unenviable

英 [ʌnˈenviəbl]

美 [ʌnˈenviəbl]

adj.  艰难的; 讨厌的; 不值得羡慕的

BNC.19748 / COCA.26399

牛津词典

adj.

• 艰难的；讨厌的；不值得羡慕的
  difficult or unpleasant; that you would not want to have
  1. She was given the unenviable task of informing the losers.
     让她去通知失败的人，真不是什么好差事。

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 不值得羡慕的；令人不快的；尴尬的
  If you describe a situation or task asunenviable, you mean that nobody would enjoy dealing with it because it is very difficult, dangerous, or unpleasant.
  1. She had the unenviable task of making the first few phone calls...
     她接受了这个令人为难的差事，负责打头几个电话。
  2. It put me in the unenviable position of having to lie.
     这令我陷入了不得不说谎的尴尬境地。

英英释义

adj

• so undesirable as to be incapable of arousing envy
  1. unenviable notoriety
• hard to deal with
  1. awkward (or embarrassing or difficult) moments in the discussion
  2. an awkward pause followed his remark
  3. a sticky question
  4. in the unenviable position of resorting to an act he had planned to save for the climax of the campaign
  Synonym:awkwardembarrassingsticky

双语例句

• Nigeria has the unenviable title of being the worst country for a baby to enter the world in 2013.
  尼日利亚摘得了无人羡慕的头衔，成为2013年婴儿的最差出生地。
• Today's miner still works hard, and in unenviable conditions underground.
  今天的矿工仍然辛苦地工作，而且是在地下相当艰苦的条件下工作。
• However, the eurozone leaders have stolen this unenviable prize by letting the Greek debt crisis get so out of hand that it now threatens the integrity of the eurozone.
  但是，欧元区各国领导人抢先一步、摘得了这个并不令人钦羡的桂冠&他们让希腊债务危机失控，使其威胁到欧元区的完整性。
• Deciding on which team will come away with the trophy is the unenviable task here.
  决定哪支队伍会赢得总冠军并不是一个很轻松的工作。
• As was discussed here last month, the United States is now in an unenviable predicament, gripped by conflicting pressures from rapidly weakening growth alongside elevated and accelerating inflation.
  正如上个月在这里讨论的一样，美国现在正陷入一个让人退避三舍的困境，被迅速衰落的经济增长河不断升级的通货膨胀双重压力重重围困。
• The unenviable task of ringing the parents of the dead child.
  给死亡孩子的父母打电话报丧这桩尴尬的差事。
• His parents have given my wife and I the unenviable task of making him bilingual.
  他的父母给了我和我太太一分艰难的差事&教育他掌握双语。
• Cooper had the unenviable job of announcing the redundancies.
  库伯负责宣布裁员这个不讨好的任务。
• He felt his tear ducts burning, and could barely restrain himself from grasping his mother's thin, bony hands in his own. His parents have given my wife and I the unenviable task of making him bilingual.
  他感到鼻子有些发酸。他差点忍不住握住母亲那双瘦骨嶙峋的手。他的父母给了我和我太太一分艰难的差事&教育他掌握双语。
• Britain held the unenviable record of having the highest divorce rate in Europe.
  英国在欧洲各国中保持着不光彩的最高离婚率纪录。