tedium
英 [ˈtiːdiəm]
美 [ˈtiːdiəm]
n. 单调乏味; 冗长; 啰唆
BNC.18839 / COCA.21125
牛津词典
noun
- 单调乏味；冗长；啰唆
the quality of being boring- She longed for something to relieve the tedium of everyday life.
她渴望有什么事情能排解她日常生活中的烦闷。
- She longed for something to relieve the tedium of everyday life.
柯林斯词典
- N-UNCOUNT 枯燥;乏味;无聊
If you talk aboutthe tedium ofa job, task, or situation, you think it is boring and rather frustrating.- She began to wonder whether she wouldn't go mad with the tedium of the job.
她开始怀疑自己会不会被枯燥的工作逼疯。
- She began to wonder whether she wouldn't go mad with the tedium of the job.
英英释义
noun
- dullness owing to length or slowness
- the feeling of being bored by something tedious
双语例句
- Soldiers often say that the worst thing about fighting is not the moments of terror, but all the hours of tedium in between.
士兵们常说关于打仗最糟的事不是那些恐怖的时刻，而是那些时刻之间沉闷的几个小时。 - We are reading them for instruction, and the best we can hope is that our need for it will enable us to get through them without tedium.
我们读这些书是为了获得指导，我们能期望的最多就是我们在读完之后不至于感到单调乏味。 - Man with beard, dismissed my editor, signalling irrelevance and tedium.
我的编辑拒绝了，他说：长胡子的男人。 - Undoubtedly the very tedium and ennui which presume to have exhausted the variety and the joys of life are as old as Adam.
毫无疑问，这种单调与无聊就像亚当一样古老；正是这种古老的单调和无聊，把人类生活中参差百态的幸福消磨殆尽了。 - While this might seem a recipe for tedium and repetition, actually it's an opportunity, as you will see shortly.
虽然看起来非常罗嗦，有不少重复，但实际上也是一种机会，后面您将看到。 - Such is the tedium of office life, a little drama is always welcome.
办公室生活是如此沉闷，带一点戏剧性的故事，总是颇受欢迎。 - It was another day of mind-numbing tedium.
又是一个令人麻木的单调乏味的日子。 - The tedium of that work is hard to conceive.
这种冗长乏味的工作是常人难以想象的。 - We desire that we may do so without an amount of tedium which ordinary human nature cannot endure with patience.
我们希望我们可以这么做而不感到相当单调，因为那是通常的人性所不能忍耐的。 - In myself I could observe the following sources of tedium.
从我自己身上，我所观察到的烦闷的根源有下列一些。