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 bore [bɒ:]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 令人讨厌的人, 激浪, 枪膛, 孔

vt. 使烦扰, 钻孔

vi. 钻孔
bear的过去式

[计] 内径; 孔径

[医] 孔, 洞, 内径, 口径, 钻孔器


  1. She has become an awful bore since she got married to him.
    她自从和他结婚后,就变得令人厌烦透了。
  2. Worms have bored into the wood.
    虫子已经蛀穿了木料。
  3. He bored us all by talking for hours about his new house.
    他连续几个小时大谈他的新房子,使我们大家都厌烦透了。


bore
[ noun ]
  1. a person who evokes boredom

  2. <noun.person>
  3. a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary)

  4. <noun.event>
  5. diameter of a tube or gun barrel

  6. <noun.attribute>
  7. a hole or passage made by a drill; usually made for exploratory purposes

  8. <noun.artifact>
[ verb ]
  1. cause to be bored

  2. <verb.emotion> tire
  3. make a hole, especially with a pointed power or hand tool

  4. <verb.contact>
    drill
    don't drill here, there's a gas pipe
    drill a hole into the wall
    drill for oil
    carpenter bees are boring holes into the wall


Bear \Bear\ (b[^a]r), v. t. [imp. {Bore} (b[=o]r) (formerly
{Bare} (b[^a]r)); p. p. {Born} (b[^o]rn), {Borne} (b[=o]rn);
p. pr. & vb. n. {Bearing}.] [OE. beren, AS. beran, beoran, to
bear, carry, produce; akin to D. baren to bring forth, G.
geb["a]ren, Goth. ba['i]ran to bear or carry, Icel. bera, Sw.
b["a]ra, Dan. b[ae]re, OHG. beran, peran, L. ferre to bear,
carry, produce, Gr. fe`rein, OSlav. brati to take, carry,
OIr. berim I bear, Skr. bh[.r] to bear. [root]92. Cf.
{Fertile}.]
1. To support or sustain; to hold up.

2. To support and remove or carry; to convey.

I 'll bear your logs the while. --Shak.

3. To conduct; to bring; -- said of persons. [Obs.]

Bear them to my house. --Shak.

4. To possess and use, as power; to exercise.

Every man should bear rule in his own house.
--Esther i.
22.

5. To sustain; to have on (written or inscribed, or as a
mark), as, the tablet bears this inscription.

6. To possess or carry, as a mark of authority or
distinction; to wear; as, to bear a sword, badge, or name.

7. To possess mentally; to carry or hold in the mind; to
entertain; to harbor --Dryden.

The ancient grudge I bear him. --Shak.

8. To endure; to tolerate; to undergo; to suffer.

Should such a man, too fond to rule alone,
Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.
--Pope.

I cannot bear
The murmur of this lake to hear. --Shelley.

My punishment is greater than I can bear. --Gen. iv.
13.

9. To gain or win. [Obs.]

Some think to bear it by speaking a great word.
--Bacon.

She was . . . found not guilty, through bearing of
friends and bribing of the judge. --Latimer.

10. To sustain, or be answerable for, as blame, expense,
responsibility, etc.

He shall bear their iniquities. --Is. liii.
11.

Somewhat that will bear your charges. --Dryden.

11. To render or give; to bring forward. ``Your testimony
bear'' --Dryden.

12. To carry on, or maintain; to have. ``The credit of
bearing a part in the conversation.'' --Locke.

13. To admit or be capable of; that is, to suffer or sustain
without violence, injury, or change.

In all criminal cases the most favorable
interpretation should be put on words that they can
possibly bear. --Swift.

14. To manage, wield, or direct. ``Thus must thou thy body
bear.'' --Shak. Hence: To behave; to conduct.

Hath he borne himself penitently in prison? --Shak.

15. To afford; to be to; to supply with.

His faithful dog shall bear him company. --Pope.

16. To bring forth or produce; to yield; as, to bear apples;
to bear children; to bear interest.

Here dwelt the man divine whom Samos bore.
--Dryden.

Note: In the passive form of this verb, the best modern usage
restricts the past participle born to the sense of
brought forth, while borne is used in the other senses
of the word. In the active form, borne alone is used as
the past participle.

{To bear down}.
(a) To force into a lower place; to carry down; to
depress or sink. ``His nose, . . . large as were the
others, bore them down into insignificance.''
--Marryat.
(b) To overthrow or crush by force; as, to bear down an
enemy.

