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A worrier is a person who worries a lot — not once, about one thing, but as a habit, as part of who they are. That habitual sense is the whole point of the word. You would not call someone a worrier because they are worried about tomorrow's exam; you call them a worrier because they are worried about something every day. It is usually said gently, even , most often about family: 'my mother's a terrible worrier', 'he's always been a worrier'. It can carry mild criticism — you worry too much, calm down — but it is much softer than 'worrywart', which is openly teasing. There is a very common fixed phrase, 'a born worrier', meaning someone who has been like this all their life and cannot help it. Formed from worry + -er, the ending that turns a verb into the person who does it. Note the spelling: worry ends in -y after a consonant, so the y changes to i before the ending — worry → worrier, exactly like carry → carrier.
愛操心的人、容易緊張的人。台灣說「他很會想」「愛操煩的個性」。語氣通常是親切帶點無奈,不是罵人。
組成worry(擔心)+ -er(做這件事的人)。拼字要注意:y 前面是子音時,加字尾要變成 i,所以是 worrier 不是 worryer,跟 carry → carrier 一樣。
原始詞典資料3 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。
worriernoun
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A person who worries a great deal, especially unnecessarily.
- You are such a worrier! I'm sure everything will turn out all right.
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A person who causes worry in others.
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An animal that seizes or shakes another by the throat.
- The person owning a dog which had destroyed sheep could be made to pay for the damage; but the Court should also have an undoubted power to order incurable sheep-worriers to be destroyed.
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。