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pother

/poth-er/US // ˈpɒð ər //UK // (ˈpɒðə) //

烦人,烦人的事,烦心事,烦扰

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : commotion; uproar.
    • : a heated discussion, debate, or argument; fuss; to-do.
    • : a choking or suffocating cloud, as of smoke or dust.
  1. 1
    • : to worry; bother.

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Examples

  • The besotted world is not worth the pother this foolish young married woman makes over it.

  • There has indeed been a great deal of pother of late over the virtue and temper of "rural-minded people."

  • There was another bad manitou at the mouth of Superior Bay, where conflicting currents make a pother of waters.

  • "He is working out that passage in the Politics that your tutor makes such a pother about," said the other.

  • I shall just go right on without any more pother, and put a date now and then when it is very particular.