botherとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈbɔðə(ɹ)/
• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈbɒðə(ɹ)/
• (General American) enPR: bŏʹ-thər IPA^(key): /ˈbɑðɚ/
• 韻: -ɒðə(ɹ)

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?

   • 1876–1877, Henry James, Jr., chapter V, in The American, Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, […], published 5 May 1877, OCLC 4655661, page 87:

     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.

   • 1986, Vladimir Naumovich Zharkov, William B. Hubbard, transl., Interior Structure of the Earth and Planets, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 273:

     An egg and rasher of bacon for breakfast supply quite enough nitrogenous food for the day. Sometimes I have a treat. A cauliflower, etc. But generally I can't be bothered.

   • 1991, Raymond Buckland, Scottish Witchcraft: The History and Magick of the Picts, Llewellyn Worldwide, →ISBN, page 81:

     This takes effort. It can be a lot of work. So, you see, magick is not an easy short-cut to achieving something because you can't be bothered to get it any other way.

   • 1992, Victoria Branden, In Defence of Plain English: The Decline and Fall of Literacy in Canada, Dundurn, →ISBN, page 88:

     I've been using a computer instead of a typewriter for four years now, but I can't speak the language at all. I don't need it, and I can't be bothered unless it's going to be useful. The only kind of mouse I recognize is the four-legged variety, and I can't tell a bit from a byte.

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

派生した語

• →⇒ Irish: badráil
• → Jersey Dutch: boddere

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

• botheration, blast, dang (米国用法), darn, drat, phooey, fiddlesticks