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单词 over-trouble
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over-troublev.

Brit. /ˌəʊvəˈtrʌbl/, U.S. /ˌoʊvərˈtrəb(ə)l/
Forms: see over- prefix and trouble v.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: over- prefix, trouble v.
Etymology: < over- prefix + trouble v.
transitive. To trouble excessively. Now usually in passive.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > state of annoyance or vexation > be annoyed or vexed by [verb (transitive)] > annoy or vex > excessively
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1582 T. Watson Ἑκατομπαθία: Passionate Cent. Loue xxxviii. (heading) Howe fondly his friendes ouertrouble him, by questioninge with him touching his loue.
1617 G. Buckingham in F. Bacon Wks. 211/2 This business of my brother's, that you overtrouble yourself with.
1669 Ld. Orrery Parthenissa VI. vi. 97 I did busie my Thoughts about it, and was not over-troubled, that the more I reflected on it, the less likelihood I found of it.
1839 E. S. Wortley Thousand Murmurs in Moving Trees in Sonnets 89 Each thought seems trembling as a trembling tear, O'ertroubled with these sounds that conquering please!
1858 A. Trollope Three Clerks II. i. 13 He should be close, secret, exacting, given to concealment, not over troubled by scruples.
1904 F. W. O. Ward Only Love in Prisoner of Love 65 Love, although its tasks be doubled Daily on the upward road, Never can be over-troubled Or refuse the heaviest load.
1967 World Politics 19 557 Not overtroubled by the divide between their work and that of those who are concerned more directly with the rude and intractable facts of international life.
1998 Belfast Tel. (Nexis) 23 Mar. Familiarity breeds little familiarities that parts of our bodies absorb without our minds being over-troubled one way or the other.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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