nuisance
nuisance 英 [ˈnju:sns] 美 [ˈnusns]
n. 讨厌的人；麻烦事；妨害
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；麻烦事；妨害
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1. I don't want to be a nuisance so tell me if you want to be alone.
我不想讨人嫌，你要是想一个人待着就说一声。
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2. I hope you're not making a nuisance of yourself.
我希望你没有讨人嫌。
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3. It's a nuisancehaving to go back tomorrow.
明天不得不回去，真烦人。
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4. He was charged with causing a public nuisance.
他被控妨害公共利益罪。
- 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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