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教你用8个有趣的英语短语表达无聊情绪，适合练习日常口语和情感表达，提升英语表达多样性。
Today I don't feel like doing anything, hmm...
今天我什么都不想做，嗯……
nothing at all.
完全没有。
Don't feel like picking up the phone, so leave the message after the tone, coz today I don't feel like doing anything,
实在不想接电话的话，就在电话响铃后留下语音信息吧……因为今天我什么都不想做。
nothing at all.
完全没有。
Is that your song?
那是你的歌吗？
Are you feeling extremely bored?
你是否感到极其无聊？
Are you bored to death?
你是不是无聊得要死啊？
Then this is the video for you.
那么，这个视频就是为你准备的。
You have clicked on just the perfect icon because in this video we are going to learn very interesting ways to express boring mood, yes.
你点击的图标真是再合适不过了——因为在这段视频中，我们将学习一些非常有趣的方法来表达“无聊”的情绪。
So please stay with me, I'm Michelle and let's start with the first phrase here.
那么，请继续听我说。我叫米歇尔，让我们从这里的第一个短语开始吧。
The first phrase, it does nothing for me, the word nothing here, means that nothing at all.
第一个短语对我来说没有任何意义；这里的“nothing”表示“完全没有任何东西”或“毫无作用”。
It signifies boredom, so obviously this phrase is talking about being extremely bored.
这个表达象征着无聊；显然，它指的是一种极其强烈的无聊感。
Let me share a situation with you.
让我跟你们分享一个情况。
Once with my friend Mary we were having a conversation and she had recently read a book and she was telling about it,
有一次，我和我的朋友玛丽在一起聊天。她最近读了一本书，正在跟我分享这本书的内容。
that Oh!
哦！
This book was so great, it really moved me, brought me to tears.
这本书实在太棒了，它深深打动了我的心，甚至让我感动得流下了眼泪。
I was like ok, which book is it?
我就想：“好吧，是哪本书呢？
When she told me the name, I had also just recently read that book.
当她告诉我那个书名的时候，我恰好也刚刚读完那本书。
However, that book did nothing for me.
然而，那本书对我毫无帮助（或者说：我并没有从那本书中学到任何东西）。
So, it left me absolutely without any emotions.
因此，这让我完全失去了任何情绪（即：我变得毫无情感反应）。
I did not feel like crying, it did not move me, so probably it did not have the same impact on both of us.
我并没有想哭的冲动；这件事也没有让我感到动容。因此，它对我们两人的影响可能并不相同。
When something does not impact you in a strong way and makes you feel emotionless, then you can use this phrase.
当某件事没有对你产生强烈的影响，也没有让你产生任何情绪（比如愤怒、悲伤等）时，你就可以使用这个短语。
It did nothing for me or it does nothing for me.
它对我没有任何帮助（或者说，它现在仍然对我没有任何帮助）。
Does can be used for the present form and did can be used for the past form.
can”可以用来表示现在时态，而“did”可以用来表示过去时态。
I'll write it for you here, emotionless.
我会在这里毫无感情地把它写给你看。
Not only books, you could also talk about movies, you could say that, that movie left me emotionless or that movie does nothing for me,
不仅可以谈论书籍，还可以聊聊电影。比如可以说某部电影让我毫无共鸣（即没有给我带来任何情感上的触动），或者某部电影完全无法吸引我（即对我没有任何吸引力）。
would mean the same thing or the movie left me cold.
要么这两者的意思是一样的，要么就是这部电影让我完全提不起兴趣（或者说这部电影让我感到非常乏味）。
With this let's move on to the second phrase, to watch paint dry.
好了，接下来我们来看第二个短语：“watch paint dry”（看着油漆干）。
Who likes to watch paint dry, do you?
谁会喜欢看颜料慢慢变干的过程呢？你们呢？
I don't.
我不。
Did anyone of you really raise your hand?
你们当中真的有人举手了吗？
If you did, do you see rainbows when the paint is drying?
如果你这么做了，那么在油漆干燥的过程中，你会看到彩虹吗？
I'm sure not.
我绝对不这么认为。
It's absolutely boring, so very boring.
这真的太无聊了，无聊到极点。
So what Do you say when you feel so bored, like you are watching paint dry?
那么，当你感到无比无聊（甚至觉得时间过得极其缓慢，就像在看油漆干掉一样）时，你会说什么呢？
Let me give you a situation.
让我给你举一个例子来说明情况。
So, when you are watching TV and there are really long commercials, how does it feel?
那么，当你看电视时，如果广告时间特别长，你会有什么感觉呢？
Isn't it as boring as watching paint dry?
这难道不就像看油漆干掉一样无聊吗？
That's where you can use this phrase.
就在这种情况下，你可以使用这个短语。
This phrase is also called a simile, yes because you start with an "as" sometimes.
这个短语也被称为“明喻”（simile），确实如此，因为有时候它的开头会使用“as”这个词。