Welcome to the voice of America's News Words.[qh]

欢迎收听本期VOA新闻词汇节目。[qh]

Wildlife officials in Thailand are working to contain some beloved monkeys that live in a small city northeast of Bangkok.[qh]

泰国野生动物官员正在努力控制一些可爱的猴子。这些猴子生活在曼谷东北部一个小城市。[qh]

Nuisance [qh]

讨厌的人、事情[qh]

Officials have recently built massive cages to contain the celebrated macaques of loppery.[qh]

政府官员们最近建造了巨大的笼子，用来关住这些著名的猕猴。。[qh]

Their growing population has become a public nuisance following physical interactions with humans.[qh]

它们的数量越来越多。有人类有身体接触，已成为一种公害。[qh]

A nuisance is a troublesome difficult person or thing or situation.[qh]

nuisance 是指一个麻烦的、难搞的人、事物或情况。[qh]

The word partly comes from a Latin word meaning "to harm".[qh]

这个词部分来自拉丁词，意思是“伤害”。[qh]

We usually use it when talking about minor problems.[qh]

我们通常在谈论小问题时使用该词。[qh]