nuisance

英 ['nju?s(?)ns] 美['nusns]

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復數:?nuisances;

諧音“牛紳士” --- 我很討厭那個一臉牛氣哄哄、很自以為是的紳士。
諧音“扭紳士” --- 很扭曲、變態的紳士。

nuisance 妨害行為

來自古法語nuisance,傷害，損傷，來自拉丁語nocere,去傷害，謀害，詞源同necro-,noxious,innocent.后詞義弱化，用來指妨害行為，討厭的人。

nuisance: nuisance: [15] Nuisance has become much less serious over the centuries. When English originally acquired it, it meant ‘harm, injury’ (‘Helpe me to weye ageyn the feend … keepe vs from his nusance’, Thomas Hoccleve, Mother of God 1410), reflecting its origins in Latin nocēre ‘injure’ (source also of English innocent and innocuous). But gradually it softened to ‘troublesomeness’, and by the early 19th century it had acquired its present-day connotations of ‘petty annoyance’.
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" (see noxious). 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.

1. He spent three days making an absolute nuisance of himself.: 他3天時間就把自己變成了個地地道道的“討人嫌”。

2. Back in the 1980s drug users were a public nuisance in Zurich.: 在20世紀80年代，吸毒者在蘇黎世是被眾人所唾棄的。

3. It's a blooming nuisance because it frightens my dog to death.: 它真讓人討厭，快把我的狗嚇死了。