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bothering

/both-er/US // ˈbɒð ər //UK // (ˈbɒðə) //

烦人的,烦人,烦人的事,烦人的事情

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : 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.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to take the trouble; trouble or inconvenience oneself: Don't bother to call. He has no time to bother with trifles.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : 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.
interj.感叹词 interjection
  1. 1
    • : Chiefly British.

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Examples

  • The argument also went that the lack of publicity would dissuade would-be hostage-takers from bothering to grab reporters.

  • A friendship-starting, pain-decreasing, Kremlin-bothering pass for dropping F-bombs?

  • I think I had more of an artistic thing bouncing around and bothering me.

  • But by not bothering to run anyone, state Democratic parties remain enfeebled.

  • I am starting with a hunch, and that's why I'm bothering to ask the questions.

  • The Taube has been bothering us again, but wound up its manœuvres very decently by killing some fish for our dinner.

  • Many, like myself, find the last less trouble and expense than bothering with incubators.

  • Black Hood vaulted into the roadster without bothering to open the door.

  • But no matter what happens, time and the world rolls by as indifferently as though there was nothing worth bothering about.

  • That was what was bothering Brodrick; for it was Jane's hand, in its freedom, that had kept the standard of the magazine so high.