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nuisance

/noo-suhns, nyoo-/US // ˈnu səns, ˈnyu- //UK // (ˈnjuːsəns) //

讨厌的人,滋扰,扰民,滋扰物

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an obnoxious or annoying person, thing, condition, practice, etc.: a monthly meeting that was more nuisance than pleasure.
    • : Law. something offensive or annoying to individuals or to the community, especially in violation of their legal rights.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounannoyance; annoying person

Examples

  • My experience working through the many nuisances associated with vacation rentals has shown me that a compromise was the best approach for Mission Beach and is likely the best approach for San Diego.

  • The public nuisance complaint came down in January 2020, triggering the evacuation.

  • San Diego’s real estate assets director is resigning less than a week after the release of a devastating review of the city’s acquisition of a downtown high-rise that the county declared a public nuisance following a series of asbestos violations.

  • Then, in January 2020, after finding debris in a conference room on the seventh floor that was theoretically accessible to city workers, the county issued a public nuisance order.

  • A day after the fire started, the county air pollution control agency issued three violations against the Navy, citing the fire’s smoke and odors as a public nuisance under state health and safety and county codes.

  • Poetry would be too obvious, too ‘portrait of the artist as a young nuisance’.

  • If my legs made me a nuisance, I vowed to become less of one.

  • Other questions: Should nuisance bears be euthanized if they are serial offenders?

  • Last year, there were a record 6,726, covering “nuisance” behavior, property damage, injuries to bears, and injuries to humans.

  • It also reduces nuisance, so there is less trouble in the neighborhood.

  • Beastly nuisance; we shall all have to clear out, for I suppose it won't be a mere matter of scratches.

  • It was rather a nuisance, too, to find that wherever he went he excited a considerable amount of attention.

  • Even the storage of gasoline in suitable tanks set down in the earth is not a nuisance.

  • Yet the business may become a nuisance when conducted in some localities, or in an improper manner.

  • I am very much taken with her, which causes Rubinstein to be a perfect nuisance.