bore
v
1 [I, Ipr, Tn, Tn.pr]
make (a hole, well, tunnel, etc) with a revolving tool or by digging 挖, 掘, 钻, 开凿(洞、井、隧道等)
This drill can bore through rock. 这台钻机能钻透岩石.
bore a hole in wood 在木头上钻个洞
bore a tunnel through a mountain 开凿穿山隧道.
2 [Ipr, Ip, Tn.pr, Tn.p]
move by burrowing 掘进
The mole bored (its way) underground. 鼹鼠在地下挖掘(路). bore, n
1 (also `borehole) deep hole made in the ground (esp to find water or oil) 打进地下的深洞(尤指为寻找水或石油的); 井眼.
2 (esp in compounds 尤用以构成复合词) (diameter of the) hollow part inside a gun barrel 枪膛, 炮膛(的口径)
a twelve-bore shotgun 十二口径滑膛枪
small-bore guns 小口径枪.
bore vt
1 [Tn] make (sb) feel tired and uninterested by being dull or tedious 使(某人)感到厌烦(因单调或乏味)
I've heard all his stories before; they bore me/he bores me. 他的事我以前都听说过了, 那些事[他]真使我厌烦.
I'm bored: let's go to the cinema. 我闷了, 咱们去看电影吧.
I hope you're not getting bored (by my conversation). 但愿(我的话)没让你厌烦.
2 (idm 习语) bore sb to `death/`tears bore sb intensely 令某人极度厌烦
Long novels bore me to tears. 我觉得长篇小说特别使人厌烦. a crashing bore => crash2. bore, n person or thing that bores; nuisance 令人讨厌的人或事物; 麻烦
Don't be such a bore! 别这麽讨厌!
We've run out of petrol. What a bore! 我们的汽油用完了. 真麻烦! bore n high tidal wave that moves along a narrow estuary from the sea 涌潮. bore, pt of bear2.
Anthropologists wondered where the remote ancestors of the Polynesian peoples now living in the Pacific Islands came from.The sagas of these people explain that some of them came from Indonesia about 2,000 years ago.