英:['ti:dɪəsnəs]
美:['tidɪrsnəs]
英:['ti:dɪəsnəs]
美:['tidɪrsnəs]
词根:tedious
adj.tedious 沉闷的;冗长乏味的
adv.tediously 沉闷地;冗长而乏味地
n.tedium 沉闷;单调乏味;厌烦
Middle English, from Late Latin taediosus, from Latin taedium — see tedium
The first known use of tedious was in the 15th century
tee1 of 3noun
the letter t
something shaped like a capital T
informal t-shirt
tee2 of 3noun
a small peg on which a golf ball is set to be struck
an adjustable post on which a ball is placed for batting (as in T-ball)
the area from which a golf ball is struck in starting play on a hole
tee3 of 3verb
to place on a tee
teed up the ball
tediumnoun
the quality or state of being tedious : boredom
tediousadjective
tiring because of length or dullness : boring
1 Meanwhile he waited in his cell, with nothing but memories to relieve the tediousness of the long hours.
2 For all this was the very opposite of enjoyment and diversion, it was a falling into the deadly sin of tediousness.
3 The present one takes it to be his duty to suppress all irrelevance and all tediousness in debate.
4 God, if I added to the tediousness of the day to any of these guys, I’d feel awful.”
5 “Better Off” is a tongue-in-cheek meditation from someone whose situation is not at all improved, while “Just a Little Bit” reflects the tediousness of everyday lives and chores.
6 Another of their assignments was to slow-fly any plane that had a new engine to break it in; that meant flying the aircraft for a tedious hour-and-a-half as slowly as it would possibly go without falling out of the sky.
7 But the child, familiar enough with the operation, is impatient at its tediousness, and shouts till the mother is frantic.
8 His mood was chipper despite the tediousness of his task.
9 With such pleasantries as these Auckland beguiled the tediousness of official work; but in serious matters, matters affecting the interests of the public, he appears to have exerted little will of his own.
10 The tediousness and vain longing for action pressed upon us more and more closely.
11 If at last it can find entrance in no other form, it comes in the sad, grey garments of tediousness and ennui, against which we then strive in various ways.
12 His are fogbound fictions that leave themselves open to allegations of tediousness and pretension.
13 Then again, the new directors appear focused on killing tediousness in the sequel.
14 Curiosity does tip into tediousness, though, when there’s no new material.
15 Is her son determined to submit tothis, and to all the tediousness of the many years of suspense in whichit may involve you, rather than run the risk of her displeasure for awhile by owning the truth?
难道她儿子就甘心屈服,打定主意拖累着你,这么长年悬吊着,索然无味地生活下去,而不肯冒着惹她一时不快的风险,干脆向她说明事实真相?
16 Even with their speechifying and the tediousness of the story, her characters solicit your sympathy, much more than they usually do in genre science fiction.
17 Bores are peculiarly addicted to asking letters of introduction, in accordance with their system of "bestowing their tediousness" upon as many people as possible.
18 With teams spending so much time in the air, technology has played a large role in eradicating some of the tediousness that early baseball travelers experienced.
以球队在空中停留这麽长的时间,现代科技在减少早年球员在旅行时所需经历的枯燥乏味,扮演了重要的角色。
19 I would rather have the Swedes than this tediousness!
20 How could it ever top the transcendent tediousness of an assistant wrestling coach trying to follow Robert’s Rules of Order?