某日，華生的美國朋友A和中國朋友B在一起聊天，我在一旁聽到他們的聊天內容，還挺有趣的。
A: 「Hey, man. Telling bad jokes only makes you a boring person.」
B: 「No, you are wrong.」
A: 「Why? Your jokes don't make sense.」
B: 「No, I mean your English is wrong. You use 『boring』 to describe me, but my teacher taught me we must use words with 『-ed』 to describe people, like the sentence 『he is very excited』. So you should say 『bored』.」
A: 「Fine, I’m really bored now...」
仔細想一想，在學生時代，老師在教你區別「excited」和「exciting」的時候，是不是力求簡單就一筆帶過，說前者是用來形容人的，而後者是用來形容物的？如果真的是這樣，那華生只能很遺憾地表示：你被英語老師欺騙了N年。
You are bored.
You are boring.
這兩句話都沒有錯誤，只是意思不一樣。前者指你覺得無聊，後者指你讓人覺得無聊。
Bored is used to describe a feeling or state you are in. (He, she, we, they, I)
E.g.: I have nothing to do, so I'm bored. (I am feeling bored / I feel bored)
Boring is used to describe a person, object or activity (it makes you feel bored).
E.g.: This documentary is very boring (It causes other people to feel bored)
你應該明白了吧？兩者並不是人或物的區別。下面這些單詞也是一樣的道理。-ed和-ing結尾的區別，分不清的話看下例句應該能有更深入的理解。
annoyed
annoying
例句：My little brother is annoying. I am annoyed with him again today.
confused
confusing
例句：I am confused about which day his birthday is. The information is so confusing!
excited
exciting
例句：That new movie sounds exciting! I am excited about going to see it.
surprised
surprising
例句：I was surprised to see you today! You’re so mysterious; everything you do is surprising to me!
shocked
shocking
例句：He is shocked, because the truth is too shocking.
interested
interesting
例句：People all say Bali is very interesting. I am interested in having holidays there.
如果你成功地改變了自己對這些單詞的理解，也【分享到朋友圈】讓你的朋友也「恍然大悟」一下吧。新朋友也歡迎你們關注華生的微信，這裡天天都有實用有趣的英語內容與你分享。
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