery. Times, Sunday Times (2016) Space itself was knotted up, its convolutions pliable enough to be pressed through but only with the greatest difficulty. THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW (2001) Now Black will have great difficulty defending all his queenside weaknesses. Times, Sunday Times (2016) This is the great difficulty. The Sun (2016) With great difficulty he learned to restrain himself. The Broken God (1993) In part, the alarm bells highlight the difficulty of matching the success of last year's show. Times, Sunday Times The report also highlights the difficulty many people can face when managing their money, and criticises banks for their lack of awareness of the condition. Times, Sunday Times The dinner has highlighted the difficulty for the duke and duchess of how careful they should be about where their charitable donations come from. Times, Sunday Times His survey highlights the difficulties facing the sector, which generated sales of ¤79 billion (67 billion) in 2009. Times, Sunday Times The research also highlights the difficulties that many students have faced during their job search this year. Times, Sunday Times The following example will illustrate this difficulty clearly. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 However, though the foregoing examples illustrate a process of intentional back-formation, they illustrate the difficulty of avoiding collisions in definition when coining words by such processes. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Its tightly woven scenario illustrates the difficulty of portraying the growing financial crisis through interlocking stories about ordinary people. The Times Literary Supplement Three examples illustrate the difficulties of the genre. The Times Literary Supplement This case illustrates the difficulty of proving breach of fiduciary duty, or intentional infliction of emotional distress, by a pastor. Christianity Today The mainly 11 and 12-year-olds sailed through rounds of increasing difficulty, from avalanche and duplicity via rhapsody and negotiable to sensationalism and intermittent. Times, Sunday Times Challenge mode unlocks ten minor games at increasing difficulty levels. Times, Sunday Times Over the coming days, a sequence of encrypted clues of increasing difficulty will be released via the world's largest social network. Times, Sunday Times The end to post-study work visas, and the increasing difficulty of sponsoring highly skilled workers, are cases in point. Times, Sunday Times Increasing difficulty with swallowing or a feeling that food sticks on the way down - symptoms known technically as dysphagia - always need careful investigation. Times, Sunday Times Some courts have noted the inherent difficulty of supervising ministers in the performance of their duties, and in particular their counseling activities. Christianity Today The inherent difficulty of seeing what’s happening deep inside a volcano makes them especially mysterious. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This tweet, sent by a sports journalist yesterday encapsulates the inherent difficulty in arriving at firm conclusions to this type of scenario. Times, Sunday Times It also underlines an inherent difficulty in the sale of entrepreneurial companies. Times, Sunday Times This inherent difficulty may not be altered by an instructor. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Many were already worried about an event beset by logistical difficulties. Times, Sunday Times Modern weaponry and the logistical difficulties of fielding and maneuvering mass armies made a war of attrition virtually inevitable. Christianity Today But the logistical difficulties are immense and the chances of success slight. Times, Sunday Times It's easy to blame politicians for misjudgments and logistical difficulties since the virus emerged. Times,Sunday Times The commission spent 18 months examining this proposition, at great cost, and its 45-page decision notice goes into detail on the risks and logistical difficulties it would inevitably entail. Times, Sunday Times There was an obvious difficulty in managing such a body. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 His pioneering efforts encountered specific difficulties, and the treatment of addition was an obvious difficulty in the early days. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The piece has been recorded several times, but performed only occasionally due to the obvious difficulty of procuring such a large quantity of machines. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Despite the obvious difficulty of the job at hand, this peace seems to characterize this scene or even perhaps the community as a whole. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 For others, such as your son, there are more obvious difficulties such as clumsiness, poor motor co-ordination and muscle tone. Times, Sunday Times This has caused her particular difficulty as she travels for work and also runs a household. Times, Sunday Times A particular difficulty in the present context was the defence of change of position. Times, Sunday Times The retired university professor had particular difficulty with one bank recently after he said it didn't give him a customer number that would allow him to go through security. Times,Sunday Times Military charities face a particular difficulty. Times, Sunday Times It presented a particular difficulty, however. Times, Sunday Times Interviewing, mandatory identity and right-to-work checks and training pose difficulties for employers needing staff to begin work immediately. Times,Sunday Times Some processed foods, such as chocolate, contain naturally occurring nanoparticles, and distinguishing between them and those engineered by scientists could pose difficulties. Times, Sunday Times Many compositions pose difficulties in coordination, with figures such as hemiolas, syncopation, and fast unisons. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Experience goods pose difficulties for consumers in accurately making consumption choices. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In developing nations, access to vital registries, and other government run systems pose difficulties for poor families to record births and deaths due to a variety of reasons. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 When her employers found out about the blossoming relationship, one of her seniors warned of potential difficulties, she said. Times, Sunday Times There are many potential difficulties with the green tax programme. Times, Sunday Times The potential difficulties for outof-country challenges were well-known. Times,Sunday Times Over the weekend, a video surfaced which emphasised the potential difficulties. Times, Sunday Times You've an astonishing gift for manoeuvring around potential difficulties without others having a clue what you're up to. Times, Sunday Times He also vastly underestimated the practical difficulty of getting rid of the disgraceful practice of 'discards'. Times, Sunday Times The sarva shiksha abhiyan delineates the practical difficulty involved in the government's program of providing universal education among the downtrodden strata of society. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The practical difficulty with belts led to a different medium for physically transporting the charges: a chain of pellets. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 With banks categorising their loans by postcode, the practical difficulties of region-byregion policy are much reduced. Times, Sunday Times However, a doctor can explain any practical difficulties and the treatments they may not be able to provide. Times, Sunday Times But for any of us harbouring doubts about the need for nylon scaffolding around the knees, they present a difficulty as the warmer months - in theory - approach. Times, Sunday Times With the appetite these fish have, finding enough good food may present some difficulty. