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烦 (煩)

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Collins Chinese-English Dictionary

烦 [fán]
  1. 1. noun trouble
    不厌其烦
    not mind taking the trouble
  2. 2. verb [谦] trouble
    烦你给我弄杯水。
    May I trouble you to get me a glass of water?
    烦请您给她捎个话儿？
    Could you please pass on a message to her?
  3. 3. adjective [厌烦] fed up
    我烦那些人。
    I am fed up with those people.
    这事真叫人烦！
    It's so annoying!

Comprehensive Chinese-English Dictionary

烦 [fán]
  1. 1. adjective be vexed; be irritated; be annoyed
    孩子老哭，真烦人!
    How annoying it is to have a kid crying all the time!
    你烦什么?
    What are you getting so annoyed about?
    收音机里闯来烦人的嘈杂声。
    躺在床上睡不着，却不知道自己到底在烦什么。
  2. 2. adjective be tired of
    这话我都听烦了。
    I'm fed up with this kind of talk.
    这故事听过无数次，我都听烦了。
  3. 3. adjective superfluous and confusing
    要言不烦
    terse; succinct; pithy
  4. 4. verb [polite] trouble (somebody to do something); bother
    烦交某人
    please forward this to so-and-so
    烦您给她捎个信儿。
    May I trouble you to pass on a message to her?
    烦将此信面交沈瑶，谢谢。
    “烦您个事。”他谦卑地说。

Contemporary Standard Chinese Dictionary

烦 [fán]
  1. 1. 形 心情不畅快
    心里烦得慌
    心烦意乱
    烦闷
  2. 2. 形 厌烦
    这一套我早听烦了
    耐烦
    腻烦
  3. 3. 动 使厌烦
    你别再烦我了
  4. 4. 动 客套话,表示请托,有麻烦对方的意思
    有一事相烦
    烦请
  5. 5. 形 多而杂乱
    要言不烦
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Examples

你烦什么?
What are you getting so annoyed about? → 烦
她这么没完没了地唠叨，真是烦死人了。
Her endless chattering is really driving me up the wall. → 没完没了
他老支使人，我都烦了。
I'm tired of him ordering me about all the time. → 支使
领导现在正忙于规划公司的发展方向，这些琐事就不要去烦他们了。 → 琐事
对顾客的不同要求，她从不嫌烦。 → 嫌烦
躺在床上睡不着，却不知道自己到底在烦什么。 → 烦
烦将此信面交沈瑶，谢谢。 → 烦
看你踌躇满面，一定是遇到什么烦心事了。 → 烦心
他遇到大麻烦了。 → 麻烦
为了这件烦心事, 他夜不成寐。
He was so worried about his dilemma, that he could hardly sleep last night. → 入寐
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Character Decomposition

火
[huǒ]		 + 页
[yè]

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