Botherとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

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

動詞

bother (third-person singular simple present bothers, present participle bothering, simple past and past participle bothered)

1. (transitive) To annoy, to disturb, to irritate; to be troublesome to, to make trouble for.

   Synonyms: annoy, disturb, inconvenience, irritate, put out, vex; see also Thesaurus:annoy, Thesaurus:upset

   Would it bother you if I smoked?

   1. (imperative, euphemistic) Damn; curse.
2. (intransitive or reflexive) To feel care or concern; to burden or inconvenience oneself out of concern.

   Synonyms: care, mind; see also Thesaurus:care

   I never bother about such trivialities.

   I wouldn't bother with an umbrella if I were you.

   • 1876 July, Henry James, Jr., chapter V, in The American, Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, […], published 5 May 1877, →OCLC, 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, catenative) To take the trouble, to trouble oneself (to do something).

   Synonyms: go to the trouble, take the trouble

   Why do I even bother to try?

   1. 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

• In sense 3 this is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive or the gerund (-ing). See Appendix:English catenative verbs

派生した語

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

名詞

bother (countable and uncountable, plural bothers)

1. Fuss, ado.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:commotion

   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:

     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.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:nuisance

   Yes, I can do that for you—it’s no bother.

間投詞

bother!

1. (dated, euphemistic) 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 (US), darn, drat, phooey, fiddlesticks

派生語

参照

アナグラム

• Hobert, boreth