difficult是什么意思

adj. 困难的；不随和的；执拗的

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。

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.

1. He had a reputation for being bloody-minded and difficult.: 他为人刻薄、难相处是出了名的。

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。