Please help to explain some words.
1. Sentence: "This one is about the horse and the donkey where the horse doesn't bother to help the donkey."
1.1. Can I understand "This one is about the ..." become "This is a story about the ..."?
1.2. What does "bother" mean? like "make an effort" or "worry about something" or "think about something"?

2. Sentence: "He load everything on to his donkey. As soon as he had got the donkey loaded up."
- Can I understand "he had got the donkey loaded up" become "as soon as the donkey was loaded up"? Loaded up means load full?

Thank you.

Question

Please help to explain some words.
1. Sentence: "This one is about the horse and the donkey where the horse doesn't bother to help the donkey."
   1.1. Can I understand "This one is about the ..." become "This is a story about the ..."?
   1.2. What does "bother" mean? like "make an effort" or "worry about something" or "think about something"?

2. Sentence: "He load everything on to his donkey. As soon as he had got the donkey loaded up."
 - Can I understand "he had got the donkey loaded up" become "as soon as the donkey was loaded up"? Loaded up means load full?

Thank you.

Answer

1.1 Yes. "This one is about..." can be replaced with "This story is about...".

"This is a story..." loses what appears to be a reference to other stories that are also being discussed. For example, "We have three stories. This one is about a dog, this one is about a cat, and this one is about the horse and the donkey..."

1.2 In this usage, "bother" means "make an effort".

2 "Loaded up" means that the act of loading is complete. It does not necessarily mean that the donkey was fully loaded. If the donkey is loaded up, everything that is supposed to be loaded on the donkey has been loaded.

Answer

You are right. "one" is a pronoun which replaces "story".   "bother" in this context means make no effort because you don't care or are not interested.  "to get sth loaded up" means to do the work needed to make sure that sth is fully loaded.

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