tedium

1 There’s even a running gag about the tedium of making choices in the turn-based combat system.

2 A strapping , energetic man, he finds the tedium of joblessness intolerable.

他身强体健, 充满活力, 觉得失业的无聊与烦闷令他无法忍受.

3 Ryan advises would-be archaeologists to enter the competitive field with their eyes wide open — volunteer for digs, attend professional conferences to see if they take to the tedium of research.

4 I took a day off to relieve the tedium of work.

5 Mostly he despairs about terrorism and capitalism after bombings in France, vents about the tedium of conservative Alsace and his own inertia, and laments that his father died while watching an Occupation-era drama.

6 For a creature who had lived his life in tedium, he sure went out with a bloody bang.

7 But if you’re in a constant state of tedium, how about a change?

8 After a few opening scenes showing the pomp of an assembly and the tedium of a classroom, adult supervision all but vanishes.

9 Much of this episode concerns the tedium and humiliations of life in corporate law, the fate awaiting many law school graduates who are lucky enough to land jobs.

10 More than cruelty and lust for power, the plodding tedium of bureaucracies, which take on a life of their own, are the engines of inquisitions.

11 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。

12 Redford also wanted to be sure to illustrate the tedium involved in the detective work done by the reporting team.

13 Harkup plays it equally straight, sticking to her own formula so closely as to risk tedium.

14 When he describes his disappointment in the tedium of his day-to-day life, he writes, “After the neon explosions of my hallucinations, I felt like I was living in a consolation prize, a cheap imitation.”

15 But the location captured here is less André’s grim little room than his mind, as he tries to ward off existential despair — a battle that lets Delisle transmute tedium into compelling suspense.

16 He had also worked for four years as a staff musician at CBS Television, and, remembering the tedium of that studio job, he was not sure he wanted another.

17 Everyday jealousies, disappointments and anger share the stage with jokes, chit-chat, occasional poignant revelations and a lot of workplace tedium.

18 “It is how we, despite our portions of sorrow, tedium and disaster, persist in finding meaning in ours.”

19 Amaranta Úrsula, who already had her second teeth, thought of her nephew as a scurrying toy who was a consolation for the tedium of the rain.

20 “Embarrassing indulgences”? “Reviled species”? I tried to imagine a reviewer who bemoaned the tedium of having to read any novel, or any book of poetry, before launching into her snooty tirade against a specific example.

1 单调沉闷

blank tedious

2 厌烦

boredom pall tired tiresome wearisome bore tire weary brassed off

3 厌倦

boredom lassitude weary jaded ennui tire irk sick of sour on be fed up

4 令人生厌

dull mortal dreary prolix dead-ass prolixity

5 冗长

long weak tedious windy diffuse copious verbose wordy gassy prolix prosy sesquipedalian circumlocution by the yard lengthy everlasting cumbersome voluminous interminable

6 沉闷

close heavy tedious depressing oppressive dismal tiring dreary muggy ponderous stifling draggy dree amort heavily ponderously drearily oppression closeness languor tediousness dreariness dull prose somber threadbare leaden wearisome rueful Saturnine cold soft pudding tame soggy tiresome broody lumpish cheerless triste atrabilious mid-victorian grum doldrums tameness

7 单调

dead flat bald drab monotonous singsong subfusc monotony monotone sameness humdrum Pedestrianism without light and shade dead-alive even same heavy quiet plain blank dull pedestrian tame prosaic monotonic toneless changeless unrelieved inartificial dead-and-alive flatly chime prose uniformity flatness platitude blankness prosiness monopitch creep

8 单调乏味

tedious plodding tediously flatness tediousness uninspired draggy drab dreary monotonous grey samey monotony

9 啰嗦

tedious diffuse verbose wordy long-winded prolix

10 乏味

dry boring suburban drab banal prosaic ponderous insipid vapid mouldy humdrum platitudinous banality vapidity

11 冗长乏味

tedious drawn-out