| 单词 | bother |
| 释义 | bother (once / 294 pages) vn The word bother has many shades of meaning, but most of them involve trouble of some sort. You might wonder why you should bother to follow a recipe, until you taste what you've made without one. As a verb, bother can mean that you take the trouble to do something. It’s often presented as a negative: you might not bother to lock the house, or you may wonder why you should bother reading the instructions that came with your phone. Bother can also mean that you’re bugging someone or causing a minor inconvenience. The word can also have a sense of deeper worry, especially when something is bothering you, like a nagging sense of guilt. WORD FAMILYbother: botheration, bothered, bothering, bothers, bothersome+/botheration: botherations/bothersome: bothersomely USAGE EXAMPLES“He didn’t let anything around him bother him. He was in the zone and seemed pretty sharp those games.” Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) Rant to those who don’t bother to learn the facts. Seattle Times(Jan 01, 2017) If she is bothered now, she wondered, how would it be in a few more years? New York Times(Dec 30, 2016) 1v cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations Mosquitoes buzzing in my ear really bothers me Syn|Hypo|Hyper annoy, chafe, devil, get at, get to, gravel, irritate, nark, nettle, rag, rile, vex chafe feel extreme irritation or anger get, get under one's skin irritate eat into, fret, grate, ranklegnaw into; make resentful or angry peevecause to be annoyed, irritated, or resentful ruffletrouble or vex fretcause annoyance in beset, chevvy, chevy, chivvy, chivy, harass, harry, hassle, molest, plague, provokeannoy continually or chronically antagonise, antagonizeprovoke the hostility of goad, needlegoad or provoke,as by constant criticism bedevil, crucify, dun, frustrate, rag, tormenttreat cruelly hazeharass by imposing humiliating or painful tasks, as in military institutions displease give displeasure to 2v to cause inconvenience or discomfort to Syn|Hypo|Hyper discommode, disoblige, incommode, inconvenience, put out, trouble distress, straiten bring into difficulties or distress, especially financial hardship affect, bear on, bear upon, impact, touch, touch on have an effect upon 3v intrude or enter uninvited Don't bother the professor while she is grading term papers Hyper intrude, irrupt enter uninvited 4v make confused or perplexed or puzzled Hyper confuse, disconcert, flurry, put off cause to feel embarrassment 5v make nervous or agitated The mere thought of her bothered him and made his heart beat faster Hyper agitate, charge, charge up, commove, excite, rouse, turn on cause to be agitated, excited, or roused 6v take the trouble to do something; concern oneself Don't bother, please Syn|Hyper inconvenience oneself, trouble, trouble oneself reach, strain, strive to exert much effort or energy 7n something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness a bit of a bother Syn|Hypo|Hyper annoyance, botheration, infliction, pain, pain in the ass, pain in the neck nuisance (law) a broad legal concept including anything that disturbs the reasonable use of your property or endangers life and health or is offensive irritant, thornsomething that causes irritation and annoyance plaguean annoyance abatable nuisancea nuisance that can remedied (suppressed or extinguished or rendered harmless) attractive nuisanceanything on your premises that might attract children into danger or harm mixed nuisancea nuisance that is both a public nuisance and a private nuisance at the same time private nuisancea nuisance that interferes with your interest in and private use and enjoyment of your land common nuisance, public nuisancea nuisance that unreasonably interferes with a right that is common to the general public negative stimulus a stimulus with undesirable consequences 8n an angry disturbance a spot of bother Syn|Hyper fuss, hassle, trouble disturbance, perturbation activity that is a malfunction, intrusion, or interruption |
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