troubleとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) enPR: trŭbʹəl; IPA^(key): /ˈtɹʌb(ə)l/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹʌb(ə)l/, /ˈtɹə-/
• 韻: -ʌbəl
• ハイフネーション: trou‧ble

名詞

trouble (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 troubles)

1. A distressing or dangerous situation.

   He was in trouble when the rain started.

2. A difficulty, problem, condition, or action contributing to such a situation.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book XI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     Lest the fiend […] some new trouble raise.

   • c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:

     Foul whisperings are abroad; unnatural deeds / Do breed unnatural troubles.

   The trouble was a leaking brake line.   The trouble with that suggestion is that we lack the funds to put it in motion.   The bridge column magnified the trouble with a slight tilt in the wrong direction.

3. A violent occurrence or event.
   • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 7, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

     “I don't know how you and the ‘head,’ as you call him, will get on, but I do know that if you call my duds a ‘livery’ again there'll be trouble. It's bad enough to go around togged out like a life saver on a drill day, but I can stand that 'cause I'm paid for it. What I won't stand is to have them togs called a livery. […]”

   the troubles in Northern Ireland

4. Efforts taken or expended, typically beyond the normal required.
   • 1850, William Cullen Bryant, Letters of a Traveller

     She never took the trouble to close them.

   • 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque:

     Indeed, by the report of our elders, this nervous preparation for old age is only trouble thrown away.

   It's no trouble for me to edit it.

5. A malfunction.

   He's been in hospital with some heart trouble.   My old car has engine trouble.

6. Liability to punishment; conflict with authority.

   He had some trouble with the law.

7. (mining) A fault or interruption in a stratum.
8. (Cockney rhyming slang) Wife. Clipping of trouble and strife.

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:difficult situation

派生語

Collocations

派生した語

• Jersey Dutch: tröbel

参考

• Appendix:Collocations of do, have, make, and take for uses and meaning of trouble collocated with these words.

動詞

trouble (三人称単数 現在形 troubles, 現在分詞 troubling, 過去形および過去分詞形 troubled)

1. (transitive, now rare) To disturb, stir up, agitate (a medium, especially water).
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, John 5:4:

     For an Angel went downe at a certaine season into the poole, and troubled the water:

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, line 1100:

     God looking forth will trouble all his Hoſt

3. (transitive) To mentally distress; to cause (someone) to be anxious or perplexed.

   What she said about narcissism is troubling me.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, John 12:27:

     Now is my soule troubled, and what shall I say? Father, saue me from this houre, but for this cause came I vnto this houre.

   • c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 281, column 2:

     Take the Boy to you: he ſo troubles me, / 'Tis paſt enduring.

   • 1693, [John Locke], “§65”, in Some Thoughts Concerning Education, London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], →OCLC, page 68:

     Never trouble your ſelf about thoſe Faults in them, which you know Age will cure.

4. (transitive) In weaker sense: to bother or inconvenience.

   I will not trouble you to deliver the letter.

5. (reflexive or intransitive) To take pains to do something.

   I won't trouble to post the letter today; I can do it tomorrow.

6. (intransitive) To worry; to be anxious.
   • 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.26:

     Why trouble about the future? It is wholly uncertain.

関連する語

• turbid
• turbulent

派生した語

• → Jersey Dutch: tröble

Further reading

• trouble in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• “trouble”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• -buterol, Boulter, boulter