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A borefest is an event, a meeting, or a stretch of time that is very, very boring — so boring that people joke it is like a festival of . It is a playful, informal word. You would not put it in a serious report or a school essay. People use it when they want to complain with a smile: a long speech with nothing new, a dry training day, a party where nobody talks. The ending -fest makes it sound like a big event built around one thing; here that one thing is being bored. You will hear it more from speakers who like made-up compounds than in careful formal English. It is countable: What a borefest.
超無聊的活動、悶會(開玩笑的說法)
組成bore (to make someone feel bored) + -fest (a jokey ending meaning “a big gathering of that thing,” from German Fest, “festival”).
同家族的字
- borethe first part: to make someone feel tired and uninterested
- boredomthe noun for that tired, empty feeling
- Oktoberfestthe German -fest ending that English copied for jokey “big event” words
原始詞典資料1 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。
borefestnoun
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informalAn extremely boring event.
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。