inconvenient

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in·con·ve·ni·ent /ˌɪnkənˈviːniənt◂/ adjectiveadj

PROBLEMcausing problems, often in a way that is annoying 带来麻烦的；不方便的 OPP convenient

Monday’s a bit inconvenient for me. How about Wednesday?

周一我不太方便，周三如何？

Am I calling at an inconvenient time?

我电话打得不是时候吧？

—inconveniently adverbadv

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inconvenient• Computer breakdowns are annoying and inconvenient.• Any other arrangement would be heavier, more expensive and inconvenient.• The old patterns are allowed to persist but are made progressively more inconvenient.• Not having a visa can cause inconvenient and expensive delays.• While the regime for patients undergoing sclerotherapy is more inconvenient, it is undoubtedly less traumatic.• Your grandparents left for Terminus a few months back in my time and since then I have suffered a rather inconvenient paralysis.• An important moment had arrived and he could feel the inconvenient squeeze of moral choice.• It must, he recognized, have been infuriating and inconvenient to work in.

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