nuisance
nuisance 英 [ˈnju:sns] 美 [ˈnusns]
n. 讨厌的人；损害；麻烦事；讨厌的东西
名词复数:nuisances
- Whether it’s a mosquito or your little brother pestering you about the laundry, you can use the word nuisance to describe something that causes small annoyances.
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- n. 讨厌的人；损害；麻烦事；讨厌的东西
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1. Those with a longer view of the market and fundamentals, the shutdown is more of a nuisance, not an opportunity.
而对于那些对市场和基本面持长线观点的人而言,政府关门是麻烦事而非机遇.
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2. That was bad enough, what with the nuisance of 300-odd years of precedent affirming the right of the press to report whatever MPs say or do.
这已经够糟糕的了，更何况，300多年的先例肯定了报纸有报道议员们话语或行为的权利，这也是件麻烦事啊。
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3. "I have never in my life owned a phone -- they are a bloody nuisance," he said.
我这一辈子从没拥有过一部电话——它们都是带血的讨厌之物。
- nuisance (n.) c. 1400, "injury, hurt, harm," from Anglo-French nusaunce, Old French nuisance "harm, wrong, damage," from past participle stem of nuire "to harm," from Latin nocere "to hurt" (from PIE root *nek- (1) "death"). Sense has softened over time, to "anything obnoxious to a community" (bad smells, pests, eyesores), 1660s, then "source of annoyance, something personally disagreeable" (1831). Applied to persons from 1690s.
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