bother
音标发音
- 英式音标 ['bɒðə'bɔðə'bɒðə(r)]
- 美式音标 [ˈbɑː.ðɚ]
- 国际音标 ['bɔðə]
- 英式发音
- 美式发音
基本解释
- vt. 烦扰,打扰;使……不安;使……恼怒
- vi. 操心,麻烦;烦恼
- n. 麻烦;烦恼
词源解说
- 1718年进入英语,直接源自英格兰语的pother;最初源自爱尔兰语的bodhairim,意为震聋。
用法辨析
- bother的基本意思是“打扰”“搅扰”,指使人受到烦扰或在精神上烦恼; 尤指把某人弄得焦急不安,心烦意乱,心情不能平静或专一,在句中多半用于否定结构。
- bother在表示“烦扰”“烦恼”时,除人体的head, brain, heart等或由人组成的机构、组织以及个别俚语(如bother the record)以外, bother一般不用事实作直接宾语; bother着重“打扰”行为的本身,而不指由此而产生的“烦躁”“不安”状态,因此表达“感觉烦躁”这个意思时,不能说I feel bothered.而应说I feel restless.
- bother可用作不及物动词,也可用作及物动词。表示“某事或某人使某人操心或焦急”时以“原因”为主语,以人为宾语;表示“为某事而操心或焦急”时以人作主语,“某事”则由with或about引出。在全否定句中,bother可接动词不定式或动名词(可认为其前省略了介词about)作宾语,两者意思上无明显差别。bother还可接以动词不定式充当宾语补足语的复合宾语。bother可用于被动结构,语气要比主动结构时稍强。
- bother在口语中还可用作感叹语,意为“讨厌”,表示不耐烦或厌恶的感叹。
- bother作“麻烦”“不便”“忧虑”解时是不可数名词; 作“令人烦恼的人或事物”“引起麻烦的人或事物”解时是可数名词,其前可加不定冠词。
- bother也可作“努力”解,是不可数名词。
- bother在作“斗殴”“暴力行为”解时,多用在英式英语的非正式口语中。
- 表示“打扰或麻烦某人时”,可用bother…with/about….Don't bother your father about it now. 现在先不要麻烦你的父亲。
- bother表示“费心”时,有多种表达方法,而且多用否定句式。bother (oneself) to do是不定式。bother (oneself) about后面跟名词或动名词。Don't bother to answer this. 不要费心去答复它。Don't bother about answering this.
v. (动词)
n. (名词)
英汉例句
- You needn't bother; I can lock the door.
你不必担心,我会锁门的。 - The children stopped bothering their father.
孩子们停止搅扰他们的父亲。 - Why bother asking if you're not really interested?
如果你不是真的感兴趣,干吗费口舌打听呢? - You don't bother to get dinner for me today; I'll eat out.
今天,不要麻烦为我预备晚饭了,我要在外边吃。 - You needn't bother what you will eat.
你不必担心吃什么。 - That man is always bothering me to lend him money.
那个人总是烦我借钱给他。 - Oh bother, I 've forgotten my pen.
糟糕,我忘记带钢笔了。 - The bother came along that I was at a loss.
这乱子突然发生,使我不知所措。
用作动词 (v.)
用作不及物动词: S+~(+A)
用作及物动词: S+~+ n./pron.
S+~+ v -ing
S+~+to- v
S+~+wh-clause
用作宾补动词: S+~+ n./pron. +to- v
用作感叹语
用作名词 (n.)
词组短语
- bother one 's head 为某事心烦
- bother the teacher 麻烦老师
- always bother 总是打扰
- bother continuously 不停地打扰
- bother deliberately 故意打扰
- bother previously 事先打扰
- bother repeatedly 又一次地迷惑
用作动词 (v.)
~+名词
副词+~
~+副词
英英字典
- (MAKE AN EFFORT) to make the effort to do something
- (WORRY) to make someone feel worried or upset
- (ANNOY) to annoy or cause problems for someone
- (EFFORT) trouble or problems
- (ANNOYING) an annoying person or situation
- used to express anger
- If you do not bother to do something or if you do not bother with it, you do not do it, consider it, or use it because you think it is unnecessary or because you are too lazy.
- Bother means trouble or difficulty. You can also use bother to refer to an activity which causes this, especially when you would prefer not to do it or get involved with it.
- If something bothers you, or if you bother about it, it worries, annoys, or upsets you.
- bothered
- If someone bothers you, they talk to you when you want to be left alone or interrupt you when you are busy.
- If you say that you can't be bothered to do something, you mean that you are not going to do it because you think it is unnecessary or because you are too lazy.
- hot and bothered&rarrsee hot
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专业释义
- 烦恼
- 打搅
- 烦扰