inconvenience
inconvenience 英 [ˌɪnkənˈvi:niəns] 美 [ˌɪnkənˈvinjəns]
n. 不便；麻烦 vt. 麻烦；打扰
进行时:inconveniencing 过去式:inconvenienced 过去分词:inconvenienced 第三人称单数:inconveniences 名词复数:inconveniences
- An inconvenience is an annoying occurrence that makes you go out of your way, like the inconvenience of a detour that takes you off your usual route, or the inconvenience of the door bell ringing just as you are about to take a dish out of the oven.
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- n. 不便；麻烦
- vt. 麻烦；打扰
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1. Do not inconvenience yourself for my sake.
不要因我而太麻烦你自己。
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2. A bit of inconvenience and discomfort can be a very effective teacher, however, and is in no way abusive if you use common sense.
适当的一点点的麻烦和不适可以成为一个非常有效的老师。 然而如果你有常识的话这是不会被滥用的。
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3. Time and time again, panic turns a bad situation, or even a mild inconvenience, into a real catastrophe.
一次又一次，惊慌把不利的情形，或者甚至只是微小的麻烦，转变成真正的灾难。
- inconvenience (n.) c. 1400, "harm, damage; danger; misfortune, affliction," from Old French inconvenience "misfortune, calamity; impropriety" (Modern French inconvenance), from Late Latin inconvenientia "lack of consistency, incongruity" (in Medieval Latin "misfortune, affliction"), abstract noun from inconvenientem (see inconvenient). Sense of "impropriety, unfitness; an improper act or utterance" in English is from early 15c. Meaning "quality of being inconvenient" is from 1650s.
- inconvenience (v.) 1650s, from inconvenience (n.). Related: Inconvenienced; inconveniencing.
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