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

• 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 an unenviable record of ill-health.
  他一直身体不好，这可不值得羡慕。
• The unenviable task of ringing the parents of the dead child.
  给死亡孩子的父母打电话报丧这桩尴尬的差事。
• Whoever wins will inherit an unenviable legacy.
  那么谁将接受这个烂摊子呢？
• Companies in industries such as software and telephony find themselves in the unenviable position of trying to guess how much of their business will move to this advertising-supported sector-and how quickly they need to respond.
  软件、电话等行业的公司发现，自己陷入了一种不值得羡慕的境地，要努力地猜测自己的业务有多少会转到这种由广告支持的领域以及自己需要以多快的速度进行反应。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• His abrasive manner has won him an unenviable notoriety
  他生硬粗暴的态度让他声名狼藉。
• 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。