difficult
要点難しい、気難しい
意味
- (物事が)難しい,困難な,骨の折れる
- (人が)気難しい,つきあいにくい,扱いにくい
例文
We find it difficult to decide which one to buy.
どちらを買うべきかを決めることは、むずかしいと我々は感じている。
This problem is too difficult for me to explain.
この問題は難しすぎて私には説明できない。
The doctor contemplated the difficult operation.
医師は難しい手術についてじっくり考えた。
語源
dif-〜でない＋fic簡単な（facile）
ラテン語で「簡単(facilis)でない(dis-)」「難しい」。facile（たやすい）やfacilityと同じ仲間。
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English difficult (ca. 1400), a back-formation from difficulte (whence modern difficulty), from Old French difficulté, from Latin difficultas, from difficul, older form of difficilis (“hard to do, difficult”), from dis- + facilis (“easy”); see difficile. Replaced native Middle English earveþ (“difficult, hard”), from Old English earfoþe (“difficult, laborious, full of hardship”), cognate to German Arbeit (“work”). The verb is from the adjective, partly after Middle French difficulter and its etymon Latin difficultō. Compare difficilitate, difficultate, and Italian difficoltare.
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