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bore /Ьо:г/ [n С usually singular] a boring person who talks too much about themselves and about the things that they are interested in: At parties she always gets stuck with some bore who u>ants to tell her the story of his life.
exciting happens and there is nothing interesting to do: In summer we get a few uisitors, but most of the time this place is dead, f It's absolutely dead here when all the students go away for the summer vacation.
Qnotfung ever happens .плйи]
еуэг haepanz/ spoken if you say that nothing ever happens in a place, you mean that nothing interesting or exciting happens there: Nothing ever happens around here. Why can't we moue to the city?
dreary I'driml [adj] a dreary place is one where there is nothing attractive or cheerful to see: I was sent to yet another dreary government office. I Laurie gazed out over a dreary landscape of factories and waste ground.
dreary - drearier - dreariest
A\ Use dreary when you are writing
stories and descriptions.
Q when you feel bored
bored /Ьэ:rd/ ladj] tired and impatient.
either because you are doing something that you are not interested in, or because you have nothing to do: Dad, can we go home now? I'm bored! I gangs of bored teenagers wandering around the streets get bored She seems to get bored very easily.
bored with doing sth Julia soon got bored with lying on the beach. + with I'm bored with pasta and tomatoes - let's have something else for a change.
bored to tears/bored stiff informal (=extremely bored) There's nothing to do here - I'm bored stiff!
/К Be careful not to say 1 am boring' when you mean 'I am bored'.
El boring places
boring /'Ьэгпг]/ [adj] not at all interesting or
exciting to live in: This is such a boring town - there is nothing to do in the evenings. I It's so boring here. I wish we lii/ed in New York!
dead /dedj [adj not before noun] a town that is dead is boring because nothing
Оfed Up /.fed 'лр/ ESPECIALLY SPOKEN bored
and annoyed with something that has continued for too long: Her husband s out working all the time, and she's really fed
up.
+ with We were getting the same computer problems every day, and we were all fed up with it.
fed up with doing sth I'm fed up with listening to her complaints the whole time, get fed up When you have to stay in and study every night you jusr get fed up with it.
be tired of sth/be sick of sth
taiord dv (sui). bi: мк dv (sth) ro feel annoyed and impatient with a situation that has continued for too long, or with a person who has done something for too long: We're always arguing, and I'm just tired of it. I I'm really sick of him ~ he's always criticizing.
bi:
very
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be tired/sick of doing stk People are tired of hearing politicians make promises that they never keep, f Do it yourself - I'm sick of cleaning up after you! get tired/sick: of sth He couldn't make a decision, and I got tired of waiting.
born in July/in 1961 etc {-in a particular
month or year) James was born in 1984. born on February 8th/29th August etc
(=on a particular day) Katie was born on 23rd of May, 1992.
BORROW
born in Russia/Texas/Ox/ord etc Jodie was born in a small town in Nebraska.
come from/be fi
from/1 phrasal vera
Д Don't say 'I borned' or 1 have been born'. Say | was born-
ГОШ /'кдт from, bi: ч [phrasa! ver5 T] if you come from or are from a particular country, area, or town, you were born there or spent the early part of your life there: We live in California now, but we're from Boston originally. I "Where do you come from?" "Bari. in southern Italy."
Don't say 'very tired of something' or 'very sick of something'. Say геацу tjre(j 0f
something or really sick of something
have had enough A104, ^l nAt710 be
so bored with something that has continued for a long time that you decide to leave, do something different, or change the situation: After 10 years of teaching, Allan has had enough. have had enougK of (doing) sth I'd had enough of living abroad, and I wanted to go home to England.
the feeling of being bored
boredom /'b^dam/ [n U) the feeling you have when you are bored: cn unbearable