| 单词 | difficult |
| 释义 | difficult (dɪfɪkəlt ) 1. adjective A1 Something that is difficult is not easy to do, understand, or deal with. Hobart found it difficult to get her first book published. The lack of childcare provisions made it difficult for single mothers to get jobs. It was a very difficult decision to make. We're living in difficult times. Synonyms: problematical, involved, complex, complicated 2. adjective B2 Someone who is difficult behaves in an unreasonable and unhelpful way. I had a feeling you were going to be difficult about this. Synonyms: troublesome, trying, awkward, demanding Collocations: difficult dilemma You didn't have his difficult dilemma to cope with and perhaps he was jealous of that. The Sun It's a very difficult dilemma because if we don't pay, we lose people; if we do pay, we risk the ire of society, and that's not helpful at all. Times, Sunday Times With the outbreak of the war, the government faced a difficult dilemma regarding education. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Being in a coalition government produces difficult dilemmas. Times, Sunday Times End-of-life issues pose some of the most difficult dilemmas in medical ethics. Times, Sunday Times It's a difficult feat, that. Times, Sunday Times Earlier this month, after several attempts, it also pulled off the fantastically difficult feat of retrieving a first rocket stage by landing it vertically on a drone ship. Times, Sunday Times He called it his most difficult feat to date, and remarked that training was very difficult. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The film became the most difficult feat the director ever tried to pull off. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 With the exception of the period from 1940 to 1948 this enabled direct services to operate on a daily basis, although wintertime conditions often made this a difficult feat. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They see their development as a long, often difficult journey. Times, Sunday Times It's been a difficult journey for me, this learning to be my own person. Times, Sunday Times The eight years in between have been a long and difficult journey. Times, Sunday Times Each day they gather virtually, to share a unique, incredibly difficult journey. Christianity Today It was a difficult journey, which took 20 days or so. Times, Sunday Times Ford, 54, punctuates her lilted conversation with phrases such as 'really lovely' but, by all accounts, she can be anything but in a difficult negotiation. Times, Sunday Times It took him 15 months of difficult negotiation to persuade banks and bondholders to write off most of their 4 billion of debt and convert more into shares. Times, Sunday Times One colleague said that the foreign secretary was 'refusing to take on the realities of a difficult negotiation'. Times, Sunday Times Indeed, he was crucial in that difficult negotiation. Times, Sunday Times We had difficult negotiations - no fast bowling, for a start. Times, Sunday Times Consequently, she rarely becomes fraught when she sees a difficult passage speeding toward her. Times, Sunday Times The shirt carried me through a difficult passage. The Times Literary Supplement The eight years that followed have been a complex tale of sales and resales of the site, a difficult passage through the planning process and a global economic meltdown. Times, Sunday Times Dispersed, they were only connected through roads of difficult passage and each neighborhood had its own life. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 When the melody from the introduction comes back in, it barely has time to establish itself before an incredibly difficult passage in sixteenths takes over. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 I'm 27 and have had a difficult pregnancy, plus there are concerns that our son may have a heart murmur, so will be born extravulnerable. The Sun All midwives would regard what followed on screen as a difficult pregnancy. Times, Sunday Times We're so happy and can't thank the medical teams enough for their help all through a difficult pregnancy and birth. The Sun It insisted that she make herself available to work - even though she was on maternity leave and had been through a difficult pregnancy. The Sun She had a difficult pregnancy that made us both stressed. The Sun That was a difficult proposition to prove. Times, Sunday Times (2016) Controversy makes preaching a more difficult proposition. Christianity Today (2000) Making a flapping, flying bird was a difficult proposition. Times, Sunday Times (2017) Any party leader can find themselves in a difficult situation with overcomplex party rules. Times, Sunday Times (2014) If gas presents a particularly difficult situation for you, try increasing the amount of oat bran you eat gradually over a longer period of time. The 8-Week Cholesterol Cure (1990) The alternative is to take a difficult situation and turn it into an impossible one. Times, Sunday Times (2006) Sometimes it can treble, which will put borrowers in a difficult situation to raise more money for repayments. Times, Sunday Times (2013) As a group of small shopkeepers in Lincoln, we are in a really difficult situation. The Sun (2008) He then faces the much more difficult task of selling what could be a very painful deal to the company's long-suffering shareholders. Times, Sunday Times (2006) The government statisticians have the difficult task of excluding such monetary appreciation from the final calculation so as to include only real stock increases. Collins Dictionary of Economics (1993) The text covers an array of topics, without being particularly comprehensive - it is an admittedly difficult task given the nature of the subject matter. The Times Literary Supplement (2014) This will be a difficult task but one which we will apply ourselves to. Times, Sunday Times (2006) This difficult transition can be seen as a golden opportunity for couples to reconnect and regain lost ground. Times, Sunday Times So, we face a profound and difficult transition: psychologically, professionally and physically. Times, Sunday Times Switching from being a primary school teacher to a career in business can be a difficult transition. Times, Sunday Times They made what might have been a difficult transition an easy one. Christianity Today They deserve far greater support, at a difficult transition point, than they currently receive. Times, Sunday Times It will make the trip doubly difficult. The Sun (2015) And on top of all of that, pantomime makes things doubly difficult for itself by being family entertainment. Times, Sunday Times (2007) After the second her cheeks went even pinker and she found it doubly difficult to listen to what Nick was saying. THE WHITE DOVE (2003) So was such deep immersion, involving two years filming in 40 camps, emotionally difficult for him? Times, Sunday Times Refreshments could be of a better quality, they say, and more support should be given to jurors who need help after sitting on an emotionally difficult case. Times, Sunday Times And if you are trying to communicate anything complex or emotionally difficult, such as sending condolences, e-mail still feels like an overly casual means of conveying your thoughts. Times, Sunday Times It can also be emotionally difficult. Times, Sunday Times However, you may find it emotionally difficult to adjust to the fact that neither of you has managed to remain faithful. Times, Sunday Times No conservationist applauds a victory until it's in the bag, but the manufacturers will find this enormously difficult. Times, Sunday Times And part of what makes them so revered are the enormously difficult selection tests. The Sun This makes it enormously difficult for local newspapers to compete. Times, Sunday Times It can be enormously difficult to calculate the tax due on these, particularly if some tax has already been paid in the other country. Times, Sunday Times These medics, in other words, did their job under enormously difficult circumstances. Times, Sunday Times The derivation of evolutionarily meaningful relationships among this, the most varied group of all, is especially difficult. The Times Literary Supplement (2015) Do you find it especially difficult to openly admit failure or defeat? The Family Nutrition Workbook (1988) The first corner will be especially difficult and hazardous. Times, Sunday Times (2008) This makes any attempt to give long-range predictions of the summer especially difficult. Times, Sunday Times (2015) This could be especially difficult for those countries that retained a significant proportion of small-scale family farmers. The Times Literary Supplement (2011) This makes the task of introducing tolerance to parasites or disease via genetic modification exceedingly difficult, if not impossible. PHYLLOXERA: How Wine was Saved for the World (2004) As you can imagine, this has been an exceedingly difficult journey to make. Times, Sunday Times (2012) It proved to be exceedingly difficult for members to forge radically different personal and economic relationships. Sociology (1995) This has been an exceedingly difficult journey. The Sun (2012) This is exceedingly difficult for a pastor. Christianity Today (2000) However, they are exceptionally difficult birds to see when they lurk in the tops of the poplars. Times, Sunday Times Its national security apparatus has an exceptionally difficult job to do to ensure the safety of its people. Times, Sunday Times I felt humiliated but knew any operation was going to be exceptionally difficult. Times, Sunday Times The assessment of risk for the future was an exceptionally difficult task. Times, Sunday Times Like other public services, the police are performing an exceptionally difficult job, in many cases at some risk to their own health. Times,Sunday Times It's a very simple aim actually but for me it seems to be extraordinarily difficult. Times, Sunday Times All of that made it extraordinarily difficult to assess developments. Times, Sunday Times That's the exclusive privilege of the players, a gift that will be extraordinarily difficult to replicate later in life. Times, Sunday Times This makes it extraordinarily difficult to take any long-term investment view on those companies that are exposed to it. Times, Sunday Times Her three years in the finance ministry - longer than any recent predecessor - have been extraordinarily difficult, however. Times, Sunday Times That said, the school should recognise that some parents may find the changes financially difficult and will offer support where necessary. Times, Sunday Times The logistics of carrying out construction at such a height will make the project technically and financially difficult. Times, Sunday Times Theirs was a good marriage, but their youth made it financially difficult, and this hindered his church work. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 However, by then the station's buildings were in poor condition and it would have been financially difficult to ensure their long term preservation. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The band has been inactive since 2004; with members based in different countries, touring proved to be logistically and financially difficult. