worry

英 ['wʌri] 美 ['wɜːri]

• vt. 撕咬；使烦恼；使焦虑
• vi. 担心；发愁
• n. 担心；烦恼；忧虑

双解释义

v. (动词)

1. vt. & vi. 担心,为…发愁

   be anxious ( about )

2. vt. & vi. (使)困扰,(使)烦恼

   (cause to) be annoyed, anxious or upset

n. (名词)

1. [U] 烦恼,忧愁,忧虑

   an uncomfortable feeling in the mind caused by a mixture of fear and uncertainty; anxiety

2. [C] 令人忧伤的人或事

   a person or thing that causes this feeling

详尽释义

n. 名词

1. 担心，忧虑，发愁，操心
2. 烦恼，苦恼
3. 焦虑，不安，焦心
4. 令人担忧的事，让人发愁的事， 伤脑筋的事
5. 猎狗咬住猎获物
6. 苦恼的根源
7. 麻烦，难题
8. 令人忧伤的人

v. 动词

1. （使）担心，（使）担忧，（使）发愁，（使）烦恼
2. 骚扰
3. 使不安宁，（使）焦虑不安
4. 折磨，咬着折磨
5. 啮碎，撕咬
6. 别担心，不必发愁，没关系
7. 咬
8. 摇晃
9. 撕扯，拉扯
10. 思考（解决办法）
11. 反覆拨弄
12. 为…发愁，使伤脑筋
13. 攻击
14. 熬过，即使再困难也要度过

英英释义

Noun:

1. something or someone that causes anxiety; a source of unhappiness;

   "New York traffic is a constant concern"
   "it's a major worry"
   

2. a strong feeling of anxiety;

   "his worry over the prospect of being fired"
   "it is not work but worry that kills"
   "he wanted to die and end his troubles"
   

Verb:

1. be worried, concerned, anxious, troubled, or uneasy;

   "I worry about my job"
   

2. be concerned with;

   "I worry about my grades"
   

3. disturb the peace of mind of; afflict with mental agitation or distress;

   "I cannot sleep--my daughter's health is worrying me"
   

4. be on the mind of;

   "I worry about the second Germanic consonant shift"
   

5. lacerate by biting;

   "the dog worried his bone"
   

6. touch or rub constantly;

   "The old man worried his beads"
   

例句

用作及物动词 (vt.)

1. The dog was worrying a rat.
   那条狗撕咬著一只老鼠。
2. Don't worry her; she is busy.
   别去烦她，她很忙。
3. The noise doesn't seem to worry them.
   这种嘈声好像并不影响他们。
4. What worries me is how he will manage now his wife's died.
   他妻子死了
5. Don't worry me with your complaints.
   不要老是抱怨,搞得我不太平。

用作不及物动词 (vi.)

1. Don't worry if you can't finish it.
   你做不完也不必担心。
2. Your parents are worrying about you: do write to them.
   你父母正担心你呢，快给他们写封信吧。
3. There's nothing to worry about.
   没什么可担心的。
4. Don't worry about that mark, it will brush off.
   不要为那个污渍操心，那是可以刷得掉的。

用作名词 (n.)

1. Worry and illness had made him prematurely old.
   他心事重重、 疾病缠身，落得个未老先衰。
2. The mother of the kidnapped child was crazy with worry.
   那个被绑架的孩子的母亲担心得几乎发狂了。
3. He's been a source of discord and worry.
   他成为不和和烦恼的根源。
4. He have a lot of financial worry at the moment.
   他现在有很多财务上的烦恼事。
5. That car has caused me no end of worry.
   那辆汽车给我带来了无穷的烦恼。
6. My chief worry is that he doesn't have experience.
   我的主要忧虑是他没有经验。
7. Her tender looks seemed to smooth away his worry.
   她的温柔的神情似乎消除了他的忧虑。

常见句型

用作动词 (v.)

用作不及物动词

S+～(+A)

1. Don't worry. I shall get there safely.
   别担心,我会平安到达的。
2. Don't worry!Everything will be all right.
   别担心,一切都会好起来的。
3. Don't worry if you have arranged to go with them.
   如果你已安排好别人与他们一起去,那也没关系。
4. Tell them not to worry.
   告诉他们别担心。

用作及物动词

S+～+ n./pron.

