Botheration

Definition

bother /'bɒðǝ(r)/ v ၁။ (က) ~ sb (about/with sth) စိတ္ အေႏွာင့္အယွက္ေပးသည္။ စိတ္႐ႈပ္ေစသည္။ 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) စိတ္ အေႏွာင့္အယွက္ ျဖစ္သည္။ 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. ဘယ္သူပဲႏိုင္ႏိုင္ ငါဂ႐ုမစိုက္ဘူး။ ၂။ (က) ~ (with sth) အပင္ပန္းခံသည္။ ဒုကၡခံသည္။ ‘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 ပူသည္။ စိုးရိမ္သည္။ Don't bother about us—we'll join you later. ❍ It's not worth bothering about. စိတ္ပူေလာက္စရာ မဟုတ္ပါဘူး။ ၃။ ( Brit ) (မေက်မနပ္ႏွင့္ေရရြတ္ေသာ စကား)။ Bother this car! It's always breaking down. n ၁။ [U] ဒုကၡ။ ဒုကၡသုကၡ။ အပန္းႀကီးျခင္း။ 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] စိတ္ညစ္စရာ။ ျပႆနာ။ What a bother! We've missed the bus. interj ( Brit ) (စိတ္အေႏွာင့္အယွက္ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္းျပစကား)။ ျပႆနာပဲ။ ဒုကၡပဲ။ 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 ] ဦးေႏွာက္ ေျခာက္ခံသည္။ ပူသည္။ Don't bother your pretty little head about a thing— leave it all to me! ❏ bothersome /-sǝm/ adj ဒုကၡေပးေသာ။ အေႏွာင့္အယွက္ ေပးေသာ။ ❏ can't be bothered (to do sth) [ IDM ] ကရိကထမ်ား လို႔ မလုပ္ႏိုင္ေသး၊ ဂ႐ုမစိုက္ႏိုင္ေသး။ 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.

Examples

1. [bother to do something] : It was such a stupid question
2. I didn’t even bother to reply.
3. Has anyone ever bothered to ask the students for their opinion?
4. [bother about] : Don’t bother about driving me home
5. I’ll walk.
6. [bother with] : Why bother with a car when you have such good public transport here?
7. [bother doing something] : He won’t come
8. so why bother inviting him?
9. I called your office because I didn’t want to bother you at home.
10. Are the children bothering you?
11. Doesn’t the noise bother you when you’re trying to sleep?
12. There was something about him that really bothered her.
13. [it bothers someone that/when] : Does it bother you that people think you’re older than him?
14. If he keeps bothering you
15. you should call the police.
16. I could see that his knee was bothering him.