| 单词 | difficult |
| 释义 | difficult (once / 58 pages) adj If something is difficult, it requires physical effort or brain power to complete, like climbing Mount Everest, a difficult journey. Difficult has Latin parts: dis meaning "not, un" and facilis meaning "easy." So, something that is difficult is not easy, like marathon running. Difficult can also be used to describe a situation or person that is hard to control. For example, if you babysit a difficult child, he or she might run away from you and not obey you. And you might have a difficult time agreeing to watch that child again. WORD FAMILYdifficult: difficulter, difficultest, difficultly, difficultness USAGE EXAMPLESGetting people in rural areas onto the national grid is proving too difficult and traditional solar panels generate meagre amounts of energy. BBC(Jan 02, 2017) She acknowledged that there were grants available to the UK tech sector, but added that they were difficult to qualify for. BBC(Jan 02, 2017) “With the legislation currently in place, it’s incredibly difficult for law enforcement to track down guns that emerge from the secondary market.” The Guardian(Jan 02, 2017) 1adj not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure a difficult task nesting places on the cliffs are difficult of access difficult times Syn|Ant hard demanding requiring more than usually expected or thought due; especially great patience and effort and skill ambitious, challengingrequiring full use of your abilities or resources arduousdifficult to accomplish; demanding considerable mental effort and skill awkward, embarrassing, sticky, unenviablehard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment baffling, elusive, knotty, problematic, problematical, toughmaking great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe catchy, trickyhaving concealed difficulty delicate, ticklish, touchydifficult to handle; requiring great tact fractiousunpredictably difficult in operation; likely to be troublesome hard-foughtrequiring great effort herculeanextremely difficult; requiring the strength of a Hercules nasty, tightexasperatingly difficult to handle or circumvent rocky, roughfull of hardship or trials rugged, toughvery difficult; severely testing stamina or resolution seriousrequiring effort or concentration; complex and not easy to answer or solve tallimpressively difficult thornybristling with perplexities troublesomedifficult to deal with tryinghard to endure vexedcausing difficulty in finding an answer or solution; much disputed effortfulrequiring great physical effort harddispassionate easy posing no difficulty; requiring little effort undemandingrequiring little if any patience or effort or skill casual, effortlessnot showing effort or strain cleanwithout difficulties or problems cushy, easygoing, softnot burdensome or demanding; borne or done easily and without hardship elementary, simple, uncomplicated, unproblematiceasy and not involved or complicated hands-downachieved without great effort painlessrequiring little hard work or exertion simplifiedmade easy or uncomplicated smoothlacking obstructions or difficulties user-friendlyeasy to use effortlessrequiring or apparently requiring no effort softcompassionate and kind; conciliatory simplehaving few parts; not complex or complicated or involved 2adj hard to control "a difficult child", "an unmanageable situation Syn|Ant unmanageable defiant, noncompliant boldly resisting authority or an opposing force indocile, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unrulyof persons uncheckableincapable of being checked or restrained disobedientnot obeying or complying with commands of those in authority intractablenot tractable; difficult to manage or mold manageable capable of being managed or controlled compliantdisposed or willing to comply administrablecapable of being administered or managed controllable, governablecapable of being controlled directedmanageable by a supervising agent dirigible, steerablecapable of being steered or directed obedientdutifully complying with the commands or instructions of those in authority manipulable, tractableeasily managed (controlled or taught or molded) |
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