bothersome
/ˈbɒðəs(ə)m/
- Syllables
- 3 syllables
- Stress
- 1st syllable stress
- Vowel
- Schwa vowel
- Ending
- Final e often stays silent
bot - her - some -> bothersome
bother /'bɒðǝ(r)/ v
၁။ (က) ~ sb (about/with sth) စိတ် အနှောင့်အယှက်ပေးသည်။ စိတ်ရှုပ်စေသည်။ I'm sorry to bother you, but could you tell me the way to the station? ❍ Does the pain from your operation bother you much? ❍ Does my smoking bother you? ❍ Don't bother your father (about it) now; he's very tired. ❍ She's always bothering me to lend her money.
(ခ) စိတ် အနှောင့်အယှက် ဖြစ်သည်။ What's bothering you? ❍ Don't let his criticisms bother you. ❍ It bothers me that he can be so insensitive. ❍ She didn't seem to be bothered. ❍ I'm not really bothered who wins. ဘယ်သူပဲနိုင်နိုင် ငါဂရုမစိုက်ဘူး။
၂။ (က) ~ (with sth) အပင်ပန်းခံသည်။ ဒုက္ခခံသည်။ ‘Shall I help you with the washing-up?’ ‘Don't bother—I'll do it later. ’ ❍ Don't bother with the dirty dishes. ❍ He didn't even bother to say thank you. ❍ I didn't bother asking why. ❍ Why bother going to the cinema when you can see so many good films on television? (ခ) ~ about sb/ sth ပူသည်။ စိုးရိမ်သည်။ Don't bother about us—we'll join you later. ❍ It's not worth bothering about. စိတ်ပူလောက်စရာ မဟုတ်ပါဘူး။
၃။ (Brit ) (မကျေမနပ်နှင့်ရေရွတ်သော စကား)။ Bother this car! It's always breaking down.
n
၁။ [U] ဒုက္ခ။ ဒုက္ခသုက္ခ။ အပန်းကြီးခြင်း။ ကရိကထ။ You seem to be in a spot of bother. ❍ Did you have much bother finding the house? ❍ ‘Thanks for your help!’ ‘It was no bother. ’ ❍ I'm sorry to have put you to all this bother (ie to have caused you so much trouble). ❍ They went to a lot of bother (ie took a lot of time or trouble).
၂။ a bother [sing] စိတ်ညစ်စရာ။ ပြဿနာ။ What a bother! We've missed the bus.
interj (Brit ) (စိတ်အနှောင့်အယှက်ဖြစ်ကြောင်းပြစကား)။ ပြဿနာပဲ။ ဒုက္ခပဲ။ Oh bother! I've left my money at home.
❏ botheration /bɒðǝ'reÇʃn/ interj (dated infml ) = BOTHER interj
❏ bother oneself/one's head about sth [IDM ] ဦးနှောက် ခြောက်ခံသည်။ ပူသည်။ Don't bother your pretty little head about a thing— leave it all to me!
❏ bothersome /-sǝm/ adj ဒုက္ခပေးသော။ အနှောင့်အယှက် ပေးသော။
❏ can't be bothered (to do sth) [IDM ] ကရိကထများ လို့ မလုပ်နိုင်သေး၊ ဂရုမစိုက်နိုင်သေး။ The grass needs cutting but I can't be bothered to do it today. ❍ She's capable of producing excellent work but usually she can't be bothered.
- [bother to do something] : It was such a stupid question, I didn’t even bother to reply.
- Has anyone ever bothered to ask the students for their opinion?
- [bother about] : Don’t bother about driving me home, I’ll walk.
- [bother with] : Why bother with a car when you have such good public transport here?
- [bother doing something] : He won’t come, so why bother inviting him?
- I called your office because I didn’t want to bother you at home.
- Are the children bothering you?
- Doesn’t the noise bother you when you’re trying to sleep?
- There was something about him that really bothered her.
- [it bothers someone that/when] : Does it bother you that people think you’re older than him?
- If he keeps bothering you, you should call the police.
- I could see that his knee was bothering him.
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