詞匯精選:bother的用法和辨析
一、詳細釋義:
interj.
見鬼,真討厭
例句:
Oh, bother!
哦,討厭!
n.
煩惱,麻煩,不便
例句:
We're having a spot of bother with the new machine.
我們的新機器有一點小毛病。
例句:
I am afraid it was a bother for you to do this.
恐怕做這件事太麻煩你了。
v.
打擾,煩擾 [T]
例句:
I am sorry to bother you with all this.
打擾你這么多真對不起。
例句:
I don't know why he bothers me with this kind of rubbish.
我不明白他為何用這種爛事來煩我。
(使)煩惱,擔憂,不安 [I,T]
例句:
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.
痛苦的秘密在于有閑功夫擔心自己是否幸福。
例句:
Don't bother about that trifling matter.
別為那件小事煩惱。
操心,費力,麻煩 [I]
例句:
I haven't time to bother with such things.
我沒時間為這種事煩心了。
例句:
No, do not bother. I 'll do it.
不,別麻煩了。我自己收拾。
二、詞義辨析:
bother,disturb,trouble,annoy,irritate,vex
這些動詞均有“使人不安或煩惱”之意。 bother 指使人煩惱而引起的緊張不安或感到不耐煩。 disturb 較正式用詞,多用被動態(tài)。指攏亂,使人不能平靜或妨礙別人工作、思維或正常秩序,是程度較深的煩惱。 trouble 指給人在行動上帶來不便或在身心上造成痛苦。 annoy 強調因被迫忍受令人不快、討厭的事而失去平靜或耐心,多指一時的打攏或惱怒。 irritate 語氣比annoy強得多,指激怒,使發(fā)怒,多指一種短時間的反應。 vex側重指因不斷的干擾而引起的煩惱,有時含激怒的意味。
三、參考例句:
Oh, bother!
哦,討厭!
Does my snoring bother you?
我打呼嚕打擾你嗎?
Is not it a bother!
真討厭!
Don't bother about that trifling matter.
別為那件小事煩惱。
What a lot of bother about nothing!
真是無事找煩惱!
He did?not?bother?to?undress.
他懶得脫衣服了。
Don't bother to show me out.
不用費心送我走了。
Why should we bother reading a book
我們?yōu)槭裁匆M神去讀書呢?
I never bother to do warm-up exercises.
我從來懶得做熱身運動。
Don't write anything that will bother the censor.
你可別寫什么給檢查員找麻煩的話。
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