詞彙精選：bother的用法和辨析
一、詳細釋義：
interj.
見鬼，真討厭
例句：
Oh, bother!
哦，討厭！
n.
煩惱，麻煩，不便
例句：
We're having a spot of bother with the new machine.
我們的新機器有一點小毛病。
例句：
I am afraid it was a bother for you to do this.
恐怕做這件事太麻煩你了。
v.
打擾，煩擾 [T]
例句：
I am sorry to bother you with all this.
打擾你這麼多真對不起。
例句：
I don't know why he bothers me with this kind of rubbish.
我不明白他爲何用這種爛事來煩我。
（使）煩惱，擔憂，不安 [I,T]
例句：
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.
痛苦的祕密在於有閒功夫擔心自己是否幸福。
例句：
Don't bother about that trifling matter.
別爲那件小事煩惱。
操心，費力，麻煩 [I]
例句：
I haven't time to bother with such things.
我沒時間爲這種事煩心了。
例句：
No, do not bother. I 'll do it.
不，別麻煩了。我自己收拾。
二、詞義辨析：
bother,disturb,trouble,annoy,irritate,vex
這些動詞均有“使人不安或煩惱”之意。bother 指使人煩惱而引起的緊張不安或感到不耐煩。disturb 較正式用詞，多用被動態。指攏亂，使人不能平靜或妨礙別人工作、思維或正常秩序，是程度較深的煩惱。trouble 指給人在行動上帶來不便或在身心上造成痛苦。annoy 強調因被迫忍受令人不快、討厭的事而失去平靜或耐心，多指一時的打攏或惱怒。irritate 語氣比annoy強得多，指激怒，使發怒，多指一種短時間的反應。vex側重指因不斷的干擾而引起的煩惱，有時含激怒的意味。
三、參考例句：
Oh, bother!
哦，討厭！
Does my snoring bother you?
我打呼嚕打擾你嗎？
Is not it a bother!
真討厭！
Don't bother about that trifling matter.
別爲那件小事煩惱。
What a lot of bother about nothing!
真是無事找煩惱！
He did not bother to undress.
他懶得脫衣服了。
Don't bother to show me out.
不用費心送我走了。
Why should we bother reading a book
我們爲什麼要費神去讀書呢？
I never bother to do warm-up exercises.
我從來懶得做熱身運動。
Don't write anything that will bother the censor.
你可別寫什麼給檢查員找麻煩的話。
