BORING/BORED1 jobs/books/films/activities etc2 place3 person4 to make someone feel bored5 bored6 the feeling of being bored7 to try to make a situation less boring8 ways of saying that something becomes boring after a timeRELATED WORDSsomeone who is boring and conventional 乏味并遵守传统的人CONVENTIONAL/UNCONVENTIONALsee alsoFED UP1 jobs/books/films/activities etc 工作/书籍/电影/活动等boring /ˈbɔːrɪŋ/ [adjective]something that is boring is not interesting in any way and makes you feel tired and annoyed 无趣的，乏味的，令人生厌的 I don't want some boring job in an office! 我不想在办公室里干份无聊的工作！ a long boring lecture on economic planning 一次冗长乏味的经济规划讲座 What a boring way to spend an evening! 这样子过一个晚上多么乏味啊！ Most people who see a baseball game for the first time think it's pretty boring. 大部分人第一次看棒球比赛都会觉得这种运动相当沉闷。not very interesting /ˌnɒt veri ˈɪntrstɪŋ/ [adjective phrase]especially spokenvery ordinary and not really interesting or enjoyable 【尤口】普通的；没什么意思的 Did you watch that TV show about Prince Charles? It wasn't very interesting, was it? 你看了那个有关查尔斯王子的电视节目没有？不太有意思，对吧? There was nothing very interesting in the local newspaper - just the usual stuff. 这份当地报纸没什么有趣的东西，都是一些老生常谈。dull /dʌl/ [adjective]especially writtenboring because nothing different, interesting, or exciting happens 【尤文】枯燥的；乏味的 We spent a dull afternoon with some of Harold's business associates. 我们一下午都和哈罗德的一些生意合伙人在一起，非常无聊。 This kind of mindless work can become very dull very quickly. 这种不用脑子的工作很快就让人很没劲了。monotonous /məˈnɒtənəsǁməˈnɑː-/ [adjective]something that is monotonous is boring because it always continues in the same way and it never changes 单调乏味的 Life on the farm was slow and monotonous. 农场生活节奏缓慢，而且单调乏味。 The teacher's low monotonous voice almost put me to sleep. 那位教师低沉又单调的嗓音几乎使我入睡。tedious /ˈtiːdiəs/ [adjective]something that istedious is boring and tiring because it continues for too long 枯燥乏味的；冗长的 It was one of the most tedious plays I've ever had to sit through. 这是我不得不坐着看完的最冗长乏味的戏剧之一。 Doing all those calculations without a computer would be extremely tedious. 不用电脑要完成所有这些计算会让人感到极其枯燥乏味。banal /bəˈnɑːl, bəˈnæl/ [adjective]stories, books, remarks etc that are banal, are ordinary and uninteresting, especially because they do not contain anything new, exciting, or original 〔故事、书、言辞等〕平淡无奇的，平庸的 It was just another banal newspaper story. 这只是另一则平淡无奇的报纸新闻。 I was expecting an interesting interview but he only asked a few banal questions about the weather. 我原以为会是一次有趣的访谈，可他只问了几个有关天气的无关重要的问题。mundane /mʌnˈdeɪn/ [adjective]a job, event, or activity that ismundane is boring and ordinary and gives you very little pleasure, especially because you do it every day 〔工作、事件或活动〕平淡的，平凡的，乏味的〔尤因每天都做〕 The play is about the mundane existence of factory workers. 这出戏讲的是工厂工人平淡乏味的生活。 My initial job was pretty mundane, but later I was given more responsibility. 刚开始时我的工作相当乏味，但后来给了我更多责任感。repetitive /rɪˈpetɪtɪv, rɪˈpetətɪv/ [adjective]if something such as a job, speech, or a piece of writing or music isrepetitive, it is boring because parts of it keep repeating again and again 〔工作、演讲、文章或音乐等〕重复乏味的；令人厌烦的 As children we suffered through schoolwork that was dull and repetitive. 我们小时候受过学校功课的苦，那些作业真是既单调又重复。 