unenviable
英 [ʌnˈenviəbl]
美 [ʌnˈenviəbl]
adj. 艰难的; 讨厌的; 不值得羡慕的
BNC.19748 / COCA.26399
牛津词典
adj.
- 艰难的;讨厌的;不值得羡慕的
difficult or unpleasant; that you would not want to have- She was given the unenviable task of informing the losers.
让她去通知失败的人,真不是什么好差事。
- She was given the unenviable task of informing the losers.
柯林斯词典
- ADJ-GRADED 不值得羡慕的;令人不快的;尴尬的
If you describe a situation or task asunenviable, you mean that nobody would enjoy dealing with it because it is very difficult, dangerous, or unpleasant.- She had the unenviable task of making the first few phone calls...
她接受了这个令人为难的差事,负责打头几个电话。 - It put me in the unenviable position of having to lie.
这令我陷入了不得不说谎的尴尬境地。
- She had the unenviable task of making the first few phone calls...
英英释义
adj
- so undesirable as to be incapable of arousing envy
- unenviable notoriety
- hard to deal with
- awkward (or embarrassing or difficult) moments in the discussion
- an awkward pause followed his remark
- a sticky question
- in the unenviable position of resorting to an act he had planned to save for the climax of the campaign
双语例句
- However, the eurozone leaders have stolen this unenviable prize by letting the Greek debt crisis get so out of hand that it now threatens the integrity of the eurozone.
但是,欧元区各国领导人抢先一步、摘得了这个并不令人钦羡的桂冠&他们让希腊债务危机失控,使其威胁到欧元区的完整性。 - Today's miner still works hard, and in unenviable conditions underground.
今天的矿工仍然辛苦地工作,而且是在地下相当艰苦的条件下工作。 - Australia is on track to become the fattest nation, although experts questioned whether it had overtaken the United States and small Pacific countries for the unenviable title.
澳大利亚正走在成为最肥国的路上,尽管专家们怀疑它是否已赶上美国和其它一些亚太地区小国,摘下顶并不让人艳羡的“桂冠”。 - A divorced woman is likely to find herself in an unenviable position.
离婚女子很容易觉察到自己被人另眼相看。 - He has an unenviable record of ill-health.
他一直身体不好,这可不值得羡慕。 - Beck has the unenviable task of trying to rebuild the business.
贝克承担了试图重建企业的艰巨任务。 - As was discussed here last month, the United States is now in an unenviable predicament, gripped by conflicting pressures from rapidly weakening growth alongside elevated and accelerating inflation.
正如上个月在这里讨论的一样,美国现在正陷入一个让人退避三舍的困境,被迅速衰落的经济增长河不断升级的通货膨胀双重压力重重围困。 - It is an unenviable choice, which Mr Obama has already made once before, only to back down when the going got tough.
这是一个不值得羡慕的选择奥巴马以前已经做过这样的选择,结果是当形势变得严峻时不得不放弃。 - This leaves many vendors in the unenviable spot of having to finesse their business model like a game of risk.
这样的话,许多厂商就会处于不利地位,必须小心调整自己的业务模式,这就成了一场风险游戏。 - He felt his tear ducts burning, and could barely restrain himself from grasping his mother's thin, bony hands in his own. His parents have given my wife and I the unenviable task of making him bilingual.
他感到鼻子有些发酸。他差点忍不住握住母亲那双瘦骨嶙峋的手。他的父母给了我和我太太一分艰难的差事&教育他掌握双语。