Word · Frequency #5929
bores
使厌烦；使厌倦
bores is the third person singular of bore.
to make someone feel bored or lose interest
- 1.
To inspire boredom in somebody.
使某人感到无聊。
- 2.
To make a hole through something.
在某物上打孔。
- 3.
To make a hole with, or as if with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool.
用钻孔工具或类似工具切割圆孔。
- 4.
To form or enlarge (something) by means of a boring instrument or apparatus.
通过钻孔工具或设备形成或扩大(某物)。
- 5.
To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; to force a narrow and difficult passage through.
通过费力的努力开辟(通道)；强行通过狭窄困难的通道。
- 6.
To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns.
被旋转切割的工具刺穿或穿透。
- 7.
To glare (as if to drill a hole with the eyes).
怒视(如同用眼睛钻孔)。
- 8.
To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.
费力地向某个方向推进。
钻孔；打眼；被钻透；被钻穿；费力开辟（通道）；开凿；奋力向前推进；努力前进；（用目光）逼视；瞪视
In use
His long speech began to bore the audience.
I was bored by the documentary, so I turned it off.
Don't bore your friends with details about your job.
bore sb
He bores everyone with his long stories.
他的冗长故事让每个人都感到厌烦。
bore sb with sth
She bored her friends with endless talk about her trip.
她没完没了地谈论她的旅行，让朋友们感到厌烦。
bore through sth
The drill bored through the rock easily.
钻头轻松地钻穿了岩石。
Connections
Collocations
- bore someone to death
- 使某人烦得要死
- His long lecture bored the students to death.他冗长的讲座使学生们烦得要死。
- bore someone with something
- 用某事烦扰某人
- She bored her friends with stories about her cats.她用关于她猫的故事烦扰她的朋友们。
- bore a hole
- 钻孔
- The carpenter bored a hole in the wood.木匠在木头上钻了一个孔。
Idioms & figurative uses
- bore the pants off someone
- 令某人极度厌烦His long speech bored the pants off the audience.他冗长的演讲让观众厌烦至极。
- bore someone to tears
- 令某人厌烦到流泪The lecture on tax law bored me to tears.那场关于税法的讲座让我厌烦得想哭。
Pop culture & quotes
Learner notes
Memory Tip
想象有人在你耳边不停唠叨（发音类似'剥耳'），让你感到厌烦，这就是bore。记住：被剥耳朵=被烦扰。
Context & Register
语域：neutral 常见场景：everyday conversation、social interactions、describing experiences 该词为中性语域，多用于日常对话中表达使人感到无聊，亦可用于正式场合。
Grammar Note
使厌烦；钻孔
Pronunciation & Spelling
Words like more, store, core share the same ending /ɔr/ and spelling '-ore'. Door and floor also rhyme with bore (with /ɔr/) but are spelled with '-oor'. Board is spelled similarly to bore (bor-) but has an additional /d/ sound, so it does not rhyme.
High-value vocabulary
该词属于 Oxford 核心词汇，值得优先掌握常见搭配和句型。
Usage priority
Collins 词频等级为 3，建议结合例句记忆，而不是只背中文释义。
Learn the forms together
页面下方列出了常见词形变化。学习时注意它们在句子中的语法位置。
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