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

• 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。
• 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。
• He has been given the unenviable task of going round, cap in hand, to various generous companies.
  他被分配了一个苦差，要点头哈腰地去拜访那些愿意掏钱资助的公司。
• Beck has the unenviable task of trying to rebuild the business.
  贝克承担了试图重建企业的艰巨任务。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。