pother如何读

英:['pɒðə]

美:['pɒðə]

pother是什么意思

n.

<文>喧闹,骚动,混乱

vt.

(使)紧张不安,(使)焦虑

vi.

喧闹,忙乱

pother自然拼读

poth·er

pa thr

pother变形

第三人称单数:pothers

现在分词:pothering

过去式:pothered

过去分词:pothered

pother英英释义

noun

a confused or fidgety flurry of activity : commotion

agitated talk or controversy usually over a trivial matter

a choking cloud of dust or smoke

mental turmoil

verb

transitive verb

to put into a pother

intransitive verb

to be in a pother

pother词源中文解释

1590年代,“骚动,动乱”,一个起源不明的词。意思“精神困扰”来自1640年代; 动词意义上的“使慌乱”可追溯至1690年代。据牛津英语词典(OED)称,最初的发音与 other, brother 押韵; 19世纪的发音变化是受到 bother 的影响。

pother词源英文解释

Noun origin unknown

The first known use of pother was in 1591

pother儿童词典英英释义

pothooknoun

an S-shaped hook for hanging pots over an open fire

potholenoun

a deep round hole (as in a road)

pot holdernoun

a small cloth pad used for handling hot cooking utensils

potherbnoun

an herb whose leaves or stems are boiled for use as greensalso: one (as mint) used to season food

pothernoun

fuss entry 1 sense 1

pother 例句

1 I assured her it was not, but she was convinced that this Bristol pother was at the bottom of the trouble.

2 Rising with a gesture of impatience to retire from the field, he cried out: 'There, there! what a pother, to be sure!

3 But the judges were intimidated by the awful pother o'er their heads and were glad of an excuse to drop McCardle.

4 They was quite in a pother yesterday.

他们昨天正陷入困境呢。

5 Eight years later, the political pother is angrier and meaner.

6 These rules they make such a pother about never seemed so vital to me.

7 I told the story to John, who told it to his pother.

我把这件事告诉了约翰,约翰又告诉了他的弟弟。

8 The bone of contention which all this pother was about.

9 I am free, and if there is any power in my brain, any skill in my right hand, I will make such a pother that the world shall hear me.

10 What a pother over a few years of suffering.

11 Broadly stated, the outcome of all the pother has been to restore to an unthankful world what is probably a complete set of the works of Philodemus!

12 What answer my father sent I was not told; but two days later, a little before sundown, I saw a plain, honest-looking man ride slowly up the road in a great pother of dust.

13 All Touraine would believe that the Marquise de Gange was a prisoner in her own chateau; the mob who were fond of her would rise, and there would be a pretty pother!

14 Then he said, "Well?" and said it in a quite commonplace, ordinary voice, as though he wondered what there was to make any pother about.

15 A man who, from having had two memories, passes to not having one at all, is—gently but without any further pother—locked up.

16 He fetched up a sigh as he ended which would have done credit to my Lady Oxford; and Wogan, seeing his friend in this unwonted pother, was minded to laugh him out of it.

17 A great pother, this, over the theft of a few horses, taken as the spoil of war!

18 Barbara had lost her expression of amusement and was honestly puzzled that he should make so great a pother about a piece of idle gossip.

19 Here are the flowers, Miss Brathwaite,” he said, handing her the innocent cause of all the pother.

20 "He is working out that passage in the Politics that your tutor makes such a pother about," said the other.

pother 同义词

3 扰攘

sputter splutter

10 心神不安

jump tweak

12 忙乱

nuts fuss bustle ado knock

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