| 词汇 | bothering |
| 释义 | bothering present participle ofbother bother verb uk /ˈbɒð.ər/ us /ˈbɑː.ðɚ/ botherverb (MAKE AN EFFORT)B2[ I or T ] to make the effort to do something: 花费力气（做某事） [ + to infinitive ]He hasn't even bothered to write.他甚至根本就没动笔。 You could have phoned us but you just didn't bother.你本可以给我们打电话的，可你就是懒得打。 [ + -ing verb ]Don't bother making the bed - I'll do it later.不用麻烦你铺床——回头我来铺。 [ + -ing verb or + to infinitive ]You'd have found it if you'd bothered looking/to look.如果你去找的话你早就找到了。 why bother You won't get any credit for doing it, so why bother?你做这事不会受到任何赞扬的，为什么还要做呢？ can't be botheredB2mainly UKinformal If you can't be bothered doing/to do something, you are too lazy or tired to do it: 懒得（做）;不想费力 I can't be bothered to iron my clothes.我懒得烫衣服。 I don't know why he bothers to bet - his horses always come in last.我不明白他为什么还要去下注——他选的马总是落在最后面。 Don't bother drying the pans - just leave them to drain.不用专门擦干平底锅——让它自己干就行了。 It annoys me that she didn't bother to phone. Why bother getting up at all when you don't have a job to go to?你没工作，不用去上班，还起床干什么呢？ They went to a lot of trouble for their dinner party, but half the guests didn't bother to turn up. Trying and making an effort A game all out assault attempt attempted commitment crack go after someone go all outidiom go down swinging/fightingidiom go for itidiom go for someone nose seek shoot the worksidiom smarten (someone/something) up smarten up your actidiom spare square the circleidiom step on the gasidiom botherverb (WORRY)B2[ T ] to make someone feel worried or upset: 使担心，使焦急;使烦恼 Does it bother you that he's out so much of the time?他出去了那么长时间，你不担心吗？ Living on my own has never bothered me.独自生活从来没有让我感到担心。 I don't care if he doesn't come - it doesn't bother me.如果他不来我也不在乎——我无所谓。 [ + that ]It bothers me that he doesn't seem to notice.让我感到烦恼的是，他似乎没有注意到什么。 The idea of going grey doesn't bother me, but I'd hate to go bald.我不在乎我的头发会变灰白，但是我真的很受不了变成个秃头。 "He can do what he likes - it doesn't bother me, " she said airily.“他可以做他喜欢做的事——我不介意，”她轻松地说。 It doesn't bother me what people think. It bothered him that no-one had taken the trouble to contact him. She doesn't seem at all bothered about her exam results. Making people sad, shocked and upset aback amiss appal be laughing on the other side of your faceidiom bite bum gnaw haunt heartbreaker heartbreakingly hit/touch a (raw) nerveidiom nerve self-lacerating self-laceration sensitivity shake someone out of something shake someone up shake/rock something to its foundationsidiom toxic wipe botherverb (ANNOY)A2[ T ] to annoy or cause problems for someone: 烦扰，打扰 Don't bother your father when he's working.你父亲工作时不要打扰他。 sorry to bother you I'm sorry to bother you, but could you help me lift this suitcase?对不起打扰你了，你能帮我提一下这个行李箱吗？ bother someone with somethingI didn't want to bother her with work matters on her day off.我不想在她休假时还拿工作上的事烦她。 The noise was beginning to bother us, so we left.噪音开始干扰我们，于是我们就离开了。 She threatened to call the police if he didn't stop bothering her.她威胁说如果他继续纠缠她，她就报警。 to annoy someone annoyIt annoys me that you're always late. botherIt bothers me that you don't help with the washing up. irritateAfter a while her behaviour really began to irritate me. peeveWhat peeved her most was that he hadn't even called her. bugHe's been bugging me all morning. aggravateIt really aggravates me the way he never thanks me for what I've done. She looked busy and I didn't want to bother her. If the noise bothers you I'll switch it off. The neighbours make a bit of noise but it doesn't bother me. Will it bother you if I have the TV on? I didn't want to bother her when she has so many problems of her own. Causing feelings of anger and displeasure aggravate aggrieve alienate anger annoy bend go too faridiom goat grate hack someone off harass joke nark nose rub someone up the wrong wayidiom ruffle ruffle someone's feathersidiom set someone's teeth on edgeidiom step/tread on someone's toesidiom tit Examples of botheringbothering In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Many pursued their tasks, in science as well, without bothering much with the limits or non-limits of predestination and free will. Alternatively, one could compare two countries source by source, not bothering to construct a composite index at all. One soon stops bothering when after leafing through nearly 500 pages there is only a reference to more literature. It seems likely that he has different intuitions without bothering to resolve the contradictions they imply. People who lead quiet lives not bothering with politics and the community are being somewhat selfish. By the 1970s the academic modernizers had fallen silent, seldom even bothering to respond to their numerous critics. We don't want government officials bothering us with their development projects, taking our money and never doing anything. The reader will wonder why the author is bothering, and doubts about the weaker arguments can easily turn into doubts about the conclusion. Why bothering about talking to a man if everyone already knows the content of his thought? If so, one should see it at the most junior levels, with more new faces not bothering to secure a clear factional affiliation. However, the lower incidence of other word class members does not mean that adults were not bothering to introduce them. The money feels to him too much like a favor, bothering him more than the mortgage that doesn't put him under obligation to a sister-in-law. Nevertheless, this behavior was perceived as invalidating, and induced guilt in the children for bothering a suffering parent with inconsequential concerns. The will to power rather than reason was to determine humanity's future, to the extent that humanity had any future worth bothering with. In this less pressured environment you are more likely to get the patient explaining what is bothering them or asking the right questions. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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