" Eclipse, New York: Got Wainwright party; all well. Coleman." The students had struggled to send messages to their people in America, but they had only succeeded in deepening the tragic boredom of the clerks.英文原著 · 《Active Service》
Nora, now thoroughly alert, glanced keenly into the other girl's face, but it was inscrutable. The actress had intended to go careering through a whole circle of daring illusions to an intimacy with,Coleman, but here, before she had really developed her attack, Marjory, with a few conventional and indifferent sentences, almost expressive of boredom, had made the subject of Coleman impossible. An effect was left upon Nora's mind that Marjory had been extremely polite in listening to much nervous talk about a person in whom she had no interest.英文原著 · 《Active Service》
A young man was leaning against the mantel-piece. Marguerite, seated at the piano, let her fingers wander over the notes, beginning scraps of music without finishing them. The whole scene breathed boredom, the man embarrassed by the consciousness of his nullity, the woman tired of her dismal visitor. At the voice of Prudence, Marguerite rose, and coming toward us with a look of gratitude to Mme. Duvernoy, said:
"Come in, and welcome."英文原著 · 《Camille》
"I heard dogs snarling and panting." (Visible discouragement of the bench, boredom of the public, and exasperation of the lawyer for the defense. Dogs again--! But the inquisitive Judge insisted.)英文原著 · 《Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton-Part 1》
"Oh, the picture--" Mrs. Lombard's face expressed a gentle disappointment, which might have been boredom in a person of acuter sensibilities. "It's an original Leonardo, you know," she said mechanically.英文原著 · 《Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton-Part 1》
His posture spoke of utter boredom. He sprawled length in his chair, his long legs stretched out in front of him, his, eyes half-closed, various editions of evening papers strewn about the ground at his feet. He was a tall, well-groomed man, and his lithe, athletic figure looked very well in its neat uniform.英文原著 · 《Okewood of the Secret Service》
What this pool says about you is that you have the capacity to fight boredom, the tide, the endless, beating march against you.美剧 · 《Billions》
But I also know what I'm capable of, and forty years of boredom and duty just isn't possible for me.美剧 · 《Downton Abbey》
Because through all the compromises and negotiations and arguments and sometimes even boredom, I cannot picture my life without him.美剧 · 《Modern Family》