{To bear a hand}.
(a) To help; to give assistance.
(b) (Naut.) To make haste; to be quick.

{To bear in hand}, to keep (one) up in expectation, usually
by promises never to be realized; to amuse by false
pretenses; to delude. [Obs.] ``How you were borne in hand,
how crossed.'' --Shak.

{To bear in mind}, to remember.

{To bear off}.
(a) To restrain; to keep from approach.
(b) (Naut.) To remove to a distance; to keep clear from
rubbing against anything; as, to bear off a blow; to
bear off a boat.
(c) To gain; to carry off, as a prize.
(d) (Backgammon) To remove from the backgammon board into
the home when the position of the piece and the dice
provide the proper opportunity; -- the goal of the
game is to bear off all of one's men before the
opponent.

{To bear one hard}, to owe one a grudge. [Obs.] ``C[ae]sar
doth bear me hard.'' --Shak.

{To bear out}.
(a) To maintain and support to the end; to defend to the
last. ``Company only can bear a man out in an ill
thing.'' --South.
(b) To corroborate; to confirm.

{To bear up}, to support; to keep from falling or sinking.
``Religious hope bears up the mind under sufferings.''
--Addison.

Syn: To uphold; sustain; maintain; support; undergo; suffer;
endure; tolerate; carry; convey; transport; waft.


Bore \Bore\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bored}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Boring}.] [OE. borien, AS. borian; akin to Icel. bora, Dan.
bore, D. boren, OHG. por?n, G. bohren, L. forare, Gr. ? to
plow, Zend bar. [root]91.]
1. To perforate or penetrate, as a solid body, by turning an
auger, gimlet, drill, or other instrument; to make a round
hole in or through; to pierce; as, to bore a plank.

I'll believe as soon this whole earth may be bored.
--Shak.

2. To form or enlarge by means of a boring instrument or
apparatus; as, to bore a steam cylinder or a gun barrel;
to bore a hole.

Short but very powerful jaws, by means whereof the
insect can bore, as with a centerbit, a cylindrical
passage through the most solid wood. --T. W.
Harris.

3. To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; as,
to bore one's way through a crowd; to force a narrow and
difficult passage through. ``What bustling crowds I
bored.'' --Gay.

4. To weary by tedious iteration or by dullness; to tire; to
trouble; to vex; to annoy; to pester.

He bores me with some trick. --Shak.

Used to come and bore me at rare intervals.
--Carlyle.

5. To befool; to trick. [Obs.]

I am abused, betrayed; I am laughed at, scorned,
Baffled and bored, it seems. --Beau. & Fl.


Bore \Bore\,
imp. of 1st & 2d {Bear}.


Bore \Bore\ (b[=o]r), n.
1. A hole made by boring; a perforation.

2. The internal cylindrical cavity of a gun, cannon, pistol,
or other firearm, or of a pipe or tube.

The bores of wind instruments. --Bacon.

Love's counselor should fill the bores of hearing.
--Shak.

3. The size of a hole; the interior diameter of a tube or gun
barrel; the caliber.

4. A tool for making a hole by boring, as an auger.

5. Caliber; importance. [Obs.]

Yet are they much too light for the bore of the
matter. --Shak.

6. A person or thing that wearies by prolixity or dullness; a
tiresome person or affair; any person or thing which
causes ennui.

It is as great a bore as to hear a poet read his own
verses. --Hawthorne.


Bore \Bore\, v. i.
1. To make a hole or perforation with, or as with, a boring
instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of
a tool; as, to bore for water or oil (i. e., to sink a
well by boring for water or oil); to bore with a gimlet;
to bore into a tree (as insects).

2. To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as
it turns; as, this timber does not bore well, or is hard
to bore.

3. To push forward in a certain direction with laborious
effort.

They take their flight . . . boring to the west.
--Dryden.

4. (Man.) To shoot out the nose or toss it in the air; --
said of a horse. --Crabb.


Bore \Bore\, n. [Icel. b[=a]ra wave: cf. G. empor upwards, OHG.
bor height, burren to lift, perh. allied to AS. beran, E. 1st
{bear}. [root]92.] (Physical Geog.)
(a) A tidal flood which regularly or occasionally rushes
into certain rivers of peculiar configuration or
location, in one or more waves which present a very
abrupt front of considerable height, dangerous to
shipping, as at the mouth of the Amazon, in South
America, the Hoogly and Indus, in India, and the
Tsien-tang, in China.
(b) Less properly, a very high and rapid tidal flow, when
not so abrupt, such as occurs at the Bay of Fundy and
in the British Channel.

