v.烦扰；使恼怒；使不安；费心
n.麻烦；烦扰；焦急
I've no time to bother with such things. 我没时间为这种事烦恼。
Don't write anything that will bother the censor. 你可别写什么给检查员找麻烦的话。
It bothers me that he can be so insensitive. 他这样麻木不仁，我心里很不痛快。
Don't bother about such trifles. 这丁点儿事不必放在心上。
He could produce excellent work but usually he can't be bothered. 他其实可以把工作做好，可他往往嫌费事而不干。
Don't bother yourself about me，I am doing quite well. 别为我操心,我一切都好。
He didn't even bother to say thank you. 他甚至连说一声谢谢都不肯。
用作名词 (n.)Oh,would you mind? I hate to be a bother. 哦，你不介意吗?我不愿麻烦别人。
We're having a spot of bother with the new machine. 我们的新机器有一点小毛病。
I am afraid it was a bother for you to do this. 恐怕做这件事太麻烦你了。
I like cooking, I do it without any bother. 我喜欢做饭，一点儿也不嫌麻烦。
It is no bother to me. And I'll be glad to do it. 一点儿也不麻烦,我很乐意做的。
表示“打扰或麻烦某人时”，可用bother…with/about…. Don't bother your father about it now.现在先不要麻烦你的父亲。
bother表示“费心”时，有多种表达方法，而且多用否定句式。bother (oneself) to do是不定式。bother (oneself) about后面跟名词或动名词。 Don't bother to answer this.不要费心去答复它。 Don't bother about answering this.
have bother (in)…（担心做某事）结构中，in后面要接名词或动名词，常可省略in。 I didn't have much bother (in) getting him to go with me.我不担心找他和我一起去。
v.(动词)bother的基本意思是“打扰”“搅扰”,指使人受到烦扰或在精神上烦恼; 尤指把某人弄得焦急不安,心烦意乱,心情不能平静或专一,在句中多半用于否定结构。
bother在表示“烦扰”“烦恼”时,除人体的head, brain, heart等或由人组成的机构、组织以及个别俚语(如bother the record)以外, bother一般不用事实作直接宾语; bother着重“打扰”行为的本身,而不指由此而产生的“烦躁”“不安”状态,因此表达“感觉烦躁”这个意思时,不能说I feel bothered.而应说I feel restless.
bother可用作不及物动词,也可用作及物动词。表示“某事或某人使某人操心或焦急”时以“原因”为主语，以人为宾语；表示“为某事而操心或焦急”时以人作主语，“某事”则由with或about引出。在全否定句中,bother可接动词不定式或动名词(可认为其前省略了介词about)作宾语,两者意思上无明显差别。bother还可接以动词不定式充当宾语补足语的复合宾语。bother可用于被动结构,语气要比主动结构时稍强。
bother在口语中还可用作感叹语，意为“讨厌”,表示不耐烦或厌恶的感叹。
下面7个句子意思都是一样的: Don't bother to get dinner for me.Don't bother getting dinner for me.Don't bother about getting dinner for me.Don't bother with dinner for me.Don't bother yourself to get dinner for me.Don't bother yourself getting dinner for me.Don't bother yourself about getting dinner for me.请不要为我费事做饭。
n.(名词)bother作“麻烦”“不便”“忧虑”解时是不可数名词; 作“令人烦恼的人或事物”“引起麻烦的人或事物”解时是可数名词，其前可加不定冠词。
bother也可作“努力”解,是不可数名词。
bother在作“斗殴”“暴力行为”解时,多用在英式英语的非正式口语中。
