| 单词 | inconvenient |
| 释义 | inconvenient (once / 425 pages) adj Inconvenient things are difficult or annoying to do. If someone asks you to help move a couch on a Saturday when you have tickets to a game, that's an inconvenient request. If you have to go to the bathroom very badly just as a test is starting, that's inconvenient. If the movie projector breaks in the middle of a movie, that's inconvenient. Other times, things are inconvenient just because they're kind of a pain. It’s inconvenient of your mom to ask you to do chores just as you're ready to go out with friends. Inconvenient things get in the way of what we really want to do. WORD FAMILYinconvenient: inconvenience, inconveniently+/convenience: conveniences/convenient: convenience, convenienter, convenientest, conveniently, inconvenient/inconvenience: inconvenienced, inconveniences, inconveniencing USAGE EXAMPLESThat list would be topped by Davis Guggenheim’s An Inconvenient Truth, about Al Gore’s mission to get the planet to wake up to global warming. The Guardian(Jan 02, 2017) It is also right to speak truth, even when it may be inconvenient, to our closest of allies. Washington Post(Dec 31, 2016) The inconvenient fact is, actual voter fraud is vanishingly rare in American politics. Washington Post(Dec 27, 2016) 1adj not conveniently timed an early departure is inconvenient for us Syn inopportune not opportune 2adj not suited to your comfort, purpose or needs it is inconvenient not to have a telephone in the kitchen the back hall is an inconvenient place for the telephone Syn|Ant awkward causing inconvenience convenient suited to your comfort or purpose or needs accessiblecapable of being reached handyeasy to use favorable, favourableoccurring at a convenient or suitable time expedientserving to promote your interest |
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