单词 | with difficulty |
释义 | > as lemmaswith difficulty a. The quality, fact, or condition of being hard to accomplish or perform; lack of facility or easiness; an instance of this. Frequently in to have difficulty, with difficulty. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > [noun] arvethnessc1000 painc1330 difficultya1382 hardnessc1384 wondsome?a1400 hardheada1425 painfulnessa1530 difficult?1532 difficultness1549 awkness1587 uneasiness1594 difficileness1612 arduity1623 problem1641 difficacity1656 going1678 arduousness1731 catch-arse1970 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1961) Num. xx. 19 No difficulte [L. difficultas] shal be in þe prise. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. xii. ii. 604 Ȝif..þe egle haþ þre briddes, sche þrowiþ out on of hire nest for difficulte of fedynge. ?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 7969 (MED) His sonn with grete difficulte Gart his fader monke to be. a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 58/2 He spedely..wtout any difficulty brought ye matter to verye good conclusion. 1564 N. Haward tr. Eutropius Briefe Chron. ii. sig. E.iv That Fabricius..who wyth more difficulty can be made to forsake honesty, then the Sunne can be stopte to run hys course. 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary ii. 158 The Fleete with much difficulty warped in, and recovered the Harbour. 1697 R. Pierce Bath Mem. ii. ii. 268 In all the three Degrees of Difficulty in Breathing..some Humerous, some Nervous, some mix'd. 1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 138 I had no great Difficulty to cut it down. 1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison II. xvi. 165 A wry face, and a strain'd neck, denoting her difficulty to get down but a lark's morsel. 1825 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 2nd Ser. I. 283 The young gentlemen..with difficulty suppressed a most uncivilized laugh. 1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues I. 251 Socrates has no difficulty in showing that virtue is a good. 1957 J. Thurber Alarms & Diversions (1962) 141 Peifer twisted around on the sofa, slowly and with difficulty, as if invisible blankets hampered his legs. 1972 Listener 31 Aug. 270/1 The standard pattern of war veterans..a difficulty in what is called ‘re-entry’, in getting back into the civilian society. 2003 K. Daswani For Matrimonial Purposes (U.K. ed.) 225 Maybe Raju just had some difficulty expressing his true feelings. < as lemmas |
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