You can picture bothered as the state of having something small but nagging sitting in your head — it keeps tugging at your attention and takes up room there. Because English speakers so often use it with not, the word is heard most in the shape 'I'm not bothered': nothing is tugging, so nothing needs deciding.
可以想成:心裡有件事一直在扯你的注意力,不見得多嚴重,但就是佔著位置、放不下。bothered 講的就是「被那件事纏著」的狀態。也因為英語裡很常搭配 not 使用,你最常聽到的其實是反過來的樣子——沒有東西在扯我,所以我不介意。
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
botheredadj
- 1
Annoyed; irritated.
- 2
Caring about something; discomposed.
- I'm not bothered if he chooses to ignore our anniversary. It's his problem.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary,已精簡格式;依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用,改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。