- 1aB2
/ˌɪnkənˈviːniənt/
Causing you problems or extra trouble, in a way that is rather than serious. It is used about a time, a place, or an arrangement that does not fit well with what you are already doing.
不方便的;造成困擾的
核心畫面
Something that does not fit your plan, so you have to work around it. Not a disaster — just an extra step, an extra walk, an extra phone call. The feeling it names is , not damage.
一件事卡在你原本順順的安排上,讓你得繞路。它不會毀掉你的一天,只是多出一段路、多一通電話、多一次折返。想像你排好了下…更多收起
一件事卡在你原本順順的安排上,讓你得繞路。它不會毀掉你的一天,只是多出一段路、多一通電話、多一次折返。想像你排好了下午的行程,對方臨時說「改早上十點好嗎」——沒什麼大不了,但你所有事情都得重排。inconvenient 抓的就是這種「不是壞事,但很麻煩」的份量:程度很輕,情緒是煩,不是痛。原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
inconvenientadj/ˌɪn.kənˈviːni.ənt/
- 1
not convenient
inconvenientnoun/ˌɪn.kənˈviːni.ənt/
- 1
obsoleteAn inconsistency, an incongruity.
- To provide against this inconvenient, when the Stoikes were demanded whence the election of two indifferent things commeth into our soule[…]they answer, that this motion of the soule is extraorainarie and irregular comming into us by a strange, accidentall and casuall impulsion.
- 2
obsoleteAn inconvenient circumstance or situation; an inconvenience.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。