1. 使厌烦;使厌倦
If someone or something bores you, you find them dull and uninteresting.
e.g. Dickie bored him all through the meal with stories of the Navy...
迪基吃饭时一直在讲海军的故事,让他不胜其烦。
e.g. Life in the country bores me.
乡村生活令我生厌。
2. 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.
e.g. ...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
e.g. 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. 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.
e.g. 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。
4. 令人生厌的事;无聊的事
You can describe a situation as a bore when you find it annoying.
bore什么意思
e.g. 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. 钻,凿,挖(孔)
If you bore a hole in something, you make a deep round hole in it using a special tool.
e.g. Get the special drill bit to bore the correct-size hole for the job.
做这个活儿要拿个特殊的钻头来钻个大小合适的孔。
6. 凝视;盯着看
If someone's eyes bore into you, they stare intensely at you.
e.g. His eyes bored into her, paralysing her, robbing her of movement...
他双眼凝视着她,令她全身瘫软,不能动弹。
e.g. Her eyes seemed to bore a hole in mine.
她的目光似乎要把我的眼睛看穿。
7. (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.
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9. see also: bored;boring