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Wind Difficult Back Formation Latin French 609.Difficult 英 Dɪfɪk(ə)Lt]美

正面 609.difficult
英 ['dɪfɪk(ə)lt]美 ['dɪfɪkəlt]

背面
释义:
adj. 困难的;不随和的;执拗的
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。

1. wind "风" + -ow (auga "eye").2. 该词字面含义为“风眼”,即房子上让空气进来的孔。3. wind 风——window窗户(窗户是用来通风的)
difficult 困难的dis-, 不,非。facile, 简单的,好做的,词源同fact, efficient. 即不好做的,困难的。
difficultdifficult: [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]).=> faciledifficult (adj.)c. 1400, apparently a back-formation from difficulty. French has difficile, Latin difficilis. Of persons, "hard to please," from 1580s."

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