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单词 bore
释义
bore
bɔːʳ bɔː bɔr
Word forms: plural , 3rd person singular present tense bores, present participle boring, past tense , past participle bored
1 VERB 使厌烦;使厌倦 If someone or something bores you, you find them dull and uninteresting. 使厌烦;使厌倦
  • Dickie bored him all through the meal with stories of the Navy. [VERB noun + with]

    迪基吃饭时一直在讲海军的故事,让他不胜其烦。

  • Life in the country bores me. [VERB noun]

    乡村生活令我生厌。

SYN tire, exhaust, annoy, fatigue
2 PHRASE 使厌烦透顶;使烦得要命 If someone or something bores you to tears ,bores you to death, or bores you stiff, they bore you very much indeed. 使厌烦透顶;使烦得要命 [informal, emphasis]
  • ...a handsome engineer who bored me to tears with his tale of motorway maintenance

    英俊的工程师不停地讲高速公路养护的故事,烦得我要命

  • I dropped out of high school. It bored me to death.

    我从中学退学了,那种学校生活令我烦得要死。

3 N-COUNT 令人厌烦的人;无趣的人 You describe someone as a bore when you think that they talk in a very uninteresting way. 令人厌烦的人;无趣的人
  • There is every reason why I shouldn't enjoy his company — he's a bore and a fool.

    我有充分的理由不愿和他在一起他又乏味又愚笨。

SYN nuisance, pain [informal] , drag [informal] , headache [informal]
4 N-SING 令人生厌的事;无聊的事 You can describe a situation as a bore when you find it annoying. 令人生厌的事;无聊的事
  • It's a bore to be sick, and the novelty of lying in bed all day wears off quickly.

    生病是件烦人的事,整天躺在床上的新鲜劲很快就没了。

5 VERB 钻,凿,挖(孔) If you bore a hole in something, you make a deep round hole in it using a special tool. 钻,凿,挖(孔)
  • Get the special drill bit to bore the correct-size hole for the job. [VERB noun]

    做这个活儿要拿个特殊的钻头来钻个大小合适的孔。

SYN drill, mine, sink, tunnel
6 VERB 凝视;盯着看 If someone's eyes bore into you, they stare intensely at you. 凝视;盯着看 [written]
  • His eyes bored into her, paralysing her, robbing her of movement. [VERB into noun]

    他双眼凝视着她,令她全身瘫软,不能动弹。

  • Her eyes seemed to bore a hole in mine. [V n in n]

    她的目光似乎要把我的眼睛看穿。

7 N-COUNT [usually supplement NOUN] (每年某一时期海水涌入江河的)涌潮,激潮 A bore is a very large wave that moves quickly up certain rivers from the sea at particular times of the year as a result of unusual tides. (每年某一时期海水涌入江河的)涌潮,激潮
8 Bore is the past tense of bear .
9 See also: bored  boring 
Quotations
Bore: a person who talks when you wish him to listen Ambrose Bierce The Devil's Dictionary
The way to be a bore is to say everything Voltaire Sept Discours en vers sur l'Homme
He was not only a bore; he bored for England Malcolm Muggeridge Tread Softly (writing of Sir Anthony Eden)
A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you Bert Leston Taylor The So-Called Human Race
A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience John Updike Confessions of a Wild Bore
Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week W.D. Howells
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