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The puzzles that are used will be easy for humans but impossibly difficult for computers, the researchers say. Times, Sunday Times His description of the development of ideas for his recipes and the trial-and-error experiments excuse the pages of detailed, impossibly difficult recipes that follow. Times, Sunday Times While several made it sound 'impossibly difficult', few recommended the pursuit of unusual experience. The Times Literary Supplement This has put the government in an impossibly difficult position. Times, Sunday Times Our thoughts are very much with her family at this impossibly difficult time. Times, Sunday Times To compound miners' problems, they are finding it increasingly difficult, and costly, to source huge earthmoving equipment and replacement parts, such as tyres. Times, Sunday Times (2006) Criminals will find it increasingly difficult to 'hot-foot it' with the launch of the world's first national database of footwear. Times, Sunday Times (2007) This makes it increasingly difficult for older borrowers to get any kind of home loan. Times, Sunday Times (2014) And he admitted he is finding it increasingly difficult to focus on his job while the club lurches from one damage limitation exercise to another. The Sun (2012) However, he said that many of the decisions that ministers were having to make were 'incredibly difficult'. Times, Sunday Times I have been treated by my local foot care team for the past five years but it's been incredibly difficult. Times, Sunday Times This would be incredibly difficult for a human to design, but a computer program makes it quite easy. Smithsonian Mag For fans who had faithfully stuck with it, the ending was incredibly difficult. The Sun Persuading voters of this will be incredibly difficult. Times, Sunday Times A more complex model will usually always be able to explain the data better, which makes choosing the appropriate model complexity inherently difficult. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Because trains generally have extremely high mass and relatively low braking friction, they are inherently difficult to stop at normal speeds. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This failed as it was much too large and expensive; oscillating turrets also became unpopular as they were inherently difficult to protect against nuclear and chemical contamination. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The transition from adolescent actor to adult lead is a notoriously difficult one. Times, Sunday Times (2014) Gold is a fickle investment and notoriously difficult to value. Times, Sunday Times (2011) Bogarde was notoriously difficult to photograph and had a reputation for not suffering fools gladly. Times, Sunday Times (2011) Dark, furry animals are notoriously difficult to photograph, and the results in newsprint emerge as featureless blobs. Times, Sunday Times (2009) Avocados are particularly difficult for supermarkets to judge, going swiftly from inedibly firm to rotten. Times, Sunday Times (2014) Relationships are ambiguous and your dilemma is particularly difficult, but mapping out options and outcomes might help to make things clearer. Times, Sunday Times (2012) If gas presents a particularly difficult situation for you, try increasing the amount of oat bran you eat gradually over a longer period of time. The 8-Week Cholesterol Cure (1990) Building fruitful relationships on the other side of the Atlantic had proved particularly difficult in the past, he said. Times, Sunday Times (2013) At the same time, he has been prepared to make politically difficult compromises to keep the process edging forwards. Times, Sunday Times Nobody should underestimate, however, just how politically difficult and even dangerous such changes can be. Times, Sunday Times It's right to try something different, though doing it now will prove politically difficult. Times, Sunday Times Green taxes, politically difficult as they are, could have been justified under cover of fiscal crisis. Times, Sunday Times That will require politically difficult reforms of labour laws and state-owned enterprises. Times, Sunday Times Building the airport would be a large but not technically difficult project. Times, Sunday Times It was technically difficult to film the spectacle so the global audience saw a display of digitally created computer wizardry. Times, Sunday Times With oil prices close to $100 a barrel, the economics of such high-risk and technically difficult ventures are beginning to look attractive. Times, Sunday Times Plus, all the cameras mean shoplifting would be technically difficult, as more than one writer has already discovered. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It's technically difficult: you have to work fast, in minutes, then wait and wait. Times, Sunday Times Houses are a huge investment for most of us - yet are terribly difficult to trade. Times, Sunday Times Setting aside the thought that high streets must be terribly difficult to slip under your coat, how do stores tell if shoplifters are middle class? Times, Sunday Times It's true, some plants are terribly difficult to propagate except by seed. Times, Sunday Times But for those people who are new to the subject it's terribly difficult. Times, Sunday Times It's about a human being, not yet born, who will come into the world in terribly difficult circumstances. The Sun Translations: Chinese: 困难的 Japanese: 困難な |
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