"state of being bored," 1852, from bore (v.1) + -dom. It also has been employed in a sense "bores as a class" (1883) and "practice of being a bore" (1864, a sense properly belonging to boreism, 1833).
雙語(yǔ)例句
1. Only a uniformed guard stultified with boredom might have overheard them.
只有一名穿制服的無(wú)聊警衛(wèi)可能偷聽(tīng)到了他們的談話。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
2. Meanwhile, the boredom is excruciating.
同時(shí),又無(wú)聊得讓人苦惱不已。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
3. People went bananas with boredom.
人們悶得發(fā)狂。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
4. I started to eat too much out of sheer boredom.
由于實(shí)在閑極無(wú)聊,我開(kāi)始無(wú)節(jié)制地大吃起來(lái)。
來(lái)自《權(quán)威詞典》
5. the double-edged quality of life in a small town—security and boredom