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発音

• enPR: trŭbʹəl
  • (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) IPA: /ˈt͡ʃɹʌbəl/, /ˈtɹʌbəl/ (/ʌ/ and /ə/ are not actually different phonemes in North American English)
    • (General American) IPA: [ˈt͡ʃɹɐbɫ̩], [ˈt̠͡ɹ̠̊˔ɐbɫ̩]
    • (Southern 米国発音) IPA: [ˈt͡ʃɹɜbɫ̩], [ˈt̠͡ɹ̠̊˔ɜbɫ̩]
  • (Northern England) IPA: /ˈtɹʊbəl/
  • (Scotland, Wales) IPA: /ˈtɾʌbəl/
  • (Australia, New Zealand) IPA: /ˈtɹɐbəl/
• ハイフネーション: trou‧ble
• 韻: -ʌbəl

名詞

trouble (countable and uncountable, plural troubles)

1. A distressing or dangerous situation.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:difficult situation

   He was in trouble when the rain started.

2. A difficulty, problem, condition, or action contributing to such a situation.

   The trouble was a leaking brake line.

   The bridge column magnified the trouble with a slight tilt in the wrong direction.

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book XI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →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.

   • 1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozwój (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 456:

     Scientists must realize that dialectical materialism is the only way out of the trouble they have got into through ignorance of Marx and Engels.

3. A person liable to place others or themselves in such a situation.
   • 1992, Ice Cube, “It Was A Good Day”, in The Predator:

     Get me on the court and I'm trouble
     Last week, messed around and got a triple double

   • 2021, Taylor Swift, Max Martin, Shellback, “I Knew You Were Trouble (Taylor's Version)”, in Red (Taylor's Version)‎, performed by Taylor Swift:

     ’Cause I knew you were trouble when you walked in
     So shame on me no-ow

4. The state of being troubled, disturbed, or distressed mentally; unease, disquiet.

   Synonyms: anguish, torment; see also Thesaurus:distress

   • 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XL”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 63:

     Yet oft when sundown skirts the moor
     ⁠An inner trouble I behold,
     ⁠A spectral doubt which makes me cold,
     That I shall be thy mate no more, […]

5. Objectionable feature of something or someone; problem, drawback, weakness, failing, or shortcoming.

   Synonyms: pain in the neck; see also Thesaurus:defect, Thesaurus:hindrance, Thesaurus:nuisance

   Your trouble is that you quit too readily.

   The trouble with that suggestion is that we lack the funds to put it in motion.

6. Violent or turbulent occurrence or event; unrest, disturbance.

   Synonyms: palaver, turmoil; see also Thesaurus:commotion

   the troubles in Northern Ireland

   • 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

     “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. […] ”

7. Efforts taken or expended, typically beyond the normal required.

   It’s no trouble for me to edit it.

   • 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.

8. Difficulty in doing something.

   She has trouble eating.

9. Health problems, ailment, generally of some particular part of the body.

   Synonyms: affliction, malady; see also Thesaurus:disease

   He’s been in hospital with some heart trouble.

10. A malfunction.

    My old car has engine trouble.

11. Liability to punishment; conflict with authority.

    Synonym: (informal) grief

    He had some trouble with the law.

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

    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:wife

14. (slang, dated) An unplanned, unwanted or undesired pregnancy.
    • 1971, Bob Stone, “Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves”, performed by Cher:

      I never had schoolin’ but he taught me well / With his smooth southern style / Three months later I’m a gal in trouble / And I haven’t seen him for a while.

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 (third-person singular simple present troubles, present participle troubling, simple past and past participle troubled)

1. (transitive, now rare) To disturb, stir up, agitate (a medium, especially water).

   Synonyms: inturbidate, muddle, roil, stir

   • 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], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, line 1100:

     God looking forth will trouble all his Hoſt

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

   Synonyms: distress, torment; see also Thesaurus:vex

   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.

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

   Synonyms: discommode, hassle, incommode; see also Thesaurus:annoy

   I will not trouble you to deliver the letter.

4. (transitive, of ailments, etc.) To physically afflict.

   My bad knee is troubling me.

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

   Synonyms: make an effort, take great pains

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

   • 1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter X, in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, [Germany?]: Privately printed, →OCLC, page 132:

     « The hut’s not very tidy, if you don’t mind, » he said. « I cleared it what I could. » / « But I didn’t want you to trouble! » she said.

6. (intransitive) To worry; to be anxious.

   Synonyms: angst, anxietize, cark, fret

   • 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.26:

     Why trouble about the future? It is wholly uncertain.

派生語

関連する語

• turbid
• turbulent

派生した語

• → Jersey Dutch: tröble

Further reading

• “trouble”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “trouble”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

アナグラム

• -buterol, Boulter, boulter

別の表記

• troble, trowble, truble
• trobel, trobelle, trobul, troubel, troubill, troubul, troubull, troubulle, trowbel, trowbill, trowbull, trubble (Late Middle English)
• troubull (Cheshire); trubbyl (Norfolk); trobil (Nottinghamshire)

発音

• IPA: /ˈtruːblə/, /ˈtrublə/, /ˈtruːbəl/, /ˈtrubəl/

形容詞

trouble (comparative troublere)

1. (usually of liquids) Murky, muddy, turbid, opaque.
2. (usually of weather) Turbulent, stormy, raging.
3. Confused, muddled; lacking coherence.
4. Troubled; beset by emotion (especially worry or remorse)

関連する語

参照

• “trǒuble, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

名詞

trouble (plural troubles) (Late Middle English)

1. A hardship, disturbance, or calamity; something difficult or disruptive:
   1. An affliction or torment; an injurious event.
   2. Political unrest, conflict, or dissension.
   3. Disquiet, worry; mental unease.
2. Turbulence, tempestuousness (of waves)
3. (rare) A challenge regarding property rights.

派生した語

• English: trouble
  • → Jersey Dutch: tröbel
• Middle Scots: trubill, truble
  • Scots: trouble, tribble

参照

• “trǒuble, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

語源 2

動詞

trouble

1. alternative form of troublen