1. I'm sorry to worry you.
   对不起,使您担心了。
2. Will it worry you if I play the piano?
   如果我弹钢琴的话,会打扰你吧?
3. The danger and difficulties of his work greatly worried his wife.
   他的工作既危险又艰难,这使他妻子非常担忧。
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4. You may be worried if you have a worrying problem.
   如果你有忧愁的事,你一定会感到烦恼。
5. I felt worried then.
   那时候我很发愁。
6. He looked worried and ill.
   他显出忧烦有病的样子。
7. You look so worried.
   你看起来那么焦虑不安。
8. Your father is really worried.
   你爸爸确实很忧虑。

S+～+that-clause

1. The doctor worried that his wound should heal so slowly.
   他的伤口愈合得这样慢,医生感到不安。
2. He worried that he might be laid off.
   他很担心他可能被解雇。
3. The teacher worried that the exam might be too difficult for her students.
   老师担心这次考试对她的学生来说可能是太难了。
4. The doctor worried that she should die so soon after consulting him.
   医生担心,她找他看病以后很快就死掉。
5. I worried that when I got back he wouldn't be there.
   我担心等我回来时,他已不在那儿了。

S+～+wh-clause

1. Don't worry how much you spend.
   不要担心你花多少钱。

用作宾补动词

S+～+ oneself + n./adj.

1. She worried herself sick.
   她忧虑成疾。
2. Some students worry themselves sick over the coming examinations, and so don't do as well as they should.
   一些学生常为临近的考试而过于焦虑,结果考不出应有的成绩。
3. All parents worry themselves silly over the children.
   父母们都为孩子过于大伤脑筋。

S+～+ n./pron. +to- v

1. She was always worrying her husband to give her more money.
   她总是缠着丈夫,向他要更多的钱。
2. He was always worrying me to buy a new car.
   他老是缠着我要我买辆新汽车。
3. The children were worrying the teacher to tell a story.
   孩子们正缠着老师要他讲个故事。

用作名词 (n.)

1. He was showing signs of worry.
   他显出了担忧的样子。
2. A life free from all worry just doesn't exist.
   无忧无虑的生活就是不存在。
3. The boy's poor health inflicted great worry on his parents.
   那男孩身体不好,他父母为之忧虑不安。
4. Please don't be late again without telephoning.I was nearly driven out of my mind with worry.
   如果你不能按时回来,就要打电话说一声,我担心得要命。
5. It's a worry to me having to leave the children alone in the house.
   把小孩单独留在家里真让我放心不下。
6. I have no money worries.
   我在金钱上没有什么烦恼的事。
7. The profit and loss figures have prompted worries over the company's future.
   那些盈亏的数字已经引起了大家对公司前途的忧虑。

经典引文

• His chief worry was that he was unable to be of any further use.

  出自：Times

• Enough..to retire on free of financial worry.

  出自： E. Welty

• She would have found it..difficult to swallow anything that lunchtime, for she was sick with worry.

  出自： C. Dexter

• A dog who once takes to worry sheep never leaves off the habit.

  出自： T. Medwin

• He grew familiar with her hand, Squeez'd it, and worry'd it with ravenous kisses.

  出自： transf.

常用短语

用作动词 (v.)

worry about〔over〕 (v.+prep.)

担忧,烦恼 have sb/sth as the cause or object of deep concern
worry about〔over〕 sb/sth/wh-clause/wh-to-v
Don't worry about my illness; what I need is nothing but a few days' rest.

不要为我的病担心,我只要休息几天就好了。
Look after yourself, my dear, and don't worry about me.

亲爱的,请你多保重,不必挂念我。
He worries over the least thing that goes wrong.

他唯恐有什么差错。
She's always worrying over stupid little things that don't really matter.

她总是为那些鸡毛蒜皮的小事放心不下。
If there is a word you are not familiar with, do not waste too much time worrying about what it might mean.

如果你遇到生疏的词,不要浪费太多的时间去考虑它到底是什么意思。
He worried about how to make his living.

他为谋生发愁。

worry along (v.+adv.)

设法应付下去,熬过去 manage to get through in the face of trials and difficulties
worry along
George worried along six months trying to support a large family.

乔治设法应付了六个月,维持着一个子女众多的家庭。
Don't be nervous about me. I'll worry along somehow.

不要为我操心,我会设法活下去。

worry at (v.+prep.)

拽; 摆弄 pull and twist at sth
worry at sth
You can tell how nervous she is by the way her fingers worry at the edge of the tablecloth.

看她那用手指拽台布边的样子,你可以断定她是多么紧张。
I could see the dog in the garden, worrying at a bone.

我可以看见那只狗在花园中啃着一块骨头玩。

worry out (v.+adv.)

