Aburrido in english
Boring
pronunciation: bɔrɪŋ part of speech: noun
pronunciation: bɔrɪŋ part of speech: noun
In gestures
aburrido = tedious ; deadly ; drab ; stodgy ; unexciting ; uninteresting ; wearisome ; weary ; bored ; boring ; wearying ; dreary ; uninspiring ; unmoving ; dull ; cut and dried [cut and dry] ; drearily ; vanilla ; plain vanilla.
Example: In other places too many references could make for a very tedious search.Example: Some authors, of course, object to their work being subjected to compulsory dissection for exams in the traditional deadly manner and like Bernard Shaw, they swear to haunt anyone who so mistreats them (Shaw's ghost must be busy these days).Example: Have reading foisted on you as a duty, a task to be put up with, from which you expect no delight, and it can appear a drab business gladly to be given up.Example: One could easily prefer the convenience of the stodgy single-volume work.Example: The author argues that the advantages for higher education are unclear, and rather unexciting.Example: There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.Example: The earliest binding machines replaced the wearisome hand-beating of the sheets in order to fold them.Example: Humanity is returning to the downsized, reengineered, total quality management weary business world.Example: One should answer the telephone clearly and pleasantly -- not in a bored voice or in slurred haste.Example: This article shows how the dowdy and boring image of the stereotypical librarian as presented in fiction, taints the portrayal of all who work in libraries.Example: A new wave of books dealing frankly with such concerns as sex, alcoholism and broken homes was seen as a breakthrough, but plots and styles have begun to show a wearying sameness.Example: The city was considered to be seedy (decayed, littered, grimy, and dreary), crowded, busy, and strongly idiosyncratic (quaint, historic, colorful, and full of 'atmosphere').Example: Though the novel begins like a house ablaze, it later thickens slightly into an acceptable if uninspiring finale.Example: The outcome is strangely unmoving.Example: These librarians are given Haykin upon the day of their arrival and are expected to read the entire dull document and use it as a guideline in establishing subject headings.Example: I don't like to hear cut-and-dried sermons -- when I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.Example: Quite apart from anything else, it is drearily boring, the tedium exacerbated by the grating monotony of Stein's voice.Example: And I'm not looking down on people who want to go to sex parties -- although I bet they're way more vanilla than the press is hinting at.Example: Many consider bonds to be the plain vanilla of the investing world, yet they can generate substantial returns.more:
» cuando el diablo está aburrido mata moscas con el rabo = idle hands are the devil's workshop/tools/playground .
Example: The saying the 'idle hands are the devil's workshop' may be particularly apt in the case of Islamic rioters and terrorists.» de forma aburrida = dully .
Example: I was vexed by the dullness of his proceedings at work and though he understands it he does many things by rote, and very dully.» de manera aburrida = dully .
Example: I was vexed by the dullness of his proceedings at work and though he understands it he does many things by rote, and very dully.» de un modo aburrido y pesado = tediously ; ponderously ; boringly .
Example: Bibliographers, like other scholars, have to be able to think logically, to judge critically, and to persevere in tediously repetitive tasks. Example: However, his use of a remorselessly chronological approach yields a narrative that is often bitty, sometimes ponderously plodding. Example: Everything that happens in the couple's tiny, shrunken, enclosed world is addictive, unglamorous, and boringly awful = Todo lo que ocurre en el pequeño, reducido y cerrado mundo de esta pareja es adictivo, poco atractivo y aburridamente espantoso.» día aburrido = dull day .
Example: A child may find through reading a book that a dull day is transformed because he has met a talking pig and a spider that can write in 'Charlotte's Web'.» estar aburrido como una ostra = be bored stiff ; be bored to death ; be bored to tears ; be bored out of + Posesivo + (tiny) mind .
Example: Instead of spending hours being bored stiff in church, most families spend Christmas with family and loved-ones or are still recovering from the hangover . Example: Three years on, and we are bored to death with the war on terror. Example: The tiger was bored to tears with his viewers and started yawning to show it. Example: Bored out of her mind with the long hours and mundane tasks, she decided to give radio a try.» lo aburrido = dullness .
Example: I was vexed by the dullness of his proceedings at work and though he understands it he does many things by rote, and very dully.» tener cara de (estar) aburrido = look + bored .
Example: Though he has some attentive and interested students, the majority of students look bored in his class, with that glazed-over look in their eye, and a surprising number skip class altogether.aburrir = pall ; bore ; wear + a little thin.
Example: The experience of 'flying through' virtual worlds to discover the identities of hundreds of criptics nodes palls very quickly.Example: Frustrated by the limitations on developing work relationships with students, and bored with the demands of the library, she returned to teaching English.Example: His jauntiness can wear a little thin, and the buff will be sorry there is no index, but there is much to be grateful for in this book.more:
» aburrir = weary .
Example: She wearies of the constant procession of visitors, and the round of invitations and commissions, which swallow up her time.» aburrirse como una ostra = be bored stiff ; be bored to death ; be bored to tears ; be bored out of + Posesivo + (tiny) mind ; bore + Nombre + to tears ; bore + Nombre + to death ; bore + Nombre + stiff .
Example: Instead of spending hours being bored stiff in church, most families spend Christmas with family and loved-ones or are still recovering from the hangover . Example: Three years on, and we are bored to death with the war on terror. Example: The tiger was bored to tears with his viewers and started yawning to show it. Example: Bored out of her mind with the long hours and mundane tasks, she decided to give radio a try. Example: However, before becoming the vivacious student we all loved, Camilla was stuck in a job that bored her to tears. Example: Money matters bored her to death. Example: She has just been fired by one of the city's top law firms because she had the honesty to admit the work bored her stiff.» aburrirse (con) = be bored (with) .
Example: Students are understandably bored with learning on-line catalgue use when the focus is on the technicalities of the catalogue itself.» aburrirse soberanamente = bore + Nombre + to tears ; bore + Nombre + to death ; bore + Nombre + stiff .
Example: However, before becoming the vivacious student we all loved, Camilla was stuck in a job that bored her to tears. Example: Money matters bored her to death. Example: She has just been fired by one of the city's top law firms because she had the honesty to admit the work bored her stiff.» aburrir un montón = bore + Nombre + to tears ; bore + Nombre + to death ; bore + Nombre + stiff .
Example: However, before becoming the vivacious student we all loved, Camilla was stuck in a job that bored her to tears. Example: Money matters bored her to death. Example: She has just been fired by one of the city's top law firms because she had the honesty to admit the work bored her stiff.» no aburrir a Alguien con todos los detalles = spare + Nombe + all the details .
Example: I'll spare you all the details, but the short story is that he looked her up last year when he was travelling in Scandinavia, and was delighted to find her.» ser capaz de aburrir a un muerto = be like watching (the) grass grow ; be like watching paint dry .
Example: Watching golf on television is like watching grass grow. Example: I'm a Liverpool fan myself and I was on the terraces a few times last season watching them play and that was like watching paint dry.