bothered
困扰的,烦恼的,烦扰的,困扰
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Definitions
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- : to annoy; give trouble to; pester: His little sister kept bothering him for candy.
- : to cause unease, anxiety, or worry in: I hadn't realized how much being in a small boat bothers me until we got into choppy waters.
- : to bewilder; confuse: His inability to understand the joke bothered him.
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- : to take the trouble; trouble or inconvenience oneself: Don't bother to call. He has no time to bother with trifles.
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- : something troublesome, burdensome, or annoying: Doing the laundry every week can be a terrible bother.
- : effort, work, or worry: Gardening takes more bother than it's worth.
- : a worried or perplexed state: Don't get into such a bother about small matters.
- : someone or something that bothers or annoys: My cousin is a perpetual bother to me.
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- : Chiefly British.
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Examples
He hasn't bothered to visit Iguala, the place where the students were abducted and killed.
The speculation that the next Bond might be black has Rushbo all hot and bothered.
Nobody bothered to tell Mister Ham about it until the following August.
And he scarcely bothered to hide his chief ambition: to lead his country as prime minister.
“We are still very girly,” Jolly said, who is not bothered by the traditionally feminine nature of the trucks they drive.
Sangree bothered her with no special attentions, and after all they were very little together.
As I said, the place must be made to pay, that's the first point; the second is, that I am not to be bothered.
Yet, when I was a young man, I never bothered my head about royalty, but I was as full of wild fancies as a balloon is of wind.
She liked well enough to have a friend drop in and talk to her when she was on duty, but she hated to be bothered about books.
Their footsteps, for they no longer bothered to tread silently, sounded like thunder in their ears.