botherとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: bŏʹ-thər, IPA^(key): /ˈbɒðəɹ/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): [ˈbɔðə(ɹ)]
• (英国発音) IPA^(key): [ˈbɒðə(ɹ)]
  • 韻: -ɒðə(r)
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): [ˈbɑðɚ]

動詞

bother (三人称単数 現在形 bothers, 現在分詞 bothering, 過去形および過去分詞形 bothered)

1. (transitive) To annoy, to disturb, to irritate.

   Would it bother you if I smoked?

2. (intransitive) To feel care or anxiety; to make or take trouble; to be troublesome.

   Why do I even bother to try?

   • 1877, Henry James, The American

     To expand, without bothering about it — without shiftless timidity on one side, or loquacious eagerness on the other — to the full compass of what he would have called a "pleasant" experience, was Newman's most definite programme of life.

3. (intransitive) To do something which is of negligible inconvenience.

   You didn't even bother to close the door.

使用する際の注意点

• This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive or the gerund (-ing). See Appendix:English catenative verbs

同意語

• (annoy): annoy, disturb, irritate, put out, vex; see also Thesaurus:annoy
• (make または take trouble): care, mind; see also Thesaurus:care

派生語

• bebother

参照

名詞

bother (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 bothers)

1. Fuss, ado.

   There was a bit of bother at the hairdresser's when they couldn't find my appointment in the book.

   • 2015 January 18, Monty Munford, “What’s the point of carrying a mobile phone nowadays?”, in The Daily Telegraph‎^[1]:

     It was a 15-minute return trip to walk back home to pick up my device, but I weighed it up and decided that it wasn’t worth the bother.

2. Trouble, inconvenience.

   Yes, I can do that for you - it's no bother.

同意語

• (fuss, ado): See also Thesaurus:commotion
• (trouble, inconvenience): See also Thesaurus:nuisance

派生語

• bothersome
• spot of bother

間投詞

bother!

1. A mild expression of annoyance.
   • 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, London: Wordsworth Classics, published 1993, page 11:

     [H]e suddenly flung down his brush on the floor, said "Bother!" and "Oh blow!" and also "Hang spring-cleaning!" and bolted out of the house without even waiting to put on his coat.

   • 1926, A A Milne, Winnie the Pooh, Methuen & Co., Ltd., Chapter 2 ...in which Pooh goes visiting and gets into a tight place:

     "Oh, help!" said Pooh. "I'd better go back."

     "Oh, bother!" said Pooh. "I shall have to go on."

     "I can't do either!" said Pooh. "Oh, help and bother!"

同意語

• blast, dang (米国用法), darn, drat

関連する語

• be bothered
• bothered
• bothersome

アナグラム

• boreth