boring 核心词议:
adj. 乏味的;无聊的
v. 使厌烦;钻;盯着看
boring 基本解释
adj. 无聊的,无趣的;令人厌烦的;单调的,乏味的
n. 钻孔;钻屑
v. 令人厌烦(bore的现在分词)
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词源记忆法
【词源解释】bore←古英语borian(钻孔、穿透)←原始日耳曼语buron(穿透)英语单词bore的本意是“钻孔”。由于钻孔过程通常都是冗长而无聊的,所以衍生出“使厌烦”之意。【衍生词】boring(乏味的、无趣的);boredom(无聊、令人厌烦的事物)
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词语辨析
boring,bored,dull这几个词的词意有区别:
boring是bore的现在分词转化成的形容词,表示“令人厌烦的”,主语可以是人,也可以是物;
bored是bore的过去分词转化成的形容词,表示“感到厌倦的”,主语通常是人;
dull指物意为“乏味的,无趣的”,指人意为“愚笨的,迟钝的”。
词条说明
d和ing结尾形容词的区别;类似单词还有tired/tiring;excited/exciting;surprised/surprising
boring 变化形式
复数: borings
易混淆的单词: Boring
中文词源:
boring
精选例句
1、 But soon after retirement, the golfing, the fishing, the reading and all of the other pastimes become as boring as the jobs they left.
但退休后不久,打高尔夫球、钓鱼、阅读和其他所有的消遣都变得和他们离开的工作一样乏味。[机器翻译,如有错误,感谢纠错]
2、 In the former case, we keep putting off a task because it has either too boring or too difficult.
在前一种情况下,我们总是拖延任务,因为它不是太无聊就是太困难。[机器翻译,如有错误,感谢纠错]
1、 In early May, London’s Boring Conference celebrated seven years of delighting in dullness.
5月初,伦敦无聊大会庆祝了在无聊中快乐的7年。
1、 These poems were verbally inventive and fluent, but also “strangely boring”.
这些诗在语言上很有创造力,很流畅,但也“奇怪地无聊”。
1、 Likewise, automation should eventually boost productivity, stimulate demand by driving down prices, and free workers from hard, boring work.
同样,自动化最终会提高生产率,通过压低价格刺激需求,并将工人从繁重枯燥的工作中解放出来。
常见考点例句:
- Student life is never boring , is it ?
- 学生生活从来都不无聊,不是吗?
- Much of traditional banking is quite boring .
- 传统的银行业务大多相当乏味。
- Alas , boring or disappointing evidence is still evidence .
- 可是,枯燥、令人失望的证据也是证据。
- It 's been a relatively boring business .
- 商业票据市场是已经相对令人厌烦的商业。
- I don 't follow a strict and boring diet plan .
- 我不会执行一份严格而乏味的饮食计划。