bore2 ●●○ verb 1 [transitiveT]BORING to make someone feel bored, especially by talking too much about something they are not interested in 〔尤因啰嗦〕使厌烦 He’s the sort of person who bores you at parties. 他这人会在派对上烦你。
a film that will bore its young audience 会让年轻观众感到无聊的一部电影
bore somebody with something I won’t bore you with all the technical details. 我不想讲技术上的细节让大家烦。
bore somebody to death/tears (=make them very bored) 使某人厌烦得要命
2 [intransitiveI, transitiveT]TECTI to make a deep round hole in a hard surface 钻(孔),开凿,挖(洞)bore something through/into/in something The machine bores a hole through the cards. 机器会在卡上打一个洞。
bore through/into To build the tunnel they had to bore through solid rock. 为了修建这条隧道,他们得打通坚硬的岩石。
► see thesaurus at dig 3. [intransitiveI + into]LOOK AT if someone’s eyes bore into you, they look at you in a way that makes you feel uncomfortable 〔令人不安地〕盯着看 bore• And it is not true that a girl decides in junior high that math is, like, so boring.• Not just resistant to the pitter patter of bored kiddie feet but immune to assaults from the outside as well.• There would be nothing more boring than the landslide that everyone predicted.• Twin towers bore the arms of the railway companies emblazoned upon them.• Those with earnings just above the tax threshold bore the heaviest burden of the flat rate tax as a proportion of income.
bore somebody to death/tears• He was fond of her, although she bored him to death.• No, please no, you're not boring me to death.• You can not do a film about the importance of a free press and bore you to death.