单词 | troublesome |
释义 | troublesometroub‧le‧some /ˈtrʌbəlsəm/ ●○○ adjective Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatorwhen a fact or situation causes problems► cause/create/pose a problem Collocations to cause a problem that has to be dealt with: · You would be the only woman on a staff of over thirty men, which could create problems.· Both parents and teachers are worried about the problems posed by drugs.cause/create/pose a problem for: · Rebecca was frequently late for work, which caused problems for her colleagues.· Rising inflation could pose a major problem for the government. ► make life difficult to cause problems for someone and make it difficult or inconvenient for them to do what they want to do: · Petty arguments between staff have made the manager's life difficult.make life difficult for: · The rail strikes are making life increasingly difficult for people who have to travel into London every day. ► present a problem/difficulty if an activity or a plan presents a problem , there is a problem connected with it that has to be dealt with: · Constructing a highway in this area would present enormous difficulties.present a problem/difficulty for: · Live television programmes present special problems for the broadcaster.present somebody with a problem/difficulty: · Britain's relationship with other members of the European Union presents Blair with problems, just as it did for the Tories. ► troublesome something that is troublesome keeps causing problems over a period of time: · The infection can be particularly troublesome if it affects the lungs or throat.· The plant is regarded as a troublesome weed in rice fields. ► be a headache informal to cause problems over a period of time that are difficult to deal with: · Messy walkways and picnic tables are just some of the headaches caused by the hundreds of ducks that gather by the lake.be a headache for: · Censorship is always a constant headache for newspapers in the republic.give somebody a headache: · The scandal has given the minister a very public headache. ► plague if difficulties, illnesses, doubts, problems etc plague someone, there are a lot of them and they keep causing trouble for a long time: · Social problems plague these low-income communities.· The area is plagued by soil erosion and flooding. ► dog if a problem or bad luck dogs someone or something, it keeps causing trouble for a long time and prevents them from succeeding: · The team has been dogged by injury all season.· Zambia had none of the heritage of war and violence that dogged, say, Kenya or Zimbabwe. COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB► more Word family· However, a new, earlier and potentially far more troublesome deadline will arise.· Although urinary incontinence may be no more than a nuisance in some women, for many it is far more troublesome.· Some also fear that efforts to fix the problem will just create more troublesome models.· Dealing with untraceable shareholders under the compulsory sale procedures is more troublesome.· Yet that was not the worst. More troublesome still was the fact that we did not ever feel apart.· Given the growth in cross-border flows, this is likely to become more troublesome.· The second question, the proper ambit of the provocation defence, is more troublesome. ► most· The third, and most troublesome, problem is the interaction of various accessories.· The missile defence issue is without question the most troublesome, time-consuming and potentially dangerous item on the current international agenda.· Both made their error at the treble which was by far the most troublesome obstacle.· The day before the release, Bowley fished the largest and most troublesome of his finned friends from the tank.· The cigarette ban will be most troublesome for smokers on long train journeys.· Left alone, even the most troublesome among us will eventually fall over dead. ► particularly· The city also had the Army Reserve load some particularly troublesome snow on to trucks and take it to a vacant steelmaking facility. WORD FAMILYadjectivetroubledtroublesometroublingnountroubleverbtrouble causing problems, in an annoying way: a troublesome child troublesome itching |
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