boredom是什么意思？

boredom

英[ˈbɔ:dəm] 美[ˈbɔrdəm]

• n. 讨厌，令人讨厌的事物，无聊，无趣，厌倦；

例句

• Unemployment can drive you mad with boredom. 失业会让你无聊得发疯。
• Sorting mail is not a job for people with a low boredom threshold. 分拣邮件不适合那些不太能忍受乏味工作的人。
• Some children have a low tolerance for boredom. 一些孩子很难忍受无聊。
• A walkman can relieve the boredom of running. 跑步时带着随身听就不那么乏味了.
• A desperate boredom always lay over those things until they got drunk. 这种宴会刚开场的时候总是沉闷得很,直到喝到酒酣耳热前.
• Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice, and starvation. 工作撵跑三个魔鬼: 无聊, 堕落和饥饿.
• Work banishes those three great evils : boredom, vice, and poverty. ( Voltaire, French philosopher ) 工作撵跑三个魔鬼: 无聊 、 堕落和贫穷. ( 法国哲学家伏尔基泰 )
• Work therefore is desirable, first and foremost, as a preventive of boredom. 因此人们愿意工作, 首先是工作可以防止无聊感.
• She observed her guests'expressions glazing over with boredom at the insipidity of the conversation. 她注意到客人们由于对枯燥无味的谈话感到厌烦,脸上露出了无精打采的样子.
• He found the boredom scarcely endurable. 他觉得这种厌烦难以忍受.

同义词

• n.
  boredom的同义词之：冷淡
  sluggishness, disinterest, indifference, uninterestedness, insentience, impassivity, stolidity, dispassion, doldrums, apathy, insensibility, unresponsiveness, lethargy, listlessness, unfeelingness, unconcern, dullness, languor, jadedness,
  boredom的同义词之：厌烦,厌倦
  monotony, dreariness, flatness, tedium, stuffiness, spirits, routine, repetition, schedule, malaise, low, dullness, deadness, humdrum, doldrums, ennui, weariness,

英语六级真题

Migrants to cities are attracted by plentiful jobs, access to hospitals and education, and the ability to escape the boredom of a farmer's agricultural life.
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柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-UNCOUNT
  厌烦；厌倦
  Boredom is the state of being bored.
  例句
  He had given up attending lectures out of sheer boredom... 他不再去听那些讲座完全是出于厌倦。 They often find they begin to chat to relieve the boredom of the flight. 他们发现自己常常是为了打发飞行途中的无聊才开始聊天。

英汉词典释义

• n.
  厌烦;厌倦;无聊;乏味
  Some children have a low tolerance for boredom. 一些孩子很难忍受无聊。 Sorting mail is not a job for people with a low boredom threshold. 分拣邮件不适合那些不太能忍受乏味工作的人。 Unemployment can drive you mad with boredom. 失业会让你无聊得发疯。

英英词典释义

• Noun
  1. the feeling of being bored by something tedious