| 单词 | difficulty |
| 释义 | dif·fi·cul·ty 1. a. < the difficulty of a task > b. < the difficulty of climbing those steep stairs > 2. < the difficulties of a science > 3. < he made no difficulty in granting the request > 4. < in days of difficulty and pressure — Alfred Tennyson > as a. usually plural < spent wildly and suddenly found himself in difficulties > b. < labor difficulties grew out of bad working conditions > Synonyms: < 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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