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People say “Botheration!” when something small goes wrong and they are a bit — a dropped bag, a missed bus, a stubborn jar lid. It is a mild complaint, not real anger, and it often sounds a little comic. Though actually, it feels rather old now, and rather British: the sort of thing you hear in an old story, or from an older speaker, not from a teenager. Young people would just say “oh, bother,” “oh no,” or “that’s .” The word can also be a noun meaning a nuisance (“What a botheration”), but that use is rare too. The everyday word hiding inside it is simply bother.
真麻煩、真是的（舊式感嘆，不是年輕人日常會說的詞）
組成bother + -ation (a suffix for an action, a process, or the result of it).
同家族的字
- botherthe first piece; botheration is bother plus -ation
- bothersomealso built from bother; describes something that annoys you a little
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，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。
botherationintj/ˌbɒðəˈɹeɪʃn̩/
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datedA mild expression of annoyance or exasperation: bother!
- "Botheration ! Who cares ? Why don't you ask if [our ancestors] carried pocket-books ?"
- Botheration! How she had crumpled her skirt, kneeling in that idiotic way.
botherationnoun/ˌbɒðəˈɹeɪʃn̩/
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datedThe state of being bothered; annoyance, vexation.
- 1803, William Blake, Letter to his brother James Blake dated 30 January, 1803, in The Poetry and Prose of William Blake, edited by David V. Erdman, New York: Doubleday Anchor, 1970, p. 696, I write in great haste & with a head full of botheration about various projected works …
- [...] I am determined to be peevish after my long day's botheration.
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datedAn act of bothering or annoying.
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datedA person or thing that causes bother, inconvenience, trouble, etc.
- [...] the by-products and botherations that go with pleasures make it hardly worth it. Sex is supposedly life's greatest pleasure and look what it gives you.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。