核心词议：
n. 困难；费力
difficulty 基本解释
n. 困难，麻烦，难事；难度；异议，争论，纠葛；财政困难，（经济）拮据
速记方法
速记技巧 词根词缀法 词根difficult+-y名词词尾 采编自网络 difficulty与trouble：
difficulty表示具体的“困难”
trouble表示情感上的“苦恼”
知识扩展
词语辨析
difficulty,hardship
两者均可表示“困难”。其区别是：
difficulty指必须付出大量的思考和运用技巧才能解决的困难；
hardship用于抽象事物，指各种难以完成或处理的、需付出很大努力才能克服的麻烦，用于具体事物指疾病、贫穷等给人们带来的磨难。
例如：
That was a small matter after the hardships they had been through.
经历过那么多磨难之后，这点事对他们来说就算不了什么了。
重要短语
with difficulty困难地；吃力地
have difficulty有困难
in difficulty处境困难
degree of difficulty难度系数，难度
difficulty 变化形式
复数： difficulties
中文词源： difficulty
精选例句
1、 Explain your frustrations calmly and sensibly—see it as an opportunity to clear up any difficulties you may have with this person.
冷静而理智地解释你的沮丧——把它看作是一个消除你和这个人之间的任何困难的机会。[机器翻译，如有错误，感谢纠错]
2、 I read very, very slowly with difficulty.
我读得很慢很慢，很吃力。[机器翻译，如有错误，感谢纠错]
1、 Older adults, especially those with limited mobility or difficulty driving on their own, are one of the classic use cases for driverless cars.
老年人，尤其是那些行动不便或难以自主驾驶的老年人，是无人驾驶汽车的典型用例之一。
1、 There's little doubt that nearly everyone who comes in contact with the net has difficulty concentration than it takes to post a status update.
毫无疑问，几乎每个接触网络的人都很难集中注意力，而不是发布状态更新。
1、 (48) But the force of geographic conditions peculiar to America, the interplay of the varied national groups upon one another, and the sheer difficulty of maintaining old-world ways in a raw, new continent caused significant changes.
但是，受美囯特有地理条件的影响、不同民族间的相互影响以及在这片荒蛮的新大陆上维持旧秩序的万分艰难，给这片新大陆带来了巨大的变化。
常见考点例句：
- Another difficulty is managing a global workforce .
- 另一个困难是管理全球员工。
- How is the difficulty level for each word determined ?
- 每个词汇是如何归入不同的难度等级的？
- The difficulty with pylons is that they go everywhere .
- 架线塔所面临的问题是他们无处不在。
- For pakistan , the difficulty went beyond civilian casualties .
- 对巴基斯坦来说，难题远不只是平民伤亡。
- Yet the difficulty is not a lack of general liquidity .
- 然而，难点不在于一般流动性的缺乏。
