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a thing, person or situation that is annoying or causes trouble or problems 麻烦事；讨厌的人（或东西） I don't want to be a nuisance so tell me if you want to be alone. 我不想讨人嫌，你要是想一个人待着就说一声。 I hope you're not making a nuisance of yourself. 我希望你没有讨人嫌。 It's a nuisance having to go back tomorrow. 明天不得不回去，真烦人。 What a nuisance! 真麻烦！
Extra ExamplesTopics Personal qualitiesc1It's an awful nuisance having builders in the house all day. 房子里整天都有建筑工人在，真讨厌。 This new system is nothing but a nuisance. 这个新系统简直令人讨厌。
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 妨害行为 Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- great
- real
- minor
- …
- 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’.