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

• 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。
• 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。
• It is an unenviable choice, which Mr Obama has already made once before, only to back down when the going got tough.
  这是一个不值得羡慕的选择奥巴马以前已经做过这样的选择，结果是当形势变得严峻时不得不放弃。
• But the Harbin scandal also focused the spotlight on an unenviable safety record.
  但哈尔滨丑闻也将人们的注意力引向不光彩的安全记录。
• Walker had the unenviable task of breaking the bad news to Hill
  沃克不得不把这个坏消息告诉希尔。
• 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。
• 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。
• The situation that China faces is an unenviable one.
  中国当前面临的形势是不值得羡慕的。
• Australia is on track to become the fattest nation, although experts questioned whether it had overtaken the United States and small Pacific countries for the unenviable title.
  澳大利亚正走在成为最肥国的路上，尽管专家们怀疑它是否已赶上美国和其它一些亚太地区小国，摘下顶并不让人艳羡的“桂冠”。