difficult

英 [ˈdɪf.ɪ.kəlt] 美 [ˈdɪf.ə.kəlt]
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  • adj. 困难的;不随和的;执拗的
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将“difficult”分解为“diff”和“icult”。记住“diff”像“difficult”的发音开头,而“icult”可以想象为“you”加上一些困难,即“有困难”,这样就容易记住这个单词的意思是“困难的”。
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中文词源

difficult 困难的

dis-, 不,非。facile, 简单的,好做的,词源同fact, efficient. 即不好做的,困难的。

英语词源

difficult
difficult: [14] Difficult means literally ‘not easy’. It is a back-formation from difficulty [14], which was borrowed from Latin difficultās. This was a derivative of the adjective difficilis (source of French difficile), which was a compound formed from the prefix dis- ‘not’ and facilis ‘easy’ (whence English facile [15]).
=> facile
difficult (adj.)
c. 1400, apparently a back-formation from difficulty. French has difficile, Latin difficilis. Of persons, "hard to please," from 1580s.

权威例句

1. He had a reputation for being bloody-minded and difficult.
他为人刻薄、难相处是出了名的。
2. I have a fair idea of how difficult things can be.
我大致了解情况会有多困难。
3. It would be difficult to find two men who were more dissimilar.
很难找到彼此间差异更大的人了。
4. There's no petrol, so it's very difficult to transport goods.
没有汽油,因此很难运输货物。
5. Adults need to live their own lives and that's difficult with children.
大人需要过他们自己的生活,但有了孩子就很难做到了。

词语辨析

【difficult, hard】
这组词都有“困难”的意思,其区别是:
difficult: 比hard较为正式,侧重需要特别的能力、智力、判断力、技巧或勇气才能克服障碍。也可指深奥或抽象的难题。
hard: 含义广,通俗用词,与easy相对,泛指任何难理解,不好处理或不易做的事。

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