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The differences, however, do not present any difficulty in comprehension between speakers of these dialects, due to their close interaction. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 While hedgehogs can swim and can get out of natural ponds, anything with vertical stone sides presents a difficulty. Times, Sunday Times The question of non-figurative imagery of divinity presents a difficulty. The Times Literary Supplement They had failed to recognize the difficulty of some of the problems they faced. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 There was, however, a refusal to recognize the difficulties ahead on the part of the staff out there. Times, Sunday Times Organizations began to recognize the difficulties associated with forcing eco-industrial parks to coalesce and abandoned the idea. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Recognizing the difficulty of reaching this ideal, they valued the work of directors who came close. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In developing his craft, he recognized the difficulties of the photographic medium, such as the inability to capture the past and the difficulty of avoiding stereotyping. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The practice reflects the difficulties that developers are having selling in areas where there has been an overenthusiastic building boom. Times, Sunday Times The terms of the cash injection reflect the difficulties that have hit many small and midsized miners that not long ago were riding high. Times, Sunday Times And results have reflected that difficulty with the team losing all five of their matches since — scoring just once and conceding 13 goals along the way. The Sun Total sales were up 5.7 per cent in the first 18 weeks of 2016 but like-forlike sales fell, reflecting the difficulties many high street outlets are facing. The Sun The reasons for the changing sleeping arrangements partly reflect the difficulties that an ageing population has in getting a solid eight hours' sleep - particularly with a spouse who snores. Times, Sunday Times Some people also report difficulty with swallowing, bowel and bladder abnormalities, numbness and tingling, and cognitive dysfunction. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Most current users in summer 2007 report difficulty using the phones, with very short communication windows of one to two minutes and frequently dropped calls. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In both, the pilots reported difficulties and tried to turn back. Times, Sunday Times Tracers reported difficulties with it freezing and logging them out for prolonged periods. Times,Sunday Times Six regions reported difficulties with health, five over education and seven out of eight said housing was a problem. Times, Sunday Times This recommendation would greatly resolve the difficulty encountered in applying the current group exemption procedure (with its general supervision and control requirement) to denominations that are congregational in polity. Christianity Today To resolve this difficulty, first look at the subspace with three polarizations. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He should know the moral condition of every individual in the community and help each person resolve any difficulties. Christianity Today International investors put pressure on the euro because they did not believe that the heavily indebted economies of the eurozone would be able to resolve their difficulties on their own. Times, Sunday Times Hopefully this will resolve any difficulties. Times, Sunday Times Wobbles are different from a more serious difficulty. Times, Sunday Times It also means hiring private sector banks and lawyers to be on standby should an insurer get into serious difficulty. Times, Sunday Times Nonetheless, a more serious difficulty remained. The Times Literary Supplement Patron's swoop comes at a time when generous government support and cheap land have revived the fortunes of housebuilders, many of which fell into serious difficulty during the financial crisis. Times, Sunday Times Mediation would be a far better option than taking you to court where they would be in serious difficulty getting close to the amount they are claiming. The Sun All but one had severe difficulty in breathing. Times,Sunday Times All the seeds passed the first round without severe difficulty. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Bite symptoms include swelling and stinging pain around the bite wound, numbness of limbs and lip, severe difficulty in breathing, sweating profusely and blurred vision. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He wrote that the condemned would have severe difficulty inhaling, due to hyper-expansion of the chest muscles and lungs. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Zippy's unpredictable behavior sometimes causes severe difficulty for others, but never for himself. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 And at its best, the book demonstrates the unfairness of the female experience and the sheer difficulty of improving it. Times,Sunday Times Yes, size confers advantages in funding, procurement and brand development, but eventually these are offset by the sheer difficulty of managing an ever more complex and sprawling beast. Times, Sunday Times High house prices and the sheer difficulty of obtaining a mortgage makes getting started in the housing market much harder than a generation ago. Times, Sunday Times The sheer difficulty of finding a single truth. Times, Sunday Times In addition, the sheer difficulty of the climb forced the two mountaineers to use fixed ropes. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 I have tremendous difficulty with blusher for some reason, and this kit makes it a piece of cake. Times, Sunday Times I was speaking with a young pastor who was facing tremendous difficulty because he felt forsaken. Christianity Today The 2002-03 team found tremendous difficulty in state failing to win any of their three matches. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 However, there was tremendous difficulty securing new lead nations. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It tells the story of enormous poverty, of tremendous difficulty. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 We should not underestimate the difficulty of her achievement. The Times Literary Supplement He had, he admitted, underestimated the difficulty of turning round a traditional print institution. Times, Sunday Times The contrary view underestimates the difficulty of finding a target at night. The Times Literary Supplement People underestimate the difficulties of relocating. Times, Sunday Times Don't underestimate the difficulties of doing that. Times, Sunday Times The release underscores the difficulty of bringing suspected pirates to justice despite the presence of dozens of international warships in the area. Times, Sunday Times The revelation underscores the difficulty that ministers have faced with their attempts to help families through the economic downturn. Times, Sunday Times Salon's pending demise also underscores the difficulty of mounting a commercially successful on-line-only project. Globe and Mail Cooper underscored the difficulty of imaging terrain illuminated by high-incidence-angle light. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 困难 Japanese: 困難 |
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