喜樂美語
  1. 1aB2/ˌɪnkənˈviːniənt/不方便的；造成困擾的

    Causing you problems or extra trouble, in a way that is rather than serious. It is used about a time, a place, or an arrangement that does not fit well with what you are already doing.

    示範例句 · Example

    Monday is a bit inconvenient for me — could we meet on Wednesday instead?

    逐字星期一對我來說有一點不方便——我們可以改成星期三見面嗎？

    convenient 是「剛好配合得上、很好安排」，前面加 in- 就把它翻過來，所以 inconvenient 可以想成「卡住了、對不上」——時間、地點或安排跟你原本的事對不起來，害你要多繞一段路、多花一點力氣。它講的麻煩通常是「有點煩」，不是「很嚴重」。最常見的用法有兩種：an inconvenient time（卡到的時間）和 inconvenient for someone（對某人來說不好安排）；英文裡說 Monday's a bit inconvenient for me，其實就是很客氣地在說「那天不行，換一天好嗎」。

    常見搭配

    • an inconvenient time

      不方便的時間；卡到的時間

      a time that does not fit your plans and causes you trouble

      Leo always seems to call at an inconvenient time, right in the middle of dinner.

    • inconvenient for someone

      對某人來說不方便

      difficult for a particular person to fit into their plans

      If Saturday is inconvenient for you, we can go on Sunday.

    • it is inconvenient to do something

      做某件事很麻煩、不好安排

      doing that thing would cause you extra trouble

      If it is inconvenient to come to the office, we can send you the files instead.

    • most inconvenient

      非常不方便；偏偏挑在這種時候

      very inconvenient indeed

      The rain started just as the parade began, which was most inconvenient.

    • cause inconvenient delays

      造成令人困擾的延誤

      make things late in a way that causes people trouble

      Missing paperwork can cause inconvenient and expensive delays at the airport.

    用法接近

    inconvenienceconvenientinconvenientlya bad timeout of the way

core核心畫面

Something that does not fit your plan, so you have to work around it. Not a disaster — just an extra step, an extra walk, an extra phone call. The feeling it names is , not damage.

一件事卡在你原本順順的安排上，讓你得繞路。它不會毀掉你的一天，只是多出一段路、多一通電話、多一次折返。想像你排好了下午的行程，對方臨時說「改早上十點好嗎」——沒什麼大不了，但你所有事情都得重排。inconvenient 抓的就是這種「不是壞事，但很麻煩」的份量：程度很輕，情緒是煩，不是痛。

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用法接近

inconvenienceconvenientinconvenientlya bad timeout of the way

原始詞典資料3 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

inconvenientadj/ˌɪn.kənˈviːni.ənt/

  • 1

    not convenient

inconvenientnoun/ˌɪn.kənˈviːni.ənt/

  • 1

    obsoleteAn inconsistency, an incongruity.

    • To provide against this inconvenient, when the Stoikes were demanded whence the election of two indifferent things commeth into our soule[…]they answer, that this motion of the soule is extraorainarie and irregular comming into us by a strange, accidentall and casuall impulsion.
  • 2

    obsoleteAn inconvenient circumstance or situation; an inconvenience.

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。