bored /bɔːd $ bɔːrd/ ●●● S3 adjectiveadj → boardBORINGtired and impatient because you do not think something is interesting, or because you have nothing to do 厌烦的,不感兴趣的;烦闷的 He was easily bored. 他很容易感到厌烦。
After a while, I got bored and left. 过了一会儿,我觉得无聊,就走了。
bored with Are you bored with your present job? 你对现在的工作厌倦了?
bored stiff/to tears/to death/out of your mind (=extremely bored) 感到极度厌烦,极其厌倦,烦得要命
5Do not confuse bored , which describes a feeling, and boring , which describes someone or something that makes you feel bored. 不要混淆bored和boring,前者是形容人的感受,后者是形容某人或某事物让人感到无聊: bored students 不感兴趣的学生 | a boring job 无聊的工作
n You use
bored about a person who is not interested in something:
I'm bored!
You use
boring about something that makes you feel bored:
a boring film
n COLLOCATIONSverbsget boredI get bored if I’m at home on my own all day.
grow bored writtenShe grew bored and started gazing out of the window.
look/sound/feel boredSome of the students were starting to look bored.
adverbseasily boredTeenagers are easily bored in the holidays.
phrasesbe bored to tears/to death (=extremely bored)Rob was bored to tears trailing around the shops.
be bored stiff/silly/rigid (=extremely bored)Patti was bored stiff with small-town Massachusetts life.
be bored out of your mind (=extremely bored)In some of the lessons, I was bored out of my mind.
n THESAURUSbored feeling that you are not interested in something or that you have nothing interesting to doJulia soon got bored with lying on the beach.
I'm bored. Can we go home now?
fed up [not before noun] informal feeling very bored and annoyed or unhappy – used especially when something has continued for too long, and you do not want it to continue any longerHe got fed up with his old job and decided to start looking for a new one.
I’m fed up with listening to you complain!
You sound a bit fed up. Is everything alright?
be tired of somebody/something (also be sick of somebody/something) to feel very annoyed and bored with something that has continued for too long. Be sick of somebody/something sounds stronger and more annoyed than be tired of somebody/somethingPeople are tired of hearing politicians make promises that they never keep.
Do it yourself – I’m sick of cleaning up after you!
have had enough informal to be so bored with something that has continued for a long time that you decide to leave, do something different, or change the situationShe put up with him for ten years before she finally decided that she had had enough.
I've had enough of all this moaning! Can we try and be more positive?