humdrum

1 We're hoping these rhythms come to the rescue just in time for those holiday road trips to Granny's, or anywhere — even the humdrum drive to the big-box store.

2 I love novels of magical manners, stories that contrast the rigid specificities of humdrum moneyed lives with the numinous wilderland of magic.

3 In each of these settings, being called upon to answer the so-called “Proust questionnaire” is presented as an honor—a way of signalling that an artist’s work stands above the humdrum promotional cycle.

4 Its facade, pierced by large windows opening the interior to the street, and vice-versa, glows as day turns to night, acting like a beacon in the neighborhood and redefining a humdrum, bus-clogged block.

5 Especially in periodic episodes of manic comedy with predictable punch-line twists, its ideas are conventional and humdrum.

6 In “Averaging,” Ms. Azrieli explores the familiar or the humdrum, which to her means an arabesque penchée, in which a dancer extends a leg and leans forward.

7 My wife and I lead a fairly stable, humdrum existence.

8 Yet “Love Story” manages to be, on the whole, a merry book, in which McKenney spins gold from humdrum newlywed material, including her mistakes as a novice homemaker.

9 Bar Oppenheimer reflects Rehberger’s interest in creating sculptures, objects and environments that make references to humdrum mass culture while altering their spirit and import through the addition of color, textures and new dimensions.

10 The humdrum detail of lives lived today will be gleaned only obliquely.

11 Today is a humdrum day. So common and nothing especial to be write.

今天过得很平凡, 很一般,没有特别的东西可以写.

12 But it’s a crucial one. “slugs” energetically contrasts sexual collision, sexual tease and sexual frustration with some outlandishly humdrum domestic intimacy.

13 Great things can come in small packages — and so can humdrum things.

14 Written by Matthew Dabner and Mr. Edgerton’s brother, Joel, it turns a humdrum Down Under backwater into a black hole of haphazard crime and arbitrary punishment.

15 Photograph: Nick Cunard / Rex Features Escaping the humdrum provinces in search of bright lights and the big city isn't just the stuff of teenage dreams but, increasingly, a rite of passage.

16 It's certainly plodding and humdrum enough to be authentic – though does chuck in the odd Columbo-style red herring to keep us interested.

17 But it won’t win awards, because it’s – admirably – light on histrionics; just a humdrum yet hokey study of the effects of chronic pain.

18 They might marry, and sink to the humdrum of other old married people.

他们可能结婚, 然后陷于像那些老年夫妻一样的平凡.

19 Operating in tandem, the two sections provide an organic illustration of how a creative mind transforms impressions and thoughts into art, itself a rare accomplishment, even if the end product is humdrum.

20 You see the humdrum existence of an artist, snoop around their flat and watch them get excited about ice lollies.

1 普通

run-of-mill common-garden run-of-mine mill-run common-or-garden-variety mean open local standard general simple common natural average popular garden regulation mass familiar routine household everyday universal steam ordinary generic vanilla orthodox trivial coarse prevailing mediocre mundane commonplace medial homely middling plebeian ornery quotidian unglamorous garden-variety plain-vanilla workaday nomic rumdum plebby common-or-garden ordinarily commonality mediocrity commonness vulgo from central casting

2 单调

even flat quiet vegetable plain dull pedestrian tame bald prose commonplace drab monotonous prosaic plodding toneless unrelieved singsong unvaried prosy subfusc flatly tonelessly prosily monotony monotone sameness dullness blankness pedestrianism inanimation prosiness boring dreary inanimate dowdy stark unexciting expressionless baldness drabness dead tedium without light and shade dead-and-alive triste heavy blank trivial mundane vapid unglamorous monotonic samey lifeless lacklustre jejune dead-alive same changeless inartificial chime uniformity flatness platitude monopitch creep waste mechanic blah bleak stodgy leaden one-note ticky-tacky saltless banausic vegetably wasteland vapidity monotonize mechanize

3 平凡

run-of-mill even small common usual everyday ordinary pedestrian literal trivial mediocre prose mundane commonplace barren indifferent lowly uneventful uninspired banal run-of-the-mill prosaic matter-of-fact featureless second-rate homespun quotidian bread-and-butter C undistinguished toneless workaday characterless bathetic singsong platitudinous prosy bromidic noteless common-or-garden mundanely banally trivialism mediocrity platitude banality triviality mundanity commonness homeliness bathos stodginess prosiness trivialize ten a penny two a penny old hat unattractive unremarkable unexciting unromantic platitudinarian platitudinal half-pie stock waste routine vanilla beaten earthbound unglamorous rumdum banausic ordinarily prosaism commonality mediocritize from central casting common or garden be no great shakes

4 无聊

yawnful long light slow vegetable stupid deadly idle blah worthless weary heartbreaking unimportant tiresome monotonous uninteresting uninspired moldy colourless fiddling stodgy wishy-washy unexciting simple-minded puerile workaday languorous draggy unmeaning rubbishy cockamamie disappointingly wearily dully monotony weariness dullness ennui for the birds boredom phooey sorry everlasting shabby poky shit dullsville wrong poor flat thin empty slight blank boring silly dull vacant petty barren moonshine trifling prosaic pokey rigmarole rubbishing fiddle-faddle boresome slipslop disagreeably nothingness vacuity

