boredom

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bore·dom /ˈbɔːdəm $ ˈbɔːr-/ noun [uncountableU]

BORINGthe feeling you have when you are bored, or the quality of being boring 厌倦，厌烦；无聊

a game to relieve the boredom of a long journey

长途旅行中解闷的一个游戏

the sheer boredom of being in jail

牢狱生活的单调乏味

boredom with

his boredom with life in a small town

他对小镇生活的厌倦

Examples from the Corpus

boredom• Boredom is one of the main reasons kids get into trouble.• It is a tribute to our impatience and boredom that we are already asking this question three months premature.• I get more tired from boredom than from work.• I sit around all day and eat junk food out of boredom.• Some means of escaping the waiting time of boredom and temporary unemployment.• Can you imagine the sheer boredom of doing the same job day in, day out for fifty years?• Amazing as it might sound, boredom may play a factor as well.• I get bored, he said, and I run from this terrible boredom that is the opposite of life.• I couldn't help contrast the boredom with United's exhilarating 4-3 encounter with Liverpool some years back, also in Belfast.• She could no longer stand the boredom of having nothing to do.• There was nothing like a small fire to take the boredom right out of things.• But it drives you mad with boredom.

sheer boredom• Often, the end of their beaks may be cut off to stop the hens pecking each other out of sheer boredom and neurosis.• Misty rain or Sunday lunch, or sheer boredom had dispersed the spectators and Lady Street was deserted.

bore·dom noun

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TOEFL BNC: 7682 COCA: 8671

boredom

noun

ADJECTIVE | VERB + BOREDOM | PHRASES

ADJECTIVE

➤pure, sheer, utter完全厭倦

▸➤terminal極度無聊

VERB + BOREDOM

➤prevent避免產生厭倦感

▸➤alleviate, avoid, combat, relieve減輕／避免／克服／消除無聊感

◇An MP3 player can relieve the boredom of running.跑步時帶着 MP3 播放器就不會那麼乏味了。

➤die from, die of, go mad with (BrE) 無聊死了；無聊得發瘋

◇I'd die of boredom if I lived in the country.如果住在農村，我會無聊死的。

➤drive sb mad with (BrE) 使某人無聊得發瘋

◇Unemployment can drive you mad with boredom.失業會讓你無聊得發瘋。

PHRASES

➤a low boredom threshold (especially BrE) 對單調乏味的忍耐度低

◇Sorting mail is not a job for people with a low boredom threshold.分揀郵件不適合那些不太能忍受乏味工作的人。

TOEFL BNC: 7682 COCA: 8671

boredom

Boredom and lack of enthusiasm: boredom, apathy, indifference...

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