  1. The relatives said the report, released Tuesday by the President's Commission on Aviation Security and Terrorism, bore out their worst fears about what had happened.
  2. "For a long time, I bore the burden of guilt because I hadn't done more to stop it," he said. "But I've resolved it now.
  3. Paul Cross, JRN's director of special projects, had to look to Hollywood, Calif., to find companies to reproduce the battleship linoleum used on the cafe's floors and the wheel-etched glass that bore the colonel's name on the front of the building.
  4. Tests suggested the letter bore the imprint of a telephone number written on another sheet of paper, the source said.
  5. The suburbs bore me.
  6. The pages of notes on such subjects explain why people such as the late Anthony Crosland regarded economic history as a bore.
  7. His disappointed father, his indulgent mother, his vigorously heterosexual brother make up a dysfunctional family which bore the added burden of anti-semitism in the 1950s.
  8. He said Atwater bore responsibility for the Republican memo that attacked House Speaker Tom Foley with homosexual innuendo and had lied in denying it.
  9. Insurers last week won their second battle in recent months, when a New Jersey judge ruled that 126 insurers for former Diamond Shamrock Co. bore no liability for injuries caused by the production of a toxic byproduct of the defoliant Agent Orange.
  10. Some weapons experts had said a gun with a barrel the size of the tube seized by Customs _ 131 feet long with a 39-inch bore _ could fire nuclear or chemical warheads as far as Tehran or Tel Aviv, each within 350 miles of Iraq's borders.
  11. Can you pay a surrogate mother to give up the child she bore?"'
  12. Chatilla bore the brunt of fighting between PLO guerrillas and Shiite Moslem Amal militiamen in their three-year war for control of the Palestinian refugee camps.
  13. The property sector, 2.7 per cent lower, bore the brunt of the selling pressure. AUSTRALIA recouped much of its early loss to close only slightly down on the day.
  14. But Israel never has had diplomatic ties with East Germany, which has maintained that it bore no responsibility for the Holocaust because the nation did not exist at the time.
  15. To the Russians, it is a bore. But both at least make headlines in the newspapers of the rest of the continent which in turn react passionately.
  16. Reports of unrest in the 350,000-member corps arose after a U.N.-sponsored truce Aug. 20 halted eight years of war with Iraq, in which the Revolutionary Guards bore the brunt of fighting and suffered the heaviest casualties.
  17. Badly outspent in the South, he bore the brunt of negative ads run by his rivals and a series of damaging profiles on network news shows last week.
  18. The tag bore only a four-digit POW number and the words "Oflag Luft 3," a designation for a prison camp for air officers.
  19. Officials said the victims were aged 18 to 30. Their hands were tied behind their backs and the bodies bore gunshot wounds.
  20. The 16-foot-high, 12-foot-wide candelabrum bore a sign saying it was sponsored by Lubavitch of Vermont, a group of Orthodox Jews.
  21. It bore Escobar's signature and what was apparently the imprint of his index finger, intended to prove its authenticity.
  22. "Their reputation is extremely high," he said in an interview, adding that Fort Halstead experts would have worked closely with experts in the Scottish town of Lockerbie, which bore the brunt of the crash, to get a "broader picture" of the crash.
  23. His death bore the hallmarks of a sectarian murder by Protestant terrorists, they said.
  24. It adds that this is the first time, to its knowledge, that this sort of glitch has been experienced in the card processing world. The Access banks bore the brunt of the trouble.
  25. Paper Chase I'd like to open a magazine Just once, without the bore Of having that subscription card Flutter to the floor.
  26. Residents who left the coastal town of Machilipatnam, which bore the brunt of the cyclone, said the streets were waist-deep in water.
  27. Government imports of sugar were delayed for weeks while prices rose to the benefit of private producers and importers. Mr A K Antony, minister for civil supplies, resigned yesterday, saying he bore moral responsibility for the sugar scandal.
  28. An interview Mr. Abedi had Sunday with two local publications effectively bore her out: Speaking in partial sentences and unable to recall many events, Mr. Abedi denied any wrongdoing but said little to explain how BCCI evolved into such a mess.
  29. His girlfriend is pregnant, his school has run out of heating fuel and his stepfather is a bullying bore.
  30. Saudi Arabia bore a particular grudge against Khomeini for the repeated attempts to politicize the annual Moslem pilgrimage to Mecca with Khomeini's teachings.
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