tedium

英 [ˈtiːdiəm]

美 [ˈtiːdiəm]

n.  单调乏味; 冗长; 啰唆

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BNC.18839 / COCA.21125

牛津词典

noun

• 单调乏味；冗长；啰唆
  the quality of being boring
  