英语词汇“difficulty”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	difficulty
释义	dif·fi·cul·ty \-ˌkəltē, -ti also -_kə-\ noun (-es) Etymology: Middle English difficulte, from Latin difficultas, irregular (influence of Latin facultas skill, ability) from difficilis difficult — more at difficile, faculty 1. a. : the quality or state of being difficult or hard to do or to overcome : arduousness < the difficulty of a task > b. : unusual or laborious effort < the difficulty of climbing those steep stairs > 2. : a thing hard to do or to overcome : something that causes labor or perplexity and requires skill and perseverance in mastering, solving, or achieving : a hard enterprise : obstacle, impediment < the difficulties of a science > 3. : a show of reluctance : objection, cavil, demur < he made no difficulty in granting the request > 4. : embarrassment of affairs < in days of difficulty and pressure — Alfred Tennyson > as a. usually plural : embarrassment in financial affairs < spent wildly and suddenly found himself in difficulties > b. : a falling out : disagreement, controversy < labor difficulties grew out of bad working conditions > Synonyms: difficulty, hardship, rigor, and vicissitude can mean in common something obstructing one's goal and demanding effort or endurance to overcome. difficulty, the most widely applicable of the terms, applies to any condition, situation, experience, or task which presents a problem hard to solve < we ventured, however, over all these difficulties, and I took her to wife September 1st, 1730 — Benjamin Franklin > < difficulties occur and have to be surmounted — T.D.Weldon > < Galileo's difficulties with the church had nothing to do with his experiments — M.R.Cohen > < there are always difficulties between a man's dream and its achievement > hardship stresses suffering, toil, or privation that is unusual or hard to bear, especially in the pursuit of a goal < the first decade in the history of Minnesota's newspapers brought them great hardships — American Guide Series: Minnesota > < they face the hardships of their comfortless lives with stolid indifference — P.E.James > < she insisted on sharing the hardships on equal terms with soldiers — Current Biography > rigor usually applies to a hardship imposed upon one, as by ambition, a religion, a tyrannical government, or a trying climate < anything which might soften the rigor of his prison — J.H.Wheelwright > < the rigor of parental authority — Abram Kardiner > < the rigors of the weather — Alexis Carrel > < a European custom which nowhere survived the rigors of the frontier — W.P.Webb > vicissitude, in this connection, applies to a difficulty or hardship incident to life or a career or course of action < the dwarfing vicissitudes of poverty — Francis Hackett > < the vicissitudes of living, such as faulty diets, infections, intoxications, traumata, emotional stresses, overwork, laziness — A.J.Carlson & E.J.Stieglitz > < the vicissitudes of political persecution and exile — Times Literary Supplement >
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