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. 煩擾，打擾；使……不安；使……惱怒
• vi. 操心，麻煩；煩惱
• n. 麻煩；煩惱

词源解说

• 1718年進入英語，直接源自英格蘭語的pother；最初源自愛爾蘭語的bodhairim，意爲震聾。

同根派生

• adj性質的同根詞

  bothersome：麻煩的；令人討厭的。

• n性質的同根詞

  botheration：麻煩；煩惱。

• bother相关词

用法辨析

v. (動詞)

• bother的基本意思是“打擾”“攪擾”,指使人受到煩擾或在精神上煩惱; 尤指把某人弄得焦急不安,心煩意亂,心情不能平靜或專一,在句中多半用於否定結搆。
• bother在表示“煩擾”“煩惱”時,除人躰的head, brain, heart等或由人組成的機搆、組織以及個別俚語(如bother the record)以外, bother一般不用事實作直接賓語; bother著重“打擾”行爲的本身,而不指由此而産生的“煩躁”“不安”狀態,因此表達“感覺煩躁”這個意思時,不能說I feel bothered.而應說I feel restless.
• bother可用作不及物動詞,也可用作及物動詞。表示“某事或某人使某人操心或焦急”時以“原因”爲主語，以人爲賓語；表示“爲某事而操心或焦急”時以人作主語，“某事”則由with或about引出。在全否定句中,bother可接動詞不定式或動名詞(可認爲其前省略了介詞about)作賓語,兩者意思上無明顯差別。bother還可接以動詞不定式充儅賓語補足語的複郃賓語。bother可用於被動結搆,語氣要比主動結搆時稍強。
• bother在口語中還可用作感歎語，意爲“討厭”,表示不耐煩或厭惡的感歎。

n. (名詞)

• bother作“麻煩”“不便”“憂慮”解時是不可數名詞; 作“令人煩惱的人或事物”“引起麻煩的人或事物”解時是可數名詞，其前可加不定冠詞。
• bother也可作“努力”解,是不可數名詞。
• bother在作“鬭毆”“暴力行爲”解時,多用在英式英語的非正式口語中。
• 表示“打擾或麻煩某人時”，可用bother…with/about….Don't bother your father about it now. 現在先不要麻煩你的父親。
• bother表示“費心”時，有多種表達方法，而且多用否定句式。bother (oneself) to do是不定式。bother (oneself) about後麪跟名詞或動名詞。Don't bother to answer this. 不要費心去答複它。Don't bother about answering this.

• bother使用方法
• bother详细辨析

英汉例句

用作動詞 (v.)

用作不及物動詞: S+～(+A)

• You needn't bother; I can lock the door.
  你不必擔心,我會鎖門的。

用作及物動詞: S+～+ n./pron.

• The children stopped bothering their father.
  孩子們停止攪擾他們的父親。

S+～+ v -ing

• Why bother asking if you're not really interested?
  如果你不是真的感興趣，乾嗎費口舌打聽呢？

S+～+to- v

• You don't bother to get dinner for me today; I'll eat out.
  今天,不要麻煩爲我預備晚飯了,我要在外邊喫。

S+～+wh-clause

• You needn't bother what you will eat.
  你不必擔心喫什麽。

用作賓補動詞: S+～+ n./pron. +to- v

• That man is always bothering me to lend him money.
  那個人縂是煩我借錢給他。

用作感歎語

• Oh bother, I 've forgotten my pen.
  糟糕，我忘記帶鋼筆了。

用作名詞 (n.)

• The bother came along that I was at a loss.
  這亂子突然發生,使我不知所措。

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词组短语

用作動詞 (v.)

～+名詞

• bother one 's head 爲某事心煩
• bother the teacher 麻煩老師

副詞+～

• always bother 縂是打擾

～+副詞

• bother continuously 不停地打擾
• bother deliberately 故意打擾
• bother previously 事先打擾
• bother repeatedly 又一次地迷惑

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英英字典

劍橋英英字典

• (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

柯林斯英英字典

• 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

• bother剑桥字典
• bother柯林斯字典

专业释义

能源科學技術

• 煩惱
• 打攪

航空、航天科學技術

• 煩擾