difficulty

英 ['dɪfɪkəlti] 美 ['dɪfɪkəlti]

• n. 困难；争议；麻烦

双解释义

n. (名词)

1. [U]困难; 难度

   state or quality of being difficult; trouble or effort that sth involves

2. [C]难事; 麻烦

   difficult thing to do; a situation or problem that causes trouble

详尽释义

n. 名词

1. 困难，艰难
2. 难事，难题，难点，难局，难处，难关
3. 异议，反对
4. 争论，纠葛
5. 困境，逆境，财政困难，拮据；危难
6. 障碍
7. 麻烦

英英释义

Noun:

1. an effort that is inconvenient;

   "I went to a lot of trouble"
   "he won without any trouble"
   "had difficulty walking"
   "finished the test only with great difficulty"
   

2. a factor causing trouble in achieving a positive result or tending to produce a negative result;

   "serious difficulties were encountered in obtaining a pure reagent"
   

3. a condition or state of affairs almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring great effort to bear or overcome;

   "grappling with financial difficulties"
   

4. the quality of being difficult;

   "they agreed about the difficulty of the climb"
   

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. He experienced great difficulty in getting a visa to leave the country.
   他申请出国签证经历了很大的困难。
2. He faced the difficulty with courage.
   他勇敢地面对困难。
3. Have you any concrete thoughts on how to deal with this difficulty?
   处理这种困难你有什么具体的想法？
4. A difficulty has cropped up at work.
   工作中突然出现困难。
5. We accepted this arrangement without difficulty.
   我们毫无争议地接受了这个安排。
6. Why do you come to me with every little difficulty?
   你为什么有一点小麻烦便来找我?
7. But now she was in another difficulty.
   但现在,她又遇到麻烦。
8. He will get into some trouble or difficulty, otherwise.
   不然的话,他会招麻烦的。

常见句型

用作名词 (n.)

1. Look at the difficulty in another way.
   用另一种不同的方式看一下困难。
2. The tests in this book are arranged in order of difficulty.
   这本书的试题是按难易程度顺序排列的。
3. The work was attended to with much difficulty.
   这项工作带来了许多困难。
4. Have you any concrete thoughts on how to deal with this difficulty?
   对于应付这种困难,你有什么具体想法?
5. An answer to the difficulty usually suggests itself to me if I go to bed thinking about it.
   如果我上床时考虑一个难题,我通常能想出解决的办法。
6. It was with the greatest difficulty that the boy gathered the strength to speak, but spoke with a frightening emphasis.
   那个男孩艰难地、费了很大力气说出话来,然而他吐字有力,使人惊惧。
7. Tom progressed well with his book until he met a difficulty.
   在遇到困难之前,汤姆的书写得很顺利。
8. We are not going to allow a little difficulty like that to put us off.
   我们不能让这样一个小小的困难就使我们泄气。
9. We often meet with a difficulty arising out of the peculiar natural conditions.
   我们常常遇到由于特殊自然条件而产生的困难。
10. It is a difficulty that has long been recognized.
    这是一个早已被大家公认的困难。
11. You should face the difficulties and try your best to overcome them.
    你必须面对困难并且尽最大努力去克服它们。
12. We shall help you go through the difficulties to the best of our ability.
    我们会尽力帮你渡过难关。
13. His determination blinded him to all the difficulties.
    他的决心使他看不到存在的困难。
14. Our difficulties are many, to begin with, we can't get the workers.
    我们有许多困难,首要的是我们招不来工人。
15. The mountain climbers had to battle against great difficulties.
    登山队员不得不与艰难险阻搏斗。

～+(in) v -ing

1. The police had some difficulty in matching up the statements taken from the two witnesses.
   警方难以使两个证人提供的证词互相吻合。
2. Older students were having difficulty in studying and organizing themselves.
   年龄大的学生们学习有困难,也难以组织起来。
3. Mr. Brown has some difficulty in adjusting to the new climate.
   布朗先生不大容易适应新的气候。
4. I had difficulty in getting the ink off my skirt.
   我很难把衬衣上的墨水洗掉。
5. The committee member had difficulty in fighting his suggestion through.
   委员要使他的提案通过有很大困难。
6. They had little difficulty in getting away from the puppet guards.
   他们不费事地从傀儡看守手中逃掉了。
7. Some people have more difficulty than others in keeping their weight down.
   有些人比别人更难减少自己的体重。
8. She steps out so actively that I have difficulty keeping up with her.
   她蹦蹦跳跳走得太快了,我很难跟上她。
9. His eyes were so tired that he had difficulty focusing it.
   他的眼睛累了,无法准确聚焦。

～+of n. / v -ing

1. He finally solved the difficulty of transportation.
   他终于解决了运输的难题。
2. The difficulty of the examination staggered him.
   考试的困难使他很发愁。
3. I fear that I underrated the difficulty of the task.
   我担心我低估了这项任务的难度。
4. Well, that disposes of the difficulty of choosing a holiday place.
   好啦,那可解决了选择度假地点的难题了。

～+with n. / v -ing

1. I have no difficulty with English.
   我对学英语并不感到困难。
2. The students have great difficulty with this text.
   学生们对理解这篇课文深感困难。

经典引文

• Peifer twisted around on the sofa, slowly and with difficulty.

