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/bɔːrd/ · /bɔːd/
Feeling tired and a little impatient because something does not interest you, or because you have nothing to do.
無聊的；覺得沒趣
核心畫面
Think of the feeling you get when the thing in front of you gives your mind nothing to hold on to — a long wait, a talk you stopped following, an empty afternoon. Your attention keeps sliding off, and a low restlessness builds underneath: tired, but not sleepy; wanting something to happen, but not sure what. 'Bored' is the -ed form, so it always describes the person who feels it, not the thing that causes it.
可以想成：眼前的東西給你的腦袋抓不到任何東西——排一條看不到頭的隊、一場你早就跟丟的演講、一個空白的下午。注意力一直…更多收起
可以想成：眼前的東西給你的腦袋抓不到任何東西——排一條看不到頭的隊、一場你早就跟丟的演講、一個空白的下午。注意力一直滑開，底下浮起一種說不上來的坐立難安：累，但不是想睡；想要發生點什麼，又講不出想要什麼。這個字是 -ed 形，永遠描述「感覺到的人」，不是造成這感覺的東西——所以是 I'm bored，不是 I'm boring。原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
boredadj/bɔːd/
- 1
Suffering from boredom; mildly annoyed and restless through having nothing to do.
- He was feeling bored so he decided to play Minecraft.
- The piano teacher's bored look indicated he wasn't paying much attention to his pupil's lackluster rendition of Mozart's Requiem.
- 2
Perforated by a hole or holes.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。