耐心反复地询问〔请求〕而获得… ask about or ask for patiently and again and again to get
worry sth ⇔ out
She is worrying the problem out.

她正在绞尽脑汁解决这个问题。
Don't bother about it. I'll worry out the answer.

你别为这操心了,我会想出答案来的。 worry sth out of sb
The children worried the necessary permission out of their father.

孩子们缠着他们的父亲不放,终于得到了许可。

worry through¹ (v.+adv.)

设法应付下去,熬过去 manage to get through in the face of trials and difficulties
worry through
In spite of her fears, she always worried through.

尽管她担惊受怕,但总是设法熬了过去。

worry through² (v.+prep.)

干完 complete sth
worry through sth
I must worry through the work of the week.

我必须干完这个星期的工作。

词汇搭配

用作动词 (v.)

～+名词

• worry children 担心孩子
• worry examination 担心考试
• worry parents 担心父母
• worry pollution 担心污染
• worry rain 担心下雨

～+副词

• worry abnormally 异常担心
• worry blindly 盲目地担心
• worry desperately 绝望地担心
• worry entirely 完全忧愁
• worry miserably 辛酸地担心
• worry morbidly 可怕地担心
• worry needlessly 无必要地担心
• worry perpetually 经常担心
• worry financially 经济上忧愁
• worry fully 十分忧愁
• worry futilely 徒劳地担心
• worry incessantly 持续不断地担心
• worry listlessly 无精打采地担心
• worry mentally 精神上忧愁
• worry needlessly 不必要地担心
• worry nervously 紧张地担心
• worry passionately 急躁地忧愁
• worry physically 身体上忧愁
• worry secretly 秘密地忧愁
• worry superficially 表面上忧愁
• worry universally 普遍担心
• worry visibly 明显地忧愁
• worry along 设法应付下去,熬过去
• worry out 绞尽脑汁解决,绞尽脑汁想出,耐心反复地询问〔请求〕而获得…
• worry through 设法应付下去,熬过去,干完

～+介词

• worry about 为…担忧,为…烦恼
• worry about the examination 担心考试
• worry about the unemployment 为失业而烦恼
• worry over 为…担忧
• worry over the future 为将来担忧
• worry with 以…使烦恼

用作名词 (n.)

动词+～

• afflict with worry 用烦恼的事折磨人
• bear worry 忍受忧愁
• beset with worry 忧虑重重
• betray worry 显露出烦恼
• drown worry 解忧愁
• endure a worry 忍受一件烦恼事
• experience worry 感到苦恼
• forget one's worry 忘掉自己的烦恼
• have one's worry 有许多烦恼事
• induce worry 引起苦恼
• occasion worry 引起烦恼
• relieve of worry 解除忧愁
• share one's worry 分担忧愁

形容词+～

• big worry 很大的烦恼
• deep worry 极其烦恼
• eternal worry 无穷的烦恼
• financial -ries 财务上的烦恼
• great worry 巨大的烦恼
• household worry 家庭烦恼
• little worry 琐碎的烦恼
• manifold worry 多方面的烦恼
• mental worry 精神上的烦恼
• serious worry 极其烦恼
• unreasonable worry 无端的烦恼

介词+～

• full of -ries 充满苦恼

～+介词

• worry about 对…的担忧
• worry over 对…的担忧

词语用法

v. (动词)

1. worry的基本意思是“(使)困扰,(使)烦恼”,指不停地非难、刺激以致破坏某人平静的心境或使其感到绝望或受挫,强调企图或效果。worry也可表示“担心,为…发愁”。
2. worry可用作不及物动词,也可用作及物动词。用作及物动词时,接名词、代词、that/wh-从句作宾语,还可接以动词不定式或形容词充当补足语的复合宾语。worry可用于被动结构。

n. (名词)

1. worry用作名词的基本意思是“烦恼,忧愁,忧虑”,指因遭遇困难或不如意的事而苦闷,是不可数名词。
2. worry作一件件具体的“令人忧伤的人或事”解时是可数名词。

