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.
difficult 双语例句
1. He had a reputation for being bloody-minded and difficult.
他为人刻薄、难相处是出了名的。
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2. I have a fair idea of how difficult things can be.
我大致了解情况会有多困难。
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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。
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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。
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5. Adults need to live their own lives and that's difficult with children.