boring

中ぐり

精密な切削工具で、すでにある穴を広げる加工。

やさしい英語で： 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.

よく使う表現： precision boring, boring operation, boring head

退屈な、つまらない

興味を引かず、ほかのことをしたくなるような。

やさしい英語で： 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?

類義語： dull, uninteresting, tedious

反対語： interesting, exciting

よく使う表現： boring film, boring job, really boring, boring lecture

退屈した

することがなく退屈した状態。標準的な英語ではboredを使う。

やさしい英語で： 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.

類義語： bored

反対語： interested

よく使う表現： feel boring, be boring