Bore
[bɔː] or [bɔr]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a hole or passage made by a drill; usually made for exploratory purposes.
(noun.) diameter of a tube or gun barrel.
(noun.) a person who evokes boredom.
(verb.) make a hole, especially with a pointed power or hand tool; 'don't drill here, there's a gas pipe'; 'drill a hole into the wall'; 'drill for oil'; 'carpenter bees are boring holes into the wall'.
(verb.) cause to be bored.
手打:撒迪厄斯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(imp.) of Bear
(v. t.) To perforate or penetrate, as a solid body, by turning an auger, gimlet, drill, or other instrument; to make a round hole in or through; to pierce; as, to bore a plank.
(v. t.) To form or enlarge by means of a boring instrument or apparatus; as, to bore a steam cylinder or a gun barrel; to bore a hole.
(v. t.) To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; as, to bore one's way through a crowd; to force a narrow and difficult passage through.
(v. t.) To weary by tedious iteration or by dullness; to tire; to trouble; to vex; to annoy; to pester.
(v. t.) To befool; to trick.
(v. i.) To make a hole or perforation with, or as with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool; as, to bore for water or oil (i. e., to sink a well by boring for water or oil); to bore with a gimlet; to bore into a tree (as insects).
(v. i.) To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns; as, this timber does not bore well, or is hard to bore.
(v. i.) To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.
(v. i.) To shoot out the nose or toss it in the air; -- said of a horse.
(n.) A hole made by boring; a perforation.
(n.) The internal cylindrical cavity of a gun, cannon, pistol, or other firearm, or of a pipe or tube.
(n.) The size of a hole; the interior diameter of a tube or gun barrel; the caliber.
(n.) A tool for making a hole by boring, as an auger.
(n.) Caliber; importance.
(n.) A person or thing that wearies by prolixity or dullness; a tiresome person or affair; any person or thing which causes ennui.
(n.) A tidal flood which regularly or occasionally rushes into certain rivers of peculiar configuration or location, in one or more waves which present a very abrupt front of considerable height, dangerous to shipping, as at the mouth of the Amazon, in South America, the Hoogly and Indus, in India, and the Tsien-tang, in China.
(n.) Less properly, a very high and rapid tidal flow, when not so abrupt, such as occurs at the Bay of Fundy and in the British Channel.
(-) imp. of 1st & 2d Bear.
整理:诺里斯
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. [1]. Perforate, pierce, drill.[2]. Weary (by tedious repetition), fatigue, plague, trouble, vex, worry, annoy.
n. [1]. Hole, calibre.[2]. Proser, button-holder.[3]. Eagre, great tidal flood.
艾维斯編輯
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Perforate, pierce, weary, penetrate
ANT:Please, gratify, delight
手打:西格蒙德
解釋/意思:
n. a tidal flood which rushes with great violence up the estuaries of certain rivers also called Eagre.
v.t. to pierce so as to form a hole; to weary or annoy.—n. a hole made by boring: the size of the cavity of a gun; a person or thing that wearies (not from the foregoing according to Dr Murray who says both verb and noun arose after 1750).—ns. Bor′er the person or thing that bores: a genus of sea-worms that pierce wood; a name common to many insects that pierce wood; Bor′ing the act of making a hole in anything: a hole made by boring: (pl.) the chips produced by boring.
did bear pa.t. of Bear.
整理:奥拉
娱乐性解釋/意思:
n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
編輯:维姬
例句/造句/用法:
- He was undeniably a prosperous man, bore his drinking better than others bore their moderation, and, on the whole, flourished like the green bay-tree. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- He bore it as long as he could, then went to his piano and began to play. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Laura Fairlie was in all my thoughts when the ship bore me away, and I looked my last at England. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- You mean that she'd shock him and he'd bore her? 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Travel of projectile in bore, 62. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Merely that I consider you a dead bore, I added, as I stepped into the hackney coach and was followed by Julia. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- I could not refuse her requeSt. Her features bore the fixed rigidity of death when I entered her room. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- Sooth to say, they cannot go away too fast, for even here my Lady Dedlock has been bored to death. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Perhaps I had better say, that you must submit to be mildly bored rather than to go on working. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- The horses' hoofs have bored holes in these rocks to the depth of six inches during the hundreds and hundreds of years that the castle was garrisoned. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The hole at the bottom of the lowest was covered with a small pot, into the sides of which had been bored a number of holes. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- But I sometimes think we've always bored her. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- I am happy--I am gratified--I am delighted--I am bored. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- She smiled again as one might in bored indulgence of a questioning child. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- The machines for drilling and boring are the best that money can buy, and the operatives the most skilful to be found anywhere. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Formerly augers and similar boring tools had merely a curved sharpened end and a concavity to hold the chips, and the whole tool had to be withdrawn to empty the chips. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Although by far the largest undertaking yet made, the improvement in rock-boring machinery enabled it to be constructed much more rapidly and at less expense. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- It is too boring, just boring. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- When it is remembered that most of the 7? miles of tunnel was cut through solid rock, by boring and blasting, the immensity of the undertaking can be appreciated. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Paris was dry, and essentially boring. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- This punching of the cold metal without cutting, boring, drilling, hammering, or otherwise shaping the metal, was indeed a revelation. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- He made designs for firearms and experimented with guns to learn the carrying distance of various bores and balls. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- His maleness bores me. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- He bores me. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- A customer wanted some special barrels with nine bores in a single piece of steel. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- There are others beside the _Teniente-Coronel_ asleep in this Brigade Staff and thy emotion bores me. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- Three-barrel guns were also made from one piece of steel, two bores for shot and the third rifled for a bullet. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- But my cousins are bores. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
整理:莫尼卡