| Front | troublesome |
|---|---|
| Pron | ['trʌblsəm] |
| Back | 【TROUBLESOME】 He is a troublesome child; he is not obedient to his parents. 他是一个麻烦的孩子，他不服从父母亲。 【重点词汇】 troublesome adj. 麻烦的 反: pleasing |
| Vocab | troublesomedifficult to deal with
If something is troublesome, it annoys you or gives you difficulty. Your troublesome old car, for example, might be unreliable and have a history of breaking down at the most inconvenient moments. Use the adjective troublesome to describe things — or people — that are worrisome or inconvenient. A troublesome stomach virus will keep you home from work, and a troublesome teenager is a constant source of anxiety and frustration for his parents. The word troublesome adds the suffix some, "tending to or causing," to trouble, which has a Latin Latin root, turbidare, "make trouble or make turbid." Turbid, by the way, means "muddy or full of confusion." All forms of 'troublesome' will appear on average once every 636 pages. trouble troubled troubler troublesome troubling troublous untroubled troublesomeness |
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