bored S3 / bɔd $ bɔrd / 形容词

tired and impatient because you do not think something is interesting, or because you have nothing to do :

He was easily bored.

After a while, I got bored and left.

bored with

Are you bored with your present job?

bored stiff/to tears/to death/out of your mind (= extremely bored ) ► Do not confuse bored , which describes a feeling, and boring , which describes someone or something that makes you feel bored : bored students | a boring job

COLLOCATIONS

动词

get bored I get bored if I’m at home on my own all day.

grow bored written She grew bored and started gazing out of the window.

look/sound/feel bored Some of the students were starting to look bored.

副词

easily bored Teenagers are easily bored in the holidays.

短语

be bored to tears/to death (= extremely bored ) Rob was bored to tears trailing around the shops.

be bored stiff/silly/rigid (= extremely bored ) Patti was bored stiff with small-town Massachusetts life.

be bored out of your mind (= extremely bored ) In some of the lessons, I was bored out of my mind.

THESAURUS

bored feeling that you are not interested in something or that you have nothing interesting to do : Julia soon got bored with lying on the beach. | I’m bored. Can we go home now?

fed up [名词前不用] informal feeling very bored and annoyed or unhappy - used especially when something has continued for too long, and you do not want it to continue any longer : He got fed up with his old job and decided to start looking for a new one. | I’m fed up with listening to you complain! | You sound a bit fed up. Is everything alright?

be tired of somebody/something ( also be sick of somebody/something ) to feel very annoyed and bored with something that has continued for too long. Be sick of somebody/something sounds stronger and more annoyed than be tired of somebody/something : People are tired of hearing politicians make promises that they never keep. | Do it yourself – I’m sick of cleaning up after you!

have had enough informal to be so bored with something that has continued for a long time that you decide to leave, do something different, or change the situation : She put up with him for ten years before she finally decided that she had had enough. | I’ve had enough of all this moaning! Can we try and be more positive?