0 the fact of not being easy to do or understand -- 困难，艰辛
We finished the job, but only with great difficulty. 我们非常艰难地完成了工作。
[ + -ing verb ] She had great difficulty finding a job. 她找工作及其困难。
UK People with asthma have difficulty in breathing. 哮喘患者呼吸有困难。
People learning a new language often encounter some difficulties at first. 学习一门新语言最初常常会遇到一些困难。
An unforeseen difficulty has arisen. 出现了一个没有预料到的难题。
A ship is in difficulties off the coast of Ireland. 一艘船在爱尔兰海岸附近遇到了麻烦。
If you show the receipt, there ought not to be any difficulty getting your money back.
Many people have difficulty in rebuilding their lives when they come out of prison.
If you're in financial difficulty, we're happy to let you spread your payments over two years.
"Did you have any difficulty finding the theatre?" "No, your directions were excellent."
There are three levels of difficulty in this game: low, intermediate and high.
There were no differences between the four groups for experiencing a non-severe event, although depressed probands also experienced more difficulties than the other three groups.
However, the difficulties in a theoretical explanation of robustness within the linguistic modelling suggested the adoption of an empirical notion.
We have described difficulties associated with semantic query expansion.