He has some good ideas, but his lectures can get a little repetitive. 他有些不错的想法，但讲起课来却有点重复乏味。uninspiring /ˌʌnɪnˈspaɪərɪŋ◂/ [adjective]something that isuninspiring has nothing exciting or new about it, and makes you feel bored 引不起兴趣的，乏味的 The restaurant's dessert selection was somewhat uninspiring. 这家餐馆的甜点种类令人提不起兴趣。 Both candidates turned in uninspiring performances in last night's debate. 两位候选人在昨晚的辩论会上均表现得平淡无奇。humdrum /ˈhʌmdrʌm/ [adjective]humdrum existence/life/jobone in which nothing interesting or exciting ever happens and nothing changes 单调乏味的生活/人生/工作 Occasional holidays abroad were the only things that brightened up her otherwise humdrum life. 偶尔到海外去度度假是唯一能够为她本来平淡无味的生活增添一点色彩的事情。 Going to night school might improve your chances of getting out of that humdrum job. 上夜校也许能使你更有可能摆脱那份单调乏味的工作。soul-destroying /ˈsəʊl dɪˌstrɔɪ-ɪŋ/ [adjective]especially Britisha job or an experience that issoul-destroying is extremely boring and makes you very unhappy because you feel that you are a useless person and your life has no meaning 【尤英】〔工作或经历〕极为枯燥的；消磨精神的；令人沮丧的 They spend all day sticking paper labels on toy cars - it's soul-destroying. 他们一天到晚往玩具汽车上贴纸标签—这工作无聊透顶。 Going to the unemployment office and having to wait there for hours is a soul-destroying experience. 到职业介绍所去并在那里等上数小时会令人感到非常沮丧。send you to sleep /ˌsend juː tə ˈsliːp/ [verb phrase]British informal/put you to sleep /ˌpʊt juː tə ˈsliːp/American informalif a speech, performance etcsends orputs you to sleep, it is extremely boring so you completely stop paying attention to it and want to sleep 〔演讲、表演等〕令人昏昏欲睡 All his talk about his financial problems just sends me to sleep. 他那些有关自己经济困难的话真让我昏昏欲睡。 Isn't there anything else to watch? This movie's putting me to sleep. 没别的东西好看了吗？这影片简直让我打瞌睡。2 place 地方，场所boring /ˈbɔːrɪŋ/ [adjective]not at all interesting or exciting to live in 乏味的，单调的 This is such a boring town - there's nothing to do in the evenings. 这镇子太枯燥了，晚上没事可干。 It's so boring here. I wish we lived in L.A. 这地方如此沉闷，我希望我们居住在洛杉矶。dead /ded/ [adjective not before noun]a town that isdead is boring because nothing interesting happens, and there is nothing interesting to do 死气沉沉的，乏味的，沉闷的 In summer we get a few visitors, but most of the time this place is dead. 我们这儿夏天会有少量的游客，但大部分时间这个地方都是死气沉沉的。 It's absolutely dead here when all the students go away for the summer vacation. 当所有学生都放暑假走了时，这地方一片死寂。nothing ever happens /ˌnʌθɪŋ evəʳ ˈhæpənz/spokenif you saynothing ever happens in a place, you mean nothing interesting or exciting happens there 【口】没有什么〔有趣或令人激动的〕事情发生 Nothing ever happens around here. Why do you like it so much? 这里实在没趣，你干吗这么喜欢这儿？dreary /ˈdrɪəri/ [adjective]a dreary place is one where there is nothing attractive or cheerful to see 沉闷的，乏味的 I was living in a dreary apartment in a run-down part of town. 我住在镇上破败不堪的地区内一套死气沉沉的公寓套房里。 Laurie gazed out over a dreary landscape of factories and parking lots. 劳里望着外面一片单调乏味的景色，全是工厂和停车场。drab /dræb/ [adjective]buildings and places that aredrab are not colourful or interesting to look at 〔建筑物或地方〕色调灰暗的；单调的；没有趣味的 When I came to Manchester from Brazil everything seemed so drab and colourless. 当我从巴西来到曼彻斯特时，这里的一切看上去非常枯燥乏味。 You enter the drab office building half-expecting it to be abandoned. 