bore2 ●●○ verb1 [transitiveT]BORING to make someone feel bored, especially by talking too much about something they are not interested in 〔尤因啰嗦〕使厭煩He’s the sort of person who bores you at parties. 他這人會在派對上煩你。
a film that will bore its young audience 會讓年輕觀衆感到無聊的一部電影
bore somebody with somethingI won’t bore you with all the technical details. 我不想講技術上的細節讓大家煩。
bore somebody to death/tears (=make them very bored) 使某人厭煩得要命
2 [intransitiveI, transitiveT]TECTI to make a deep round hole in a hard surface 鑽(孔),開鑿,挖(洞)bore something through/into/in somethingThe machine bores a hole through the cards. 機器會在卡上打一個洞。
bore through/intoTo build the tunnel they had to bore through solid rock. 爲了修建這條隧道,他們得打通堅硬的岩石。
► 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.