trouble

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈtɹʌbəl/|[ˈtɹʌbɫ̩]    美 /ˈtɹʌbəl/|[ˈtɹʌbɫ̩]|/ˈtɹɐbəl/|[ˈtɹɐbɫ̩]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A distressing or dangerous situation. countable,uncountable
    — He was in trouble when the rain started.
  2. A difficulty, problem, condition, or action contributing to such a situation. countable,uncountable
    — The trouble was a leaking brake line.
  3. A person liable to place others or themselves in such a situation. countable,uncountable
    — ’Cause I knew you were trouble when you walked in So shame on me no-ow
  4. The state of being troubled, disturbed, or distressed mentally; unease, disquiet. countable,uncountable
    — Yet oft when sundown skirts the moor ⁠An inner trouble I behold, ⁠A spectral doubt which makes me cold, That I shall be thy mate no more, […]
  5. Objectionable feature of something or someone; problem, drawback, weakness, failing, or shortcoming. countable,uncountable
    — Your trouble is that you quit too readily.
  6. Violent or turbulent occurrence or event; unrest, disturbance. countable,uncountable
    — the troubles in Northern Ireland
  7. Efforts taken or expended, typically beyond the normal required. countable,uncountable
    — It’s no trouble for me to edit it.
  8. Difficulty in doing something. countable,uncountable
    — She has trouble eating.
  9. Health problems, ailment, generally of some particular part of the body. countable,uncountable
    — He’s been in hospital with some heart trouble.
  10. A malfunction. countable,uncountable
    — My old car has engine trouble.
  11. Liability to punishment; conflict with authority. countable,uncountable
    — He had some trouble with the law.
  12. A fault or interruption in a stratum. countable,uncountable
  13. Wife. Clipping of trouble and strife. Cockney,countable,slang,uncountable
  14. An unplanned, unwanted or undesired pregnancy. countable,dated,slang,uncountable
    — I never had schoolin’ but he taught me well / With his smooth southern style / Three months later I’m a gal in trouble / And I haven’t seen him for a while.
动词 v.
  1. To disturb, stir up, agitate (a medium, especially water). archaic,transitive
    — For an Angel went downe at a certaine season into the poole, and troubled the water:
  2. To mentally distress; to cause (someone) to be anxious or perplexed. transitive
    — What she said about narcissism is troubling me.
  3. In weaker sense: to bother or inconvenience. transitive
    — I will not trouble you to deliver the letter.
  4. To physically afflict. transitive,usually
    — My bad knee is troubling me.
  5. To take pains (to do something); to bother. intransitive,reflexive
    — I won’t trouble to post the letter today; I can do it tomorrow.
  6. To worry; to be anxious. intransitive
    — Why trouble about the future? It is wholly uncertain.

词形变化

troubles plural troubles present,singular,third-person troubling participle,present troubled participle,past troubled past

词汇关系

衍生词
ask for trouble a trouble shared is a trouble halved borrow trouble distrouble double trouble double-trouble engine trouble finger trouble for one's trouble foul trouble get into trouble girl trouble good trouble go through the trouble go to the trouble in a world of trouble in trouble look for trouble picking quarrels and making trouble picking quarrels and provoking trouble picking quarrels and stirring up trouble shoot trouble take the trouble teething trouble teething troubles The Troubles time trouble trouble and strife trouble at mill trouble at the mill trouble at t'mill trouble-causer trouble causer troubled troublefree trouble-free trouble in paradise troubleless trouble light trouble-maker troublemaker trouble maker troublemaking troublement trouble-monger troubleproof troubler troubleshoot troubleshooter troubleshooting troublesome trouble spot troublespot trouble ticket trouble ticket system troublous trubs women's troubles overtrouble trouble the scorers untroublable untrouble
相关词
turbid turbulent

词源

词源 1
Verb is from Middle English troublen, trouble, borrowed from Old French troubler, trobler, trubler, metathetic variants of tourbler, torbler, turbler, from Vulgar Latin *turbulō, from Latin turbula (“disorderly group, a little crowd or people”), diminutive of turba (“stir; crowd”). The noun is from Middle English trouble, troble, from Old French troble, from the verb.
词源 2
Verb is from Middle English troublen, trouble, borrowed from Old French troubler, trobler, trubler, metathetic variants of tourbler, torbler, turbler, from Vulgar Latin *turbulō, from Latin turbula (“disorderly group, a little crowd or people”), diminutive of turba (“stir; crowd”). The noun is from Middle English trouble, troble, from Old French troble, from the verb.
0 次浏览 数据来源: Wiktionary