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a thing, person or situation that is annoying or causes trouble or problems 麻煩事；討厭的人（或東西） I don't want to be a nuisance so tell me if you want to be alone. 我不想討人嫌，你要是想一個人待着就說一聲。 I hope you're not making a nuisance of yourself. 我希望你沒有討人嫌。 It's a nuisance having to go back tomorrow. 明天不得不回去，真煩人。 What a nuisance! 真麻煩！
Extra ExamplesTopics Personal qualitiesc1It's an awful nuisance having builders in the house all day. 房子裏整天都有建築工人在，真討厭。 This new system is nothing but a nuisance. 這個新系統簡直令人討厭。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- great
- real
- minor
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- nuisance to
- make a nuisance of yourself
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law 法律 behaviour by somebody that annoys other people and that a court can order the person to stop 妨害行爲 Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- great
- real
- minor
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- nuisance to
- make a nuisance of yourself
Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘injury, hurt’): from Old French, ‘hurt’, from the verb nuire, from Latin nocere ‘to harm’.