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  • Bore, n.: A person who talks when you wish him to listen.

    Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary

    A finished person is a boring person.

    Anna Quindlen (1953 - )

    A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.

    Bert Leston Taylor, The So-Called Human Race (1922)

    All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

    Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Invisible Monsters, 1999

    The cure for boredom1 is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

    Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), (attributed)

    Someone's boring me. I think it's me.

    Dylan Thomas (1914 - 1953), in Rayner Heppenstall, Four Absentees (1960)

    Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.

    Frank Moore Colby

    Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.

    George Saunders, last words

    A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude2 without providing you with company.

    Gian Vincenzo Gravina (1664 - 1718)

    The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

    H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)

    The nice thing about being a celebrity3 is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault.

    Henry Kissinger (1923 - )

    A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.

    John Updike (1932 - ), Assorted4 Prose (1965)

    The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.

    Nancy Astor (1879 - 1964)

    Every hero becomes a bore at last.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

    The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

    Voltaire (1694 - 1778), Discours en vers sur l'homme, 1737

    The secret of being boring is to say everything.

    Voltaire (1694 - 1778)

    Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale

    Vexing5 the dull ear of a drowsy6 man.

    William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "King John", Act 3 scene 4

    [S]he refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring.

    Zelda Fitzgerald, 1922

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    1 boredom [ˈbɔ:dəm] ynByy   第8级
    n.厌烦,厌倦,乏味,无聊
    参考例句:
    • Unemployment can drive you mad with boredom. 失业会让你无聊得发疯。
    • A walkman can relieve the boredom of running. 跑步时带着随身听就不那么乏味了。
    2 solitude [ˈsɒlɪtju:d] xF9yw   第7级
    n. 孤独; 独居,荒僻之地,幽静的地方
    参考例句:
    • People need a chance to reflect on spiritual matters in solitude. 人们需要独处的机会来反思精神上的事情。
    • They searched for a place where they could live in solitude. 他们寻找一个可以过隐居生活的地方。
    3 celebrity [səˈlebrəti] xcRyQ   第7级
    n.名人,名流;著名,名声,名望
    参考例句:
    • Tom found himself something of a celebrity. 汤姆意识到自己已小有名气了。
    • He haunted famous men, hoping to get celebrity for himself. 他常和名人在一起,希望借此使自己获得名气。
    4 assorted [əˈsɔ:tɪd] TyGzop   第8级
    adj.各种各样的,各色俱备的
    参考例句:
    • There's a bag of assorted sweets on the table. 桌子上有一袋什锦糖果。
    • He has always assorted with men of his age. 他总是与和他年令相仿的人交往。
    5 vexing [veksɪŋ] 9331d950e0681c1f12e634b03fd3428b   第8级
    adj.使人烦恼的,使人恼火的v.使烦恼( vex的现在分词 );使苦恼;使生气;详细讨论
    参考例句:
    • It is vexing to have to wait a long time for him. 长时间地等他真使人厌烦。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
    • Lately a vexing problem had grown infuriatingly worse. 最近发生了一个讨厌的问题,而且严重到令人发指的地步。 来自辞典例句
    6 drowsy [ˈdraʊzi] DkYz3   第10级
    adj.昏昏欲睡的,令人发困的
    参考例句:
    • Exhaust fumes made him drowsy and brought on a headache. 废气把他熏得昏昏沉沉,还引起了头疼。
    • I feel drowsy after lunch every day. 每天午饭后我就想睡觉。

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