进入那幢死气沉沉的办公大楼时几乎以为这是幢废弃的楼房。featureless /ˈfiːtʃəʳləs/ [adjective]featureless landscape/plain/coast etca large area of land that has no interesting or unusual features 平淡无奇的景色/平原/海岸等 It was flat, featureless coastline. 那是一段单调而毫无特色的海岸线。 In the middle of these otherwise featureless plains is a striking range of mountains. 在这些平淡无奇的平原中间是一片宏伟的山脉。3 person 人boring /ˈbɔːrɪŋ/ [adjective]someone who is boring never says or does anything interesting 令人厌烦的；乏味的 He's so boring - all he ever talks about is football. 他这个人很乏味—讲来讲去只有足球。 The professor was so boring, hardly anyone came to class. 这位教授太乏味了，几乎没人来上他的课。 Pam's parents are nice, but they're very boring. 帕姆的父母很友善，可是非常沉闷乏味。dull /dʌl/ [adjective]someone who isdull is not unpleasant, but their life and their conversation is never interesting or exciting. 乏味的；无趣的 Our neighbours are OK, I suppose, but they're so dull! 我们的邻居为人都不错，只是太没趣了！ I'm afraid I must seem very dull compared with all those interesting people you meet. 和你认识的那许多有趣的人相比，恐怕我一定显得非常没趣吧。bore /bɔːʳ/ [countable noun]a boring person who talks too much about themselves and about the things that they are interested in 令人厌烦的人〔尤因过多谈论自己或自己感兴趣的事情〕 At parties she always gets stuck with some bore who wants to tell her the story of his life. 在聚会上她总是被某个讨厌的家伙缠住，要把自己平生之事告诉她。4 to make someone feel bored 使人感到厌烦bore /bɔːʳ/ [transitive verb]to make someone feel bored, especially by talking too much about something they are not interested in 使〔某人〕厌烦〔尤因谈论太多他们不感兴趣的事物〕 Am I boring you? 我是不是让你感到厌烦了?bore somebody with somethingbore someone by talking about a particular subject 谈论某事使某人厌烦 He bores everyone with his stories about his girlfriends. 他总是喜欢谈论自己的那些女朋友，令人感到很无聊。bore somebody to death/tearsmake someone very bored 使某人烦得要命 Being alone with a baby all day bored her to tears. 一天到晚和婴儿在一起使她感到非常厌烦。5 bored 感到厌烦的bored /bɔːʳd/ [adjective]tired and annoyed, either because you are doing something that you are not interested in, or because you have nothing to do 感到厌倦的；感到无聊的 Dad, can we go home now? I'm bored! 爸爸，我们可以回家了吗？我觉得厌烦了！ The game isn't great, but it might provide some amusement for bored teenagers. 比赛算不上精彩，但可以为烦闷的青少年提供些娱乐。get bored She seems to get bored very easily. 她似乎很容易感到烦闷。bored with Kelly gets a new job, and two weeks later he's bored with it. 凯利得到了一份新工作，两周后他就厌倦了。bored with doing something Julia soon got bored with lying on the beach. 朱利娅躺在沙滩上不一会就觉得无聊了。bored to tears/bored to death/bored stiffextremely bored 【非正式】感到极度厌烦，烦得要命informal There's nothing to do here - I'm bored stiff! 这儿没事可干，我都厌透了！fed up /ˌfed ˈʌp/especially spokenbored and annoyed with something that has continued for too long 【尤口】厌烦的，不满的 Her husband's out working all the time, and she's really fed up. 她丈夫整天在外工作，她感到非常不满。fed up with I'm fed up with health food - I'm going to have a hamburger. 我对健康食品已经腻了，我要吃个汉堡包。fed up with doing something We were all fed up with listening to her complaints the whole time. 她整天在抱怨，我们都听腻了。get fed up When you have to stay in and study every night you just get fed up with it. 当你每天晚上都得待在家里学习，就会感到厌倦的。