boring

alésage

Opération consistant à élargir un trou existant avec un outil de coupe précis.

En anglais simple : The process of making an existing hole wider with a precise cutting tool.

• Boring makes the hole wider.
• The workshop uses a lathe for boring.
• Accurate boring leaves the inside of the cylinder smooth.

Expressions courantes : precision boring, boring operation, boring head

ennuyeux

Qui n’intéresse pas et donne envie de faire autre chose.

En anglais simple : Something that does not interest you and makes you wish you were doing something else.

• This film is boring.
• We left the boring lecture early.
• Why are these meetings always so boring?

Synonymes : dull, uninteresting, tedious

Contraires : interesting, exciting

Expressions courantes : boring film, boring job, really boring, boring lecture

ennuyé

Qui s’ennuie faute d’activité intéressante ; en anglais standard, on emploie bored dans ce sens.

En anglais simple : Feeling unhappy or restless because you have nothing interesting to do; a nonstandard use of “bored.”

• I feel boring with nothing to do.
• He said he was boring while waiting alone.
• She felt boring after hours without anything to do.

Synonymes : bored

Contraires : interested

Expressions courantes : feel boring, be boring