Recent Examples on the WebAlyssa Thomas quickly grew bored with the line of questioning. Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 3 Aug. 2022 Hickey bored, doodling, during an interminable panel discussion. Jarrett Earnest, The New York Review of Books, 8 June 2022 The foundational study on which Ms. Preston’s hypothesis rests was conducted decades ago and found that post-partum rats would continue to retrieve pups for hours, until the researchers—but not the rat-mommas!—became bored, exhausted and gave up. David P. Barash, WSJ, 6 May 2022 This mutation has made many, many billionaires, many of whom are bored, hubristic, and, here and there, psychotic. Brian T. Allen, National Review, 2 Apr. 2022 Iggy Pop is ‘the chairman of the bored’ who portrays alienation in poetic language. Fred Bronson, Billboard, 8 Feb. 2022 Iggy Pop is ‘the chairman of the bored’ who portrays alienation in poetic language. K.j. Yossman, Variety, 8 Feb. 2022 By the end of the decade, Callner had become bored with specials and excited by a flashier art form in its infancy at another young cable channel, MTV.New York Times, 18 May 2022 But Zink seems not only uninterested but quite bored by what an artist actually does. Brandon Taylor, The Atlantic, 1 July 2022 See More
VERBS | ADVERB | PREPOSITION | PHRASESVERBS➤be, feel, look, seem, sound厭煩;感到厭煩;看上去厭煩;好像不感興趣;聽起來厭煩▸➤become, get, grow變得厭煩;漸漸覺得厭煩◇Some children get bored very quickly.有些孩子很容易變得厭煩。➤remain仍然厭煩ADVERB➤extremely, fairly, very, etc.極其/相當/非常厭煩▸➤terribly, thoroughly十分/徹底厭煩▸➤a little, slightly, etc.有點兒/稍感厭煩PREPOSITION➤at對⋯感到厭煩◇bored at the prospect of going shopping想到要去商店購物就感到厭煩➤by被⋯弄得厭煩◇He seemed slightly bored by the whole process.他似乎被整個過程弄得有點兒煩了。➤with對⋯感到厭煩◇He was bored with their conversation.他對他們的談話感到厭煩。PHRASES➤bored rigid, bored silly, bored stiff, bored to death, bored to tears無聊透頂;無聊得要死◇I remember being bored stiff during my entire time at school.我記得整個學校生活使人厭煩得要命。◇She was alone all day and bored to death.她整天自己一個人待着,無聊得要死。➤bored out of your brains, bored out of your mind, bored out of your tiny mind (BrE) 心煩意亂◇He walked along, bored out of his mind.他一路走着,心煩意亂。