ennui

1 When the antiproton was discovered … it sent a wave of ennui through the physics community. Not that its discovery was unimportant, but on the basis of Dirac's theory, everybody expected it.

2 So the Japanese have settled into a postmodernist ennui, an Asian outpost of that European condition, but in a more dangerous part of the world.

日本人现在已经安于后现代主义的倦怠，这个亚洲前哨的现状如同欧洲一样，但比欧洲危险。

3 And too often, unfortunately, it is undone by a grating aura of chic ennui.

4 The condition of being bored; ennui.

厌烦，厌倦，令人厌烦的事物。

5 I do remember seeing John Humphrys, sitting very calmly, with just a faint look of ennui.

6 ‘La Turista,’ at the moment, is basking in a glow of uncertain approval which is maintained only by suppressing the ennui it unquestionably engenders.”

7 There was angst and ennui all the time.

8 His autopsy of the current liberal ennui is not particularly trenchant or surprising, but it’s certainly amusing.

9 Her boyfriend had always seemed mild-mannered, the end of their relationship more death by ennui.

10 About a year ago, I found myself overcome by ennui.

11 In its early scenes, the movie portrays the ennui of an economically stagnant culture in which the outlook for the country’s aimless, unemployed youth is cloudy.

12 As Gordon, McNairy is certainly on point, making us feel the burden of his engineering ennui and desire to build something revolutionary.

13 She infuses a very post-post-modern balance of rage and artistry, ennui and activism, with an unparalleled degree of humor, brains and sex appeal.

14 There is a chaotic energy to the characters — who drink and party around Platonov, a local Casanova, to evade ennui in a Russian province — that makes it especially well-suited to young actors.

15 Although sprightly in tone and merciless in its put-downs of the younger generation, this is really a play about postwar ennui, the sterility of the City and the banality of suburbia.

16 CANNES, France — La dolce vita came to Cannes on Tuesday, thanks to a pair of films set in Italy exploring lives of affluent ennui.

17 Two of his sons lent a hand on separate tunes, with the award for sangfroid going to toddler Mac for rattling a tambourine with impressive ennui.

18 Fendt is more interested in tracing the architecture of their ennui than considering its cause or consequences, and the movie observes their leisure with a warm gaze.

19 Did we really need another show about the nebulous ennui visited upon the privileged?

20 The hour dramatizes the talking points of the political present: race, health care, the struggle of small businesses, the general ennui that this election cycle has produced in many voters.

1 倦怠

slack listless languorous tiredness listlessness languor lassitude wan lethargic debility inanition lethargy remiss supine blah acedia accidie languish

2 厌烦

loathy sick tired wearied tormenting loathful annoyingly boredom scunner tire bore displease be weary of be fed up with have and enough of cheesed off brown off brassed off tired of browned-off weary pissed wearily irk weariness disrelish cloy overcloy exercise worry labor bind fracture plague dislike displeasure sate pall have a snoot full

3 厌倦

sick tired wearing jaded wearily boredom weariness sicken tire weary jack tedium irk sick of sour on be fed up chocker doldrums lassitude aweary bore wear pall cheesed off bored stale fed up fatigue browned off with browned off indisposed ho-hum dully flack out brown off

4 忧愁

unhappy sorrowful distress gall dole dool

5 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 humdrum for the birds frivolous prosaic boredom phooey dry ordinary boring vacant unarresting wear gay dull lame stuffy hacky footling hard up routine wrong poor flat thin empty slight blank silly petty barren moonshine trifling pokey rigmarole poky rubbishing fiddle-faddle boresome slipslop disagreeably nothingness vacuity frivol slip-slop dead dusty dismal wonky balmy menial uninspiring inane vagabond slushy naff stupefied dopey diddly fribble piffling diddly-shit milk-and-water banausic fuff hop frog futility knacker dullsville

6 无所事事

idle vacant vacuous about vacancy idleness potchger play fester loll eat head off fake off

7 枯燥乏味

sterile laborious soulless soul-destroying