| 单词 | bore |
| 释义 | bore (bɔːʳ ) Word forms: bores , boring , bored 1. verb B2 If someone or something bores you, you find them dull and uninteresting. Dickie bored him all through the meal with stories of the Navy. [VERB noun + with] Life in the country bores me. [VERB noun] Synonyms: tire, exhaust, annoy, fatigue 2. bore to tears/bore to death/bore stiff phrase If someone or something bores you to tears, bores you to death, or bores you stiff, they bore you very much. [informal, emphasis] ...a handsome engineer who bored me to tears with his tales of motorway maintenance. I dropped out of high school. It bored me to death. 3. countable noun You describe someone as a bore when you think that they talk in a very uninteresting way. There is every reason why I shouldn't enjoy his company–he's a bore and a fool. Synonyms: nuisance, pain [informal], drag [informal], headache [informal] 4. singular noun You can describe a situation as a bore when you find it annoying. It's a bore to be sick, and the novelty of lying in bed all day wears off quickly. 5. verb If you bore a hole in something, you make a deep round hole in it using a special tool. Get the special drill bit to bore the correct-size hole for the job. [VERB noun] Synonyms: drill, mine, sink, tunnel 6. verb If someone's eyes bore into you, they stare intensely at you. [written] Her eyes seemed to bore a hole in mine. [V n in n] 7. countable noun [usually supplement NOUN] 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. 8. B2 Bore is the past tense of bear1. 9. See also bored, boring -bore (-bɔːʳ ) combining form [ADJECTIVE noun] -bore combines with numbers to form adjectives which indicate the size of the barrel of a gun. He had a 12-bore shotgun. Quotations: Bore: a person who talks when you wish him to listenThe Devil's Dictionary The way to be a bore is to say everythingSept Discours en vers sur l'Homme He was not only a bore; he bored for EnglandTread Softly (writing of Sir Anthony Eden) A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells youThe So-Called Human Race A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patienceConfessions of a Wild Bore Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week Idioms: bore the pants off someone or scare the pants off someone to bore, scare, or charm someone a lot When I was a kid, circuses bored the pants off me, but I'd always wanted to be a performer. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Collocations: bore a hole There's a better way — just bore a hole in the exhaust. Times, Sunday Times The flute bore a hole in bamboo tube. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The larvae feed inside the grain until pupation, after which they bore a hole out of the grain and emerge. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He would scour the walls of the estate house for weak points where he could bore a hole and breach it. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 If the legs on your base are not too far under the top, simply bore a hole in the side of the leg and use the holdfast horizontally. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Bypassing a reservoir, they had to build a cutting, an embankment and a bridge — and bore a tunnel through granite. Times, Sunday Times It was decided to bore a tunnel under the railway for the tramway. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The tunnels for the metro rail are to be made without cutting open the ground, with giant machines boring the tunnels as the river flows above. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Combustion thus took place entirely within the cylinder bore. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Modified choke or cylinder bore was furnished at no extra charge on special order only. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The cylinder bore was increased by half an inch at the same time. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The following table shows the effective areas of differing valve quantities as proportion of cylinder bore. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Every cylinder bore has a nikasil coating giving it a high degree of wear resistance. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 烦扰, 无聊的家伙, 钻 Japanese: 穴をあける, 退屈な人, 穴をあける |
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