bother

bother 主要表示“麻烦、打扰、费心”，也可作名词表示麻烦或纷扰，并可作感叹词表达轻微恼怒。

💡 记忆钩子

把 bother 想成一件不断来添麻烦的事：它来打扰你，就是“使你烦、给你添麻烦”；这件麻烦本身是“bother”，而你若费心去处理或尝试，就是“bother to do”。恼怒时单独说一声“Bother!”则像是在说“真烦！”

📝 学习建议

不要把 bother 只记成“打扰”；它还常表示“费心、特意做某事”，尤其出现在 bother to do 和 bother about 中。
名词 bother 通常不是普通的“问题”或“故障”，而是让人觉得麻烦、费事的事情。

📖 中文释义

intj

rare 真烦！

📖 当某件事令人恼火却又不想用强烈语气责骂时，可以单独说 bother，表示轻微的恼怒或不耐烦。

💡 常用作独立感叹句，也可放在句首后接感叹内容。它多见于较老派、委婉或带幽默感的语境，现代学习者不必优先主动使用。不要把这种感叹用法和动词“打扰”混为一谈。

dated euphemistic

Bother! I left my keys at home again.

真烦！我又把钥匙落在家里了。

noun

common 纷扰；折腾

📖 bother 可以指一阵忙乱、争执或令人不得安宁的折腾，重点是场面变得麻烦，而不一定是严重事故。

💡 常用 a bit of bother、some bother 或 cause bother 这类结构。它既能指一次具体的纷扰，也能作不可数名词泛指麻烦。语气多为日常、较轻，不宜用来描述重大危机。

countable uncountable

There was a bit of bother when the train was cancelled.

火车取消后出现了一阵小混乱。
core 麻烦；费事

📖 bother 也就是一件需要额外时间、精力或安排来处理的麻烦事；因此说 no bother，就是“没关系，不麻烦”。

💡 常见模板是 be a bother、be no bother 和 go to the bother of doing something。no bother 可用于回应感谢或请求，表示事情很容易、不造成负担。不要把 a bother 理解成“一个打扰者”，这里说的是麻烦本身。

countable uncountable

Thanks for bringing these documents. — No bother.

谢谢你把这些文件带来。——不麻烦。

bothers plural

verb

core 打扰；使烦恼

📖 某人或某事给你添了麻烦、让你不得安宁，就是 bother 你；它可以是实际打断，也可以只是让你觉得烦。

💡 常见模板是 bother somebody、be bothered by something 和 Would it bother you if...?。作及物动词时，直接接人作宾语，不要说 bother to somebody。否定句中常表示“不会介意”，语气要结合上下文判断。

transitive

Would it bother you if I opened the window?

我开窗你会介意吗？

The noise didn't bother me after a while.

过了一会儿，那噪音就不再让我烦了。
common 别烦；别添麻烦

📖 在祈使句中，bother 可以表示叫别人不要来打扰、不要再添麻烦；语气从轻微不耐烦到明显恼怒不等。

💡 最典型的结构是 Don't bother somebody 或 Don't bother me。祈使句通常较直接，容易显得不客气；如果只是想说“不必麻烦”，应使用 Don't bother to... 或 No need to...，不要让人误解为“别来烦我”。

euphemistic imperative transitive

Don't bother your sister while she's studying.

你姐姐学习时别去打扰她。
core 在意；操心

📖 当你愿意为某件事花心思、让它占据自己的精力时，就是 bother about it；否定形式则常表示“不在意、不操心”。

💡 常见模板是 bother about something、bother with something 和 not bother about something。about 后接事情，with 更常表示不想费力处理某人或某物。不要把这里的 bother 只理解为“打扰”，它强调的是是否愿意操心。

intransitive reflexive

I don't bother about what other people think.

我不在意别人怎么想。
common 费心去做

📖 bother to do something 表示特意花力气去做某事；有时带有“何必费这个劲”的意味，正是从“麻烦、费事”这个核心意思发展出来的。

💡 常见模板是 bother to do something、bother doing something 和 Why bother...?。Why bother...? 常用于表示“何必费劲”，并不一定真的在询问原因。bother to do 后接动词原形，不要接过去式。

catenative intransitive

She didn't bother to call me back.

她都懒得给我回电话。

bothers present,singular,third-person bothering participle,present bothered participle,past bothered past

📘 英文释义 (WordNet) 共 8 组

cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations;

同义词集: annoy rag get to bother get at irritate rile nark nettle gravel vex chafe devil

Mosquitoes buzzing in my ear really bothers me

It irritates me that she never closes the door after she leaves

下位: beset, chevvy, chevy, chivvy, chivy, eat into, fret, get, get under one's skin, grate, harass, harry, hassle, molest, peeve, plague, provoke, rankle, ruffle

make confused or perplexed or puzzled

同义词集: bother

上位: confuse, disconcert, flurry, put off

make nervous or agitated

同义词集: bother

The mere thought of her bothered him and made his heart beat faster

上位: agitate, charge, charge up, commove, excite, rouse, turn on

intrude or enter uninvited

同义词集: bother

Don't bother the professor while she is grading term papers

上位: intrude, irrupt

take the trouble to do something; concern oneself;

同义词集: trouble oneself trouble bother inconvenience oneself

He did not trouble to call his mother on her birthday

Don't bother, please

上位: reach, strain, strive

to cause inconvenience or discomfort to

同义词集: trouble put out inconvenience disoblige discommode incommode bother

Sorry to trouble you, but...

上位: affect, bear on, bear upon, impact, touch, touch on 下位: distress, straiten

something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness; ;

同义词集: annoyance bother botheration pain infliction pain in the neck pain in the ass

washing dishes was a nuisance before we got a dish washer

a bit of a bother

he's not a friend, he's an infliction

下位: irritant, nuisance, plague, thorn

an angry disturbance; ;

同义词集: fuss trouble bother hassle

he didn't want to make a fuss

they had labor trouble

a spot of bother

上位: disturbance, perturbation

🌳 词源

借自苏格兰语 bauther，词源不确定；可能与表示喧闹、忙乱的相关词有关。

Borrowed from Scots bauther, bather (“to bother”). Origin unknown. Perhaps related to Scots pother (“to make a stir or commotion, bustle”), also of unknown origin. Compare English pother (“to poke, prod”), variant of potter (“to poke”). More at potter. Perhaps related to Irish bodhaire (“noise”), Irish bodhraim (“to deafen, annoy”).

🔄 变式

bothered past bothering present bothers plural

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