bore

Word family  noun bore boredom adjective bored boring verb bore adverb boringly

 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++bore1 /bɔː $ bɔːr/ verb  x-refthe past tense of bear bear的过去式→ See Verb table

Examples from the Corpus

bore• And it is not true that a girl decides in junior high that math is, like, so boring.• The mining company bored a 5000 foot hole.• He bores everyone with his stories about his girlfriends.• Being alone with a baby all day bored her to tears.• Not just resistant to the pitter patter of bored kiddie feet but immune to assaults from the outside as well.• Poetry bores me.• It bore out the warnings received from MI6.• 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.• The machine they used to bore the tunnel is the size of a two storey house.• They had to bore through solid rock.• I will tell you frankly the word Marxism is very boring to me.• Am I boring you?

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bore2 ●●○ verb  1  [transitive]BORING to make someone feel bored, especially by talking too much about something they are not interested in 〔尤因啰嗦〕使厌烦 He’s the sort of person who bores you at parties. 他这人会在派对上烦你。 a film that will bore its young audience 会让年轻观众感到无聊的一部电影bore somebody with something I won’t bore you with all the technical details. 我不想讲技术上的细节让大家烦。bore somebody to death/tears (=make them very bored) 使某人厌烦得要命2  [intransitive, transitive]TECTI to make a deep round hole in a hard surface 钻（孔），开凿，挖（洞）bore something through/into/in something The machine bores a hole through the cards. 机器会在卡上打一个洞。bore through/into To build the tunnel they had to bore through solid rock. 为了修建这条隧道，他们得打通坚硬的岩石。► see thesaurus at dig3. [intransitive + 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→ See Verb table

Examples from the Corpus

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.bore through/into• My damp eyes bored through him.• Those with high energies, such as iron, would penetrate the craft and bore through human cells.• The eyes of the other children bore through me.• Posted in huge letters on classroom walls, the words bore into plebes.• The drill is powerful enough to bore through solid rock.• He bored into the core of our command and control business, and was particularly masterful in assessing deficiencies and correcting them.• But that evening, pulp mill workers crept beneath the building and bored through the floor and into the barrels stored there.• One of the drillers was told if drilling started he would be bored through the ground.• They hatch out in 3-4 weeks and the larvae bore into the wood.

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bore3 ●●○ noun  1  [singular]WANT something that is not interesting to you or that annoys you 令人厌烦的事 Waiting is a bore. 等人很没劲。 You’ll find it’s a terrible bore. 你会觉得这事极无聊。2  [countable]BORING someone who is boring, especially because they talk too much about themselves or about things that do not interest you 令人厌烦的人 He turned out to be a crashing bore (=used to emphasize that someone is very boring). 他这人原来无聊透顶。3  PMW[singular] the measurement of the width of the inside of a long hollow object such as a pipe or the barrel of a gun 〔管道或枪管等的〕口径，内径 Take a length of piping with a bore of about 15 mm. 带上一根口径为15毫米左右的管子。12-/16-/20- etc bore a 12-bore shotgun 一把12毫米口径的猎枪wide-/narrow-/fine- bore a fine-bore tube 细口径管子4  [singular] a wave of water that moves quickly along a river from the sea at particular times of the year 涌潮〔每年特定时间涌入河流的海潮〕 the Severn bore 塞文河涌潮5. TECTI[countable] a borehole 钻孔，井眼

Examples from the Corpus

bore• a 12-bore shotgun• Washing the dishes is a bore.• Winston is such a bore!• Whereupon the media, denied the excitements that they had trumpeted, declared the whole event a big, irrelevant bore.• Solitons are solitary waves; the Severn bore is a good example.• Gluck was armed with an incredibly heavy musket, a single-shot museum piece with an octagonal barrel and a smooth bore.• At parties she always gets stuck with some bore who wants to tell her the story of his life.• It was in the direction of Temple Bar Creek and the Mereenie water bores.wide-/narrow-/fine- bore• This process can be hastened by gentle pipetting of the egg masses through a wide bore glass mouth pipette.• Those who could not take this minimum daily requirement orally were fed by fine bore nasogastric tube.

