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

• A divorced woman is likely to find herself in an unenviable position.
  离婚女子很容易觉察到自己被人另眼相看。
• The former foreign minister's supporters know that Karzai now faces two unenviable choices.
  前外交部部长的支持者们知道卡尔扎伊现在面临着两个令其为难的选择。
• 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。
• This leaves many vendors in the unenviable spot of having to finesse their business model like a game of risk.
  这样的话，许多厂商就会处于不利地位，必须小心调整自己的业务模式，这就成了一场风险游戏。
• 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。
• 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。
• He was in the unenviable position of having to choose between imprisonment or exile.
  他已陷于进退维谷的地步，不是坐牢就是流放，必须在两者间做出抉择。
• 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。
• 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。
• In contrast, many Western banks are in the unenviable position of having to pay a premium.
  相反，许多西方银行却处于不得不支付溢价的尴尬境地。