| 词汇 | faff |
| 释义 | faff noun UKinformaluk /fæf/ us /fæf/ something that takes a lot of effort or causes slight problems: 费力；引起麻烦 Stripping the walls was a real faff.刮墙皮真是件费力的活儿。 Chopping all those onions is such a faff. We had the usual faff taking public transport. It's an awful faff to make your own marmalade. This shirt is a bit of a faff to iron. The food processor is too much of a faff to clean. Inconvenience a pain (in the neck)idiom a pain in the arse/backsideidiom aggravation aggro awkward bother bulky disturbance hassle have fun and gamesidiom imposition incommode incommodious nuisance palaver pinprick pisser tempest untoward untowardly Examples of fafffaff We should stop faffing around and get on with it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They then faffed around for some 18 months and failed to request a delay in implementing the directive. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I responded with a wee bit of politicians' faff—a bit of flannel. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I would like to conclude by saying to all those who are likely to be the important players in the end game: do not faff about. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English None of this tilt-to-turn faff, although that is also an option within the menus if it's your personal preference. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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