be tired of/be sick of /biː ˈtaɪəʳd ɒv, biː ˈsɪk ɒv/ [verb phrase]spokento feel very annoyed and bored with a situation that has continued for too long, or with a person who has done something for too long 【口】感到厌倦，觉得讨厌 We're always arguing, and I'm just tired of it. 我们总是争吵，我已经觉得厌倦了。 I'm really sick of him - he's always criticizing me. 我很讨厌他，他老是批评我。be tired/sick of doing something People are tired of hearing politicians make promises that they never keep. 大众对政客们作出承诺又从不兑现感到非常厌烦。 Do it yourself - I'm sick of cleaning up after you! 自己做—我已经厌倦了给你打扫清理！get tired/sick of (doing) something I get tired of eating the same food day after day. 我厌倦了天天都吃一样的东西。be sick and tired of (doing) something I'm sick and tired of your whining. 你整天抱怨，我烦透了。have had enough /həv ˌhæd ɪˈnʌf/ [verb phrase]spokento be so bored with something that has continued for a long time that you decide to leave, do something different, or change the situation 【口】受够了 After 10 years of teaching, Allan has had enough. 教了十年书，艾伦已厌烦透了。have had enough of (doing) something By January I'd had enough of shoveling snow and decided to take a trip to Mexico. 到了1月份，我对铲雪的工作已受够了，就决定去一趟墨西哥。somebody's eyes glaze over /somebody's ˌaɪz gleɪz ˈəʊvəʳ/ifsomeone's eyes glaze over, they look as if they are going to fall asleep, because they are very bored, especially by what someone is telling them 某人变得目光呆滞〔尤因对某人的话感到非常厌倦〕 I could see her eyes were glazing over, so I quickly suggested a break. 我看出她两眼发呆，于是马上建议休息一下。 When you start talking about important political issues, most people's eyes glaze over. 一谈起重大政治话题，大多数人都会变得目光呆滞。6 the feeling of being bored 厌倦的感觉boredom /ˈbɔːʳdəm/ [uncountable noun] Boredom is one of the main reasons kids get into trouble. 小孩捣蛋闯祸的主要原因之一就是感到太无聊。boredom of She could no longer stand the boredom of having nothing to do. 她再也受不了无所事事给她带来的无聊感觉。sheer boredomcomplete boredom 非常无聊 Can you imagine the sheer boredom of doing the same job day in, day out for fifty years? 50年里天天做的是同样的工作，你能想象得到那是何等无聊乏味吗？out of boredombecause you are bored 由于闲极无聊 I sit around all day and eat junk food out of boredom. 我整天坐着，闲极无聊就吃垃圾食品。monotony /məˈnɒtəniǁməˈnɑː-/ [uncountable noun]the feeling of being bored because you do the same things all the time, see the same people etc, and never do anything different 单调乏味；千篇一律monotony of The monotony of prison life is enough to drive anyone insane. 单调的监狱生活足以使任何人发疯。sheer monotonycomplete monotony 非常单调 The sheer monotony of the work is itself exhausting. 这项工作非常单调乏味，仅这一点就令人感到疲惫不堪。7 to try to make a situation less boring 尽力使情形变得不那么沉闷relieve the boredom/monotony /rɪˌliːv ðə ˈbɔːʳdəm, məˈnɒtəniǁ-məˈnɑː-/ [verb phrase] Sometimes she would try out different routes to relieve the monotony of her daily journey. 有时她会走不同的路线，以调剂每天走同一条路带来的单调感。 Harry tried to relieve the boredom by singing and whistling. 哈里靠唱歌和吹口哨来解闷。8 ways of saying that something becomes boring after a time 某事物过一段时间后变得沉闷的说法the novelty wears off /ðə ˌnɒvəlti weəʳz ˈɒfǁ-ˌnɑːv-/ifthe novelty wears off,something that was new and interesting for a short time is no longer interesting 新鲜感慢慢消失 After the novelty wears off, the Internet can be a very dull place. 新鲜感一过，互联网就可能会变成枯燥乏味的场合了。 Once the novelty has worn off, most of these kitchen gadgets just sit in the cupboard, unused for years. 这些厨房小用具给人的新鲜感一旦消失，它们中的大部分就会搁在碗橱里，好几年不会有人去用。