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 nuisance ['njusn.s]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 讨厌的东西, 讨厌的人, 损害

[医] 损害, 讨厌




    nuisance
    [ noun ]
    1. (law) a broad legal concept including anything that disturbs the reasonable use of your property or endangers life and health or is offensive

    2. <noun.cognition>
    3. a bothersome annoying person

    4. <noun.person>
      that kid is a terrible pain


    Nuisance \Nui"sance\, n. [OE. noisance, OF. noisance, nuisance,
    fr. L. nocentia guilt, fr. nocere to hurt, harm; akin to
    necare to kill. Cf {Necromancy}, {Nocent}, {Noxious},
    {Pernicious}.]
    That which annoys or gives trouble and vexation; that which
    is offensive or noxious.

    Note: Nuisances are public when they annoy citizens in
    general; private, when they affect individuals only.

    1. With its territorial greed, it's becoming a nuisance." As usual, the PLO's policy shift was subtle but clear.
    2. Another investigator said the nurses also killed patients they considered a nuisance.
    3. In January 1984, Texaco Inc. declined to respond formally to what it considered a nuisance lawsuit filed by Pennzoil Co. in a Delaware chancery court.
    4. In other times, particularly when the restaurant industry was doing well, such knocks on the door would have been considered a nuisance.
    5. "Rodeo Drive just isn't what it used to be," Spellerberg said after the 15 minute hearing. "This is the first time a Rolls-Royce has been declared a public nuisance.
    6. Mr. Lewis says that he is often caught between his clients, many of whom consider wetlands requirements a costly nuisance, and regulatory officials, who view developers as a threat.
    7. On the battlefield, they say, gas would be little more than a nuisance, due to Israeli preparedness and prevailing westerly winds.
    8. Plaintiffs have relied on a variety of state claims, including nuisance and negligence, to make their cases.
    9. Managers of neighboring buildings are pleased with Pacific Construction's response, but don't like the nuisance and think the contractors and city should have anticipated the problem.
    10. De Becker said he is in constant demand because of an exponential growth in the volume of fan nuisance letters in recent years.
    11. "Chemotherapy will become a factor in her life, a nuisance, a burden in her life, but it will not define her life," he said.
    12. Mr. Barksdale called the filing a "nuisance lawsuit."
    13. Legislators said the exit tolls, referred to as "nuisance" tolls, bring in only $2.2 million a year and discourage motorists from stopping in West Virginia.
    14. The report will influence industrial relations in schools and should also establish an educational blueprint for the next two decades. Noise: New regulations on noise nuisance come into effect in the UK.
    15. Superior Court Judge Harold Cushenberry dismissed the suit on the grounds that the plaintiffs had no right to bring it and that any alleged nuisance was clearly not continuing.
    16. "It was an unnecessary nuisance," he said, "and I'm mad about it and fed up with it."
    17. The New York Times said Sunday that police documents list at least 52 clubs as "nuisance" establishments in properties owned by the city, including two in city housing projects.
    18. That leaves Jose unopposed for congress except by what the local mayor calls three "nuisance candidates."
    19. Sakharov contemptuously appraises nationalism as a sort of peripheral nuisance, which hinders the glorious advance of mankind, but is doomed shortly to disappear.
    20. Qayyum said his government planned to shut down the Jammu-Kashmir Liberation Front, which he called a "nuisance" engaged in terrorist acts, but said that would be difficult because the government had only half the security forces it needed.
    21. Sherman notes, Ms. Seegrist had been a nuisance at the mall over a period of time.
    22. "In the case of nuisance animals, man's first solution is `let's kill it,'" says Robin Russell, director of Protect Our Earth Treasures, an animal-rights group.
    23. He says nuisance laws weren't intended to provide people with smokeless and odorless environments.
    24. Until recently, William's lawsuits and other wrangling have been nothing but a powerful nuisance.
    25. In 1960, local authorities proclaimed it a public nuisance and burned it to the ground.
    26. It's very easy to regard these people as a nuisance. 'Douglas Hurd is on record many times as saying 'Don't interfere in the judicial process of foreign countries.'
    27. He says, however, "there is some nuisance value to it."
    28. Princeton police have charged five students who are present or former officers at the two clubs with maintaining a nuisance, which carries a maximum penalty of six months in jail and a $1,000 fine.
    29. The store persisted and was ordered closed in 1987 under a law that allows a judge to shut down a building for a year if it is deemed a public nuisance.
    30. His neighbor, Gena Contreras, filed a public nuisance charge against Bach when Bach failed to comply with her request that he not fly his flag while she is at home.
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