difficult

A1 CET-4 Oxf 3000 初中 FREQ #910 ★★★★★

a. 困难的

发音

UK /ˈdɪfɪkəlt/
其它 /ˈdɪfɪkəlt/
US /ˈdɪfɪkəlt/

词形变化

difficulted difficulting difficults 三单 difficults difficulting 现在分词 difficulted 过去式 difficulted 过去分词 difficulter difficultest more difficult 比较级 most difficult 最高级

教材释义与例句

形容词

困难的；不随和的；执拗的

hard to do, understand, or deal with

a difficult question

难解的问题

an immensely difficult task

极为艰巨的任务

Was the exam very difficult?

这次考试很难吗？

It's difficult to see how more savings can be made.

想要进一步节约看来是很难了。

He's finding it difficult to get a job.

他发现找工作很难。

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To make difficult; to impede; to perplex.

    废旧 及物

    August 9 1678, William Temple, letter to Joseph Williamson their Excellencies having desisted from their pretensions , which had difficulted the peace

adj. A1 Oxf 3000
  1. 1.

    Hard, not easy, requiring much effort.

    难

    困难

    艰难

    difficult of accomplishment

    However, the difficult weather conditions will ensure Yunnan has plenty of freshwater.

  2. 2.

    Hard to manage, uncooperative, troublesome.

    Stop being difficult and eat your broccoli—you know it's good for you.

  3. 3.

    Unable or unwilling.

    废旧

词汇关系

形容词

同义词 2

hard unmanageable

反义词 1

easy

近义相关 10

trying serious tough tight rough tall nasty embarrassing awkward rocky

参见 8

hard complex demanding defiant disobedient intractable effortful noncompliant

相关短语

difficult nut to crack difficult pill to swallow difficult nuts to crack difficult pills to swallow difficult situation

词源

From Middle English difficult (ca. 1400), a back-formation from difficulte (whence modern difficulty), from Old French difficulté, from Latin difficultas, from difficul, older form of difficilis (“hard to do, difficult”), from dis- + facilis (“easy”); see difficile. Replaced native Middle English earveþ (“difficult, hard”), from Old English earfoþe (“difficult, laborious, full of hardship”), cognate to German Arbeit (“work”). The verb is from the adjective, partly after Middle French difficulter and its etymon Latin difficultō. Compare difficilitate, difficultate, and Italian difficoltare.

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