| 单词 | in difficulties |
| 释义 | > as lemmasin difficulties c. A difficult, awkward, or problematic situation. Frequently in in difficulties: in trouble, spec. (originally euphemistic) experiencing financial problems. Cf. to get into difficulties at Phrases 2. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > adversity > [noun] > tribulation, trouble, or affliction teeneOE harmOE sourc1000 trayOE angec1175 wosithc1200 ail?c1225 barrat?c1225 misease?c1225 passion?c1225 troublec1230 sorenessc1275 grievancea1300 cumbermentc1300 cumbering1303 thro1303 angera1325 strifea1325 sweama1325 encumbrancec1330 tribulationc1330 threst1340 mischiefa1375 pressc1375 unhend1377 miseasetya1382 angernessc1390 molestc1390 troublancec1400 notea1425 miseasenessc1450 cumber?a1513 tribule1513 unseasonableness?1523 troublesomeness1561 tribulance1575 tine1590 trials and tribulations1591 pressure1648 difficulty1667 hell to pay1758 dree1791 trial and tribulation1792 Queer Street1811 Sturm und Drang1857 a thin time1924 shit1929 crap1932 shtook1936 the world > action or operation > difficulty > [noun] > difficult state of things > predicament or straits needfulnessc1350 kankedortc1374 pressc1375 needfultya1382 briguec1400 brikec1400 plightc1400 taking?c1425 partyc1440 distrait1477 brakea1529 hot water1537 strait1544 extremes1547 pickle1562 praemunire1595 lock1598 angustiae1653 difficulty1667 scrape1709 premune1758 hole1760 Queer Street1811 warm water1813 strift1815 fix1816 plisky1818 snapper1818 amplush1827 false position1830 bind1851 jackpot1887 tight1896 squeeze1905 jam1914 1667 News from Dunkirk-House (single sheet) I am as innocent from Corruption, as from any disloyal thoughts, which after near thirty years service of the Crown, in some difficulties and distress, I did never suspect would have been objected to me in mine Age. a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 200 The King was under no difficulties by any thing they had done. 1797 E. Inchbald Wives as they Were ii. i. 37 I have got poor Mandred into a difficulty, and it is my duty to get him out of it. 1831 F. A. Kemble Jrnl. in Rec. Girlhood (1878) III. 68 Mr Brunton..is in ‘difficulties’ (civilized plural for debt). 1861 S. Smiles Lives Engineers II. 142 A serious difficulty occurred between him and his wife on this very point, which ended in a separation. 1904 W. B. Yeats Let. July (1994) III. 623 A returned emigrant, who helps his old sweetheart out of a difficulty by insisting on losing money at cards to her husband. 2010 D. Smith Age of Instability xii. 117 Chancellor Alistair Darling..was told a major British bank was in difficulties. < as lemmas |
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