5 平淡的

dry pedestrian tame mundane

6 迟钝的

heavy fat thick passive lazy dense dull dim backward blunt opaque numb sluggish lymphatic inert beefy obtuse languid leaden sodden phlegmatic lumpish torpid poky unready purblind thick-headed blockish logy

7 普通的

run-of-mill common-garden run-of-mine mill-run common-or-garden-variety mean open local standard general simple common natural average popular garden regulation mass familiar routine household everyday universal steam ordinary generic vanilla orthodox trivial coarse prevailing mediocre mundane commonplace medial homely middling plebeian ornery quotidian unglamorous garden-variety plain-vanilla workaday nomic rumdum plebby common-or-garden from central casting

8 迟钝

heavy fat thick passive lazy dense dull dim backward blunt opaque numb sluggish lymphatic inert beefy obtuse languid leaden sodden phlegmatic lumpish torpid poky unready purblind thick-headed blockish logy inertia phlegm torpor slow of wit

9 乏味

flat static dull blah sterile prose dreadful watery dreary innocuous tasteless uninteresting prosaic featureless vapid flavorless unexciting draggy prosy saltless sauceless savorless flatly tastelessly flatness stuffiness wateriness prosiness dry boring suburban drab banal ponderous insipid mouldy platitudinous tedium banality vapidity slow heavy dead sick sad deadly pedestrian mundane bland tacky monotonous uninspired colourless pallid blandly dully monotonously prosaically ponderously unimaginatively boredom monotony dullness blandness ponderousness routine tame stuffy unsavory unsavoury workaday livelong jejune platitude insipidity stupid dusty unattractive Philistine corny languid unimaginative wishy-washy unglamorous prolix unarresting square monochrome lifeless one-dimensional run-of-the-mill menial unfunny godforsaken unprepossessing arid soulless undistinguished wearisome unexceptional been done that been there that noplaceville icky-poo unshoed dead-alive fade bare literal pathetic barren soggy sickly boneless icky moldy matter-of-fact stodgy naff ho-hum humorless washy unpoetic pukey drack milk-and-water milk and water

10 平庸

common moderate inferior indifferent bourgeois plebeian mediocrity platitude vulgarity banality vulgarize

11 平常

simple common natural normal regular familiar usual everyday plain ordinary conventional orthodox trivial habitual tepid well-worn hackneyed hackney unexceptional wonted

12 乏味的

flat static dull blah sterile prose dreadful watery dreary innocuous tasteless uninteresting prosaic featureless vapid flavorless unexciting draggy prosy saltless sauceless savorless dry boring suburban drab banal ponderous insipid mouldy platitudinous deadly musty stupid unfunny slow pedestrian lame mundane threadbare ho-hum unglamorous washy wearisome toneless dullsville heavy going heavy dead sick sad bland tacky monotonous uninspired colourless pallid routine tame stuffy unsavory unsavoury workaday livelong jejune dusty unattractive Philistine corny languid unimaginative wishy-washy prolix unarresting square monochrome lifeless one-dimensional run-of-the-mill menial godforsaken unprepossessing arid soulless undistinguished unexceptional vanilla inert laborious drippy unmemorable unadventurous laboured noplaceville icky-poo unshoed dead-alive fade bare literal pathetic barren soggy sickly boneless icky moldy matter-of-fact stodgy naff humorless unpoetic pukey drack milk-and-water

13 平庸的

common moderate inferior indifferent bourgeois plebeian

14 平常的

simple common natural normal regular familiar usual everyday plain ordinary conventional orthodox trivial habitual tepid well-worn hackneyed hackney unexceptional wonted

15 无变化的

same level flat unchanged unaffected monotone unrelieved unvaried uniform monotonous insular unconverted monotonic changeless uninflected unvarying

16 令人厌烦的

tired boring trying tiresome irksome

17 凡人

earthly worldling

18 无聊的

stupid boring inane ho-hum fatuous wrong poor flat thin empty slight blank silly dull vacant petty blah barren moonshine trifling prosaic pokey rigmarole poky draggy rubbishing rubbishy fiddle-faddle boresome slipslop

19 无变化

flat uniform unchanged unaffected monotonous insular unconverted monotonic changeless uninflected unvarying unvaried monotone

20 令人厌倦的

tiresome wearisome

21 平凡的

run-of-mill even small common usual everyday ordinary pedestrian literal trivial mediocre prose mundane commonplace barren indifferent lowly uneventful uninspired banal run-of-the-mill prosaic matter-of-fact featureless second-rate homespun quotidian bread-and-butter C undistinguished toneless workaday characterless bathetic singsong platitudinous prosy bromidic noteless common-or-garden ten a penny two a penny old hat unattractive unremarkable unexciting unromantic platitudinarian platitudinal half-pie stock waste routine vanilla beaten earthbound unglamorous rumdum banausic from central casting common or garden

22 单调的

even flat quiet vegetable plain dull pedestrian tame bald prose commonplace drab monotonous prosaic plodding toneless unrelieved singsong unvaried prosy subfusc boring dreary inanimate monotone dowdy samey blank mundane monochromatic dingy vapid tubby monotonic dullsville stark unexciting expressionless dead-and-alive triste heavy trivial unglamorous monochrome one-dimensional lifeless lacklustre jejune dead-alive same changeless inartificial waste mechanic blah bleak stodgy leaden ticky-tacky saltless banausic

23 无聊的话

inanity hokum jabberwocky haver shenanigan yammer

24 无聊的人

patch lemon fribble nudnik