bore1 verbbore2 verbbore3 nounChinese  

of the bear tense past Corpus

bore

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bore¹ /bɔː $ bɔːr/
the past tense of bear

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bore² verb
1. [transitive] to make someone feel bored, especially by talking too much about something they are not interested in:
    He’s the sort of person who bores you at parties.
    a film that will bore its young audience
    bore somebody with something
    I won’t bore you with all the technical details.
    bore somebody to death/tears (=make them very bored)
2. [intransitive and transitive] to make a deep round hole in a hard surface
    bore something through/into/in something
    The machine bores a hole through the cards.
    bore through/into
    To build the tunnel they had to bore through solid rock.
3. [intransitive + into] if someone’s eyes bore into you, they look at you in a way that makes you feel uncomfortable
     

THESAURUS

   ▪ dig to make a hole in the ground using your hands, a tool, or a machine: Some workmen were digging a trench at the side of the road. | In Africa, the people know where to dig for water.
   ▪ make a hole to dig a hole in the ground, using your hands or a tool: Make a hole just big enough for the plant’s roots.
   ▪ burrow /ˈbʌrəʊ $ ˈbɜːroʊ/ if an animal burrows, it makes a hole or a passage in the ground by digging the earth with its feet, nose etc: The rabbits had burrowed a hole under the fence.
   ▪ plough British English, plow American English /plaʊ/ to turn over the soil using a machine or a tool pulled by animals, to prepare the soil for planting seeds: The farmers here still plough their fields using buffaloes.
   ▪ excavate /ˈekskəveɪt/ formal to dig a large hole in the ground, especially as a preparation for building something: The men began excavating the hole for the pool.
   ▪ bore to make a deep round hole in the ground using a special machine, especially in order to look for oil or water: Companies need a special licence to bore for oil.

III

bore³ noun1. [singular] something that is not interesting to you or that annoys you:
    Waiting is a bore.
    You’ll find it’s a terrible bore.
2. [countable] someone who is boring, especially because they talk too much about themselves or about things that do not interest you:
    He turned out to be a crashing bore (=used to emphasize that someone is very boring).
3. [singular] the measurement of the width of the inside of a long hollow object such as a pipe or the barrel of a gun:
    Take a length of piping with a bore of about 15 mm.
    12-/16-/20- etc bore
    a 12-bore shotgun
    wide-/narrow-/fine- bore
    a fine-bore tube
4. [singular] a wave of water that moves quickly along a river from the sea at particular times of the year:
    the Severn bore
5. [countable] a borehole
     

THESAURUS

■ to make a hole in something
   ▪ make a hole in something to cause a hole to appear in something: Make a hole in the bottom of the can using a hammer and nail.
   ▪ pierce to make a small hole in or through something, using a pointed object: The dog's teeth had pierced her skin. | Shelley wanted to have her ears pierced (=for earrings).
   ▪ prick to make a very small hole in the surface of something, using a pointed object: Prick the potatoes before baking them. | My finger was bleeding where the needle had pricked it.
   ▪ punch to make a hole through paper or flat material using a metal tool or other sharp object: I bought one of those things for punching holes in paper. | You have to get your ticket punched before you get on the train.
   ▪ puncture to make a small hole in something, especially something where skin or a wall surrounds a softer or hollow inside part: The bullet had punctured his lung.
   ▪ perforate formal to make a hole or holes in something: Fragments of the bullet had perforated his intestines.
   ▪ drill to make a hole using a special tool, often one which turns round and round very quickly: The dentist started drilling a hole in my tooth. | They won a contract to drill for oil in the area.
   ▪ bore to make a deep round hole through a rock, into the ground etc: They had to bore through solid rock. | The men were boring a hole for the tunnel.