nuisance

• n. nuisance; damage; nuisance; 迷惑行為。

古フランス語のnuisance（危害を加える、傷つける）から。ラテン語のnocere（危害を加えに行く、陰謀を企てる）が語源で、語源的にはnecro-（有害な、罪のない）と同じ。後に語感が弱まり、迷惑行為、迷惑を指す言葉として使われるようになった。

nuisance

nuisance: [15] Nuisance has become much less serious over the centuries. When English originally acquired it, it meant ‘harm, injury’ (‘Helpe me to weye ageyn the feend … keepe vs from his nusance’, Thomas Hoccleve, Mother of God 1410), reflecting its origins in Latin nocēre ‘injure’ (source also of English innocent and innocuous). But gradually it softened to ‘troublesomeness’, and by the early 19th century it had acquired its present-day connotations of ‘petty annoyance’.

nuisance (n.)

c. 1400, "injury, hurt, harm," from Anglo-French nusaunce, Old French nuisance "harm, wrong, damage," from past participle stem of nuire "to harm," from Latin nocere "to hurt" (see noxious). Sense has softened over time, to "anything obnoxious to a community" (bad smells, pests, eyesores), 1660s, then "source of annoyance, something personally disagreeable" (1831). Applied to persons from 1690s.

1. He spent three days Making an absolute nuisance of himself.

彼は3日間で自分を正真正銘の「嫌われ者」に変えた。

2.Back in the 1980 s drug users were a public nuisance in Zurich.

1980年代には、麻薬使用者はチューリッヒで唾棄されていた。

3.It 's a blooming nuisance because it frightens my dog to death.

それは本当に嫌で、私の犬をびっくりさせてしまいました。

4.They 're a danned nuisance .

彼らは本当に嫌なやつだ。

5.He was always a devil of a nuisance .

彼はいつも嫌な人だ。