词义辨析

v. (动词)

worry, annoy, bother, disturb, interfere, interrupt, irritate, trouble

• 这组词的共同意思是“打扰”,用作名词时其区别在于:
• 1.bother表示暂时的、无关紧要的“困扰”“烦恼”。例如:
• They had quite a lot of bother getting here because of the fog.因为有雾,所以他们费了很大的劲才找到这儿来。
• 2.worry表示不必要的、于事无补的“困扰”“烦恼”。例如:
• Money is just one of our worries.钱只是我们的烦恼事之一。
• 3.trouble表示的意义很广泛,事无巨细,并且比worry和bother更正式一些。例如:
• The old lady next door was telling me all her troubles.隔壁的老太太正在对我诉说她的种种烦恼。

n. (名词)

worry, anxiety, care

• 这组词都有“忧虑”“担心”的意思。其区别是：
• 1.care指由于责任重大,担心与恐惧而产生的“忧虑”“担心”; anxiety则指因悬而未决或吉凶难卜的事而引起的焦虑与紧张不安,也可指因即将到来的灾难和不幸而产生的恐惧与忧虑; worry则指由于问题、环境及人而从内心深处产生的“不安”“焦虑”或“烦恼”。
• 2.anxiety仅指感情上的担忧,而care则除指感情上的担忧外,还可以指理智上对某事的挂念或操心。
• 3.anxiety常指由于没有获得某物而引起的不安,而care则是获得了某物之后而引起的不安或操心。
• 4.care的复数形式cares常表示烦恼或引起不安的具体的事; worry的复数形式worries通常指生活中使人操心的事,而anxiety则没有此用法。例如:
• Care had made him look ten years older.操心使他看起来比实际年龄大了10岁。
• The rich had their cares also.有钱的人也有他们烦恼的事情。
• He expressed his anxiety for his son's safety.他说他担心儿子的安全。
• His anxiety for knowledge deserves our praise.他对于知识的渴望,值得我们赞扬。
• As his confidence in his work increased, his anxieties about his work is diminished.因为他对工作的信心增加了,对工作的担忧就减少了。

worry, bother, trouble

• 这组词的共同意思是“打扰”,用作名词时其区别在于:
• 1.bother表示暂时的、无关紧要的“困扰”“烦恼”。例如:
• They had quite a lot of bother getting here because of the fog.因为有雾,所以他们费了很大的劲才找到这儿来。
• 2.worry表示不必要的、于事无补的“困扰”“烦恼”。例如:
• Money is just one of our worries.钱只是我们的烦恼事之一。
• 3.trouble表示的意义很广泛,事无巨细,并且比worry和bother更正式一些。例如:
• The old lady next door was telling me all her troubles.隔壁的老太太正在对我诉说她的种种烦恼。

anxiety，worry，care，concern

• 这些名词均含“焦虑、关心”之意。
• anxiety指对预料中的不祥之事的焦虑。
• worry侧重对未知事态演变的忧虑。
• care强调因出于责任感或顾虑等而产生的不安。
• concern作“关心”用时，是indifference(冷漠)的反义词，侧重对他人健康、安全等的关心，也可暗示对困难、危险或失败等的忧虑。

worry，brood，care，fret

• 这些动词均有“烦恼、担忧”之意。
• worry普通用词，着重使人焦虑、烦恼或深深不安。
• brood语气比worry强，多指沉思、沮丧或忧郁。
• care多指极强烈的关心和忧虑。常带纯客观的意味。
• fret通常指因悲哀、焦虑或忧愁等所困扰的心理状态。

常见错误

v. (动词)

1. 他们不用为钱发愁。

   误 They didn't have to worry for money.

   正 They didn't have to worry about money.

   析 表示“为…着急”或“为…发愁”,可以用worry about sth 的形式,这里的about不能用for代替。

2. 她脸上充满了焦虑。

   误 She had a worrying look on her face.

   正 She had a worried look on her face.

   析 形容词worried具有被动意义, worrying具有主动意义, a worried look on her face是“她脸上焦虑的表情”的意思,即她的worried look是由别的事情引起的,所以用worried而不用worrying。

3. 我担心他到哪里去了。

   误 I'm worried where he is.

   正 I'm worried about where he is.

   析 be worried about后接宾语从句时,介词about不能省略。

n. (名词)

1. 她有许多烦心的事情。

   误 She has a lot of worry.

   正 She has a lot of worries.

   析 worry表示“烦心的事”时用复数。

词源解说

• ☆ 直接源自古英语的wyrgan，意为窒息。

近反义词

【近义词】

• annoy
• bother
• disturb
• interfere
• interrupt
• irritate
• trouble
• anxiety
• care
• fear
• trouble
• worriment

【反义词】

• comfort
• reassure
• comfort
• reassurance

派生词

n.(名词)

• worrier n. 使人烦恼的人〔事物〕‖worriless adj. 无忧虑的‖worrying adj. 令人担忧的; 使人发愁的‖worryingly adv. 令人担忧地; 使人发愁地