bore是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 钻孔; 厌烦; n. 孔; 口径; 惹人厌烦的人，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The native bore both the tomahawk and knife of his tribe; and yet his appearance was not altogether that of a warrior.
-- He also bore a knife in a girdle of wampum, like that which confined the scanty garments of the Indian, but no tomahawk.
-- We took wives who bore us children; we worshipped the Great Spirit; and we kept the Maquas beyond the sound of our songs of triumph.'
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Truth to say, he was a conscientious man, and ever bore in mind the golden maxim, 'Spare the rod and spoil the child.'
-- Still he must have had fire and mettle in his day, if we may judge from the name he bore of Gunpowder.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I think he'd bore you to death."
-- "Does he bore you?"
-- She had put some order into the drawing-room by now, her housewifely instincts having got the better of her dismay; and it no longer bore that deserted look, like a furnished house long to let, which I had noticed on my first visit after the catastrophe.
-- Whenever she went out and compassion for her misadventure made her friends eager to entertain her she bore a demeanour that was perfect.
-- He bore himself most unbecomingly.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As the hunters advanced, the trees were found to be more scattered, many being magnificent, but none bore eatable fruit.
-- Neither the weapons nor the instruments, contrary to the usual custom, bore the name of the maker; they were, besides, in a perfect state, and did not appear to have been used.
-- As to the dictionaries of natural science and Polynesian idioms, both were English; but they neither bore the name of the publisher nor the date of publication.
-- The atlas was a magnificent work, comprising maps of every country in the world, and several planispheres arranged upon Mercator's projection, and of which the nomenclature was in French but which also bore neither date nor name of publisher.
-- and he pointed to a shrub, rather than a tree, for it was composed of a single stem, covered with a scaly bark, which bore leaves streaked with little parallel veins.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This was said with no appearance of cunning or deceit, but with an unsuspicious frankness that bore the impress of truth.
-- Richard Swiveller was utterly aghast at this unexpected alteration of circumstances, which threatened the complete overthrow of the project in which he bore so conspicuous a part, and seemed to nip his prospects in the bud.
-- Mr Abel, who had a quaint old-fashioned air about him, looked nearly of the same age as his father, and bore a wonderful resemblance to him in face and figure, though wanting something of his full, round, cheerfulness, and substituting in its place a timid reserve.
-- There were the seats where the poor old people sat, worn spare, and yellow like themselves; the rugged font where children had their names, the homely altar where they knelt in after life, the plain black tressels that bore their weight on their last visit to the cool old shady church.
-- The child bore upon her arm the little basket with her flowers, and sometimes stopped, with timid and modest looks, to offer them at some gay carriage; but alas!there were many bolder beggars there, gipsies who promised husbands, and other adepts in their trade, and although some ladies smiled gently as they shook their heads, and others cried to the gentlemen beside them 'See, what a pretty face!'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am in low spirits to-day, and I have no right to bore people," answered Nekhludoff.
-- This old woman, who, with her son, was charged with incendiarism, bore her confinement good-naturedly, grieving only over her son, who was also in jail, but above all, her heart was breaking for her old man who, she feared, would be eaten up by lice, as her daughter-in-law had returned to her parents, and there was no one to wash him.
-- "What a bore your famous Ivasheukoff is, my dear!He wins his cases by tiring us out--there is no end to his talking."
-- Up to that night, while she hoped for his return, the child which she bore under her heart was not irksome to her.
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