| 单词 | worry |
| 释义 | wor·ry I. transitive verb 1. dialect Britain 2. a. < wolves worry the sheep > < the dog is worrying a bone > b. < worried his lower lip with his teeth — Jack Dillon > < pounced on a hangnail and worried it with her teeth — Edna Ferber > c. < worried his breakfast rather than ate it — Charles Dickens > < snores that seemed to worry the back of her nose — Richard Llewellyn > < was worrying the pattern of the carpet with his toes > < is learning to worry the sword of his opponent > d. < Lucas worried off the cap — John Updike > — often used with into < we inched a log to the bank … and worried it into the stream — Kenneth Roberts > < the heavy implement had to be lifted …, worried into position, bolted into place — Time > 3. a. < it was unseemly to the last degree that the disciples … should worry and vex each other with injurious treatment — William Cowper > < the artillery worries the enemy with intermittent shelling > < a ghost will worry him to the grave — Ernest Beaglehole > b. < France's government amended and worried the agreement right up to the last moment — Time > < no other play in which Shakespeare worries a word like that — William Empson > < opinions long since discussed and worried to the bone — Current History > — often used with out < will worry out the meaning of a pamphlet … beyond his capacity — J.A.R.Pimlott > < professors … are apt to worry all the light and joy out of knowledge — M.B.Smith > < hotels were worrying out ways to increase services — P.J.C.Friedlander > c. < needled and nudged and worried him till … he consented — Ellery Sedgwick > < the child worries its parents with questions > — often used with out < teacher … began to worry the life out of me to complete it — David Fairchild > 4. < a routine task which permits their minds to wander and … doesn't worry them at night — W.J.Reilly > < his careful repetitions, his imaginative shortcuts … worry the academic mind — Margery Bailey > < what's worrying you — Robert Keable > intransitive verb 1. dialect Britain 2. < the ancient car worries up the hill > — usually used with along or through < worried along six months trying to support a large … family — Scott Fitzgerald > < one must worry through the work of the week > 3. < if her uncle had been troubled … a few years more served only to show how uselessly he had worried — Stark Young > < although sheep and goats do not worry as we do, they can … be brought into states of chronic unrelieved tension — H.S.Liddell > — often used with about or over < began to worry about venturing so far from home in the new car — M.M.Musselman > < pay … a good travel agent and let him worry about this sort of detail — Richard Joseph > < worried over her husband's health — Ruth P. Randall > Synonyms: < a policy of worrying the enemy > < took on the mighty galleons like terriers worrying bulls — Nora Stirling & Ruth Knight > < worried into his grave by the leaden-faced likeness of a British spy whom he had hanged — American Guide Series: New York > annoy may refer to continued molesting, intruding, interfering with, hectoring, or otherwise bedeviling until the victim is angered or discomposed < one or more dogs that will locate the lion … and are almost certain to annoy the wounded beast into disclosing himself sooner or later — James Stevenson-Hamilton > fret may suggest a rancorous eating or gnawing at or a continuing vexing that leaves one no peace < that hidden bond which at other moments galled and fretted him so as to mingle irritation with the very sunshine — George Eliot > < fretting their team into skittishness and then pretending to be terror-stricken — H.L.Davis > harass may apply to continual attacks, persecutions, or exactions that fray, exhaust, or distract < harassed by the depredations of British raiders — American Guide Series: Connecticut > < the new government was harassed by internal controversies and by assassinations, disorders, and insurrections — J.F.Bell > harry may suggest more directly oppressive persecution than harass < had been harrying the main pirate fleets about the coast of Cuba — Marjory S. Douglas > < harrying Southern sympathizers by arbitrary arrests — Encyc. Americana > nag indicates an annoying or discomposing by persistent rebuke or reminder about shortcomings < the only one who nagged him and tried to get him to behave himself — Delmore Schwartz > < let her children's minds alone. She did not pry into their thoughts or nag them — Willa Cather > plague applies to tormenting affliction of painful disease or something likened to it < the gastric disturbance which has been plaguing him for years — Newsweek > < the civil war which has plagued the republic since its inception — Americana Annual > < horse thieves were the worst nuisance, next to Indians; and they would go on plaguing Texas for thirty years — Green Peyton > pester may suggest constant annoyance by or like that by vermin or children < pestered with incredible swarms of flies, fleas, and bugs — Tobias Smollett > < pester the president with urgencies which perhaps no other man in Washington would have ventured — S.H.Adams > bother indicates vexatious troubling, often continued, that interferes with composure, serenity, or concentration < bothered by incompetence in many places, ignorance in others and downright double-dealing in still others — F.V.W.Mason > < bothered with a lot of phone calls asking you to this luncheon and that meeting — W.H.Whyte > tease applies to the annoyance of either repeated importunities or vexing railleries < I say you cannot go and I will not be teased about it — Pearl Buck > tantalize suggests awakening expectation and withholding or frustrating satisfaction < a young dancer, holding aloft in one arm an infant whom she tantalizes with a bunch of grapes held high in the other hand — American Guide Series: Massachusetts > < low islands swing over the horizon and tantalized us with the belief that they were mainland — Farley Mowat > Synonym: see in addition annoy. II. 1. a. < got on better with my work, being free of worry — Mary Webb > < hours of … careful thought, new administrative problems, worry — Bruce Payne > < was in a state of worry because of fear for the loss of her commercial eminence — A.F.Harlow > b. < after a while … my mind comes out of the worry and I start thinking straight — Bant Singer > < is in a great worry about her school grades > c. < has another serious worry about the boys, their tendency to steal > < a bother and a worry … is the London traffic — Richard Joseph > < his biggest worry is transportation > — often used in plural < was also in better health and spirits … fairly free from worries — Havelock Ellis > < wearied him … with household worries — Haldane Macfall > < few are without financial worries > d. 2. < the corpse of the otter was thrown to the hounds … in the worry — Eric Bennett > Synonyms: see care |
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