1. 1令人擔憂的、堪憂的(用來形容事情,不是形容人的心情)。偏書面語,美式英文較常用;英式多說 worrying。

    Worrisome describes a thing — a situation, a number, a symptom, a piece of news — that makes people anxious. It points at the cause of the feeling, never at the person having it. The suffix -some means 'causing this' or 'tending to this', the same as in and tiresome. Two things worth knowing. First, register: worrisome is more formal and more written than 'worrying', and it is much in American English. British and Australian speakers usually say 'worrying'; in Taiwan, textbooks and news follow both, so you will meet both. Second, strength: worrisome is a measured word, the word of a doctor, an editorial, or a report. 'A worrisome trend', 'a worrisome drop in sales', 'the test results are worrisome'. It says there is real reason for concern, calmly — it is not panic. If you want the everyday spoken version, say 'that worries me' or 'that's worrying'. You will also see it, less often, describing a person who bothers others rather than one who feels bothered, but that use is rare today.

組成worry(擔心)+ -some(形容詞字尾,表示「引起…的、容易…的」)。同一個字尾也出現在 troublesome(麻煩的)、tiresome(累人的)、bothersome(惱人的)。

同家族的字

  • troublesomesame -some ending: causing trouble.
  • tiresomesame -some ending: causing tiredness or boredom.
  • burdensomesame -some ending: causing a burden.
  • worriershares worry, from the other side — the person who feels it.

原始詞典資料2 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,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。

worrisomeadj/ˈwʌɹisəm/

  • 1

    Causing worry; perturbing or vexing.

    • He ’s got a cow, too; she ’s got the worrisomest horns ever was. I believe she ’s a steer anyway.
    • OUR “WORRISOMEST” WEEDS / Johnson grass and Bermuda grass will be growing fast by late May.
  • 2

    Inclined to worry.

    • I use to would perform that song when I was singin in Chance’s band. We had a real sweet, dreamy, Dinah Washington-kinda arrangement of it that’d make even the worrisomest drunk pipe down and listen.

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