  出自： J. Thurber

常用短语

用作名词 (n.)

get〔run〕 into difficulty

陷入困境 put in a bad situation

in difficulty

处于困境,在困难中 in trouble

make〔raise〕 difficulties

刁难,提出反对 make opposition

tide over difficulties

渡过难关 smooth the difficulty

with difficulty

有困难地 difficulty

without difficulty

容易地,不费事地 easily

词汇搭配

用作名词 (n.)

动词+～

• avoid difficulty 回避困难
• cause a difficulty 出难题,制造麻烦
• clear away difficulty 扫除困难
• clear up a difficulty 排除困难
• come across difficulty 碰到困难
• experience -ties 经历种种困难
• face a difficulty 面对困难
• fall into a difficulty 陷入困境
• get into a difficulty 陷入困境
• get out of difficulty 摆脱困境
• get over a difficulty 克服困境
• give rise to difficulty 造成困难
• increase difficulty 增加困难
• iron out difficulty 消除困难
• make difficulty 造成麻烦,提出异议
• make no difficulty 表示无异议,表示赞同,没有差别
• meet difficulty 碰到困难
• offer difficulty 产生困难
• present difficulty 出难题,制造麻烦
• raise difficulty 为难,表示异议
• remove difficulty 排除困难
• run into difficulty 碰到困难

形容词+～

• disheartening difficulty 令人沮丧的困难
• economic difficulty 经济困难
• familiar difficulty 熟知的困难
• financial difficulty 财政困难
• great difficulty 巨大的困难
• political difficulty 政治困难
• practical difficulty 实际困难
• serious difficulty 严重的困难
• technical difficulty 技术方面的困难

名词+～

• language difficulty 语言困难
• money difficulty 经济困难

～+名词

• difficulty breathing 呼吸困难

介词+～

• after difficulty 经过困难
• in difficulty 处境困难
• a number of -ties 许多困难
• a series of -ties 一系列的困难
• all sorts of -ties 各种困难
• degree of difficulty 难度
• under difficulty 在困难情况下
• with difficulty 困难地

～+介词

• difficulty about a matter 关于某事的困难
• difficulty between two persons 两人之间的不和
• difficulty in breathing 呼吸困难
• difficulty in (learning) a foreign language (学习)外语上的困难

词语用法

n. (名词)

1. difficulty作“困难,麻烦”解时,指必须付出大量的思考和运用技巧才能解决的任何困难,当表示抽象的困难时,是不可数名词,既不能与不定冠词连用,也不能用于复数形式; 表示具体的难处、难事、麻烦时,是可数名词,既可与不定冠词连用,也可用于复数形式。difficulty引申还可作“困境(尤指经济上的拮据)”解,这时常用复数形式。
2. difficulty后常接“of+ n. / v -ing”或“in+ v -ing”作定语, in有时可省去,不用动词不定式。

词义辨析

n. (名词)

difficulty in, in difficulty

• 这两个短语的词序不同,意义和用法也完全不同。difficulty in接动名词,意为“在…方面的困难”; in difficulty则是介词短语,在句中作表语或后置定语,意为“处于困境”“在困难中”。另外, difficulty in中的difficulty只能用单数形式,而in difficulty中的difficulty多用单数,也可用复数,尤其是指“经济困难”时。

difficulty with, with difficulty

• 1.结构不同:前者是名词加介词,后者是介词加名词。
• 2.意思不同:difficulty with的意思是“对…感到困难”; 而with difficulty则表示“有困难地”,在句中只能用作状语。

difficulty, hardship

• 两者均可表示“困难”。其区别是：
• difficulty指必须付出大量的思考和运用技巧才能解决的困难; hardship用于抽象事物,指各种难以完成或处理的、需付出很大努力才能克服的麻烦,用于具体事物指疾病、贫穷等给人们带来的磨难。例如:
• That was a small matter after the hardships they had been through.经历过那么多磨难之后,这点事对他们来说就算不了什么了。

difficulty，hardship

• 这两个名词都表示“困难”之意。
• difficulty指需大量思考和技巧或努力才能克服的任何困难。
• hardship侧重指生活上令人难以承受的艰难困苦，如疾病、贫穷等磨难。

常见错误

n. (名词)

1. 找到他并不难。

   误 There is no difficulty to find him.

   正 There is no difficulty in finding him.

   析 difficulty如需用非谓语动词作定语,须用(in+) v -ing,不可用动词不定式。

近反义词

【近义词】

• trouble 困难
• obstacle 障碍
• hurdle 栏干
• hardship 艰难
• complexity 复杂
• intricacy 纷乱
• adversity 不幸
• complication 复杂
• trickiness 欺骗
• problem 问题
• snag (隐伏的)障碍...
• predicament 困境
• misfortune 不幸
• impediment 障碍
• emergency 突发事件
• stumbling block 绊脚石
• obstruction 障碍
• annoyance 烦恼
• effort 努力
• struggle 努力
• hitch 猛拉
• exertion 努力
• strain 拉紧
• embarrassment 困窘
• knot 结
• weight 重量
• pest 害虫
• crossing 人行横道
• mishap 不幸之事
• penalty 处罚
• delicacy 柔弱
• grief 悲痛
• misunderstanding 误会
• plight 困境
• vicissitude 变化
• rigor 严格
• difficultness 难

【反义词】

• ease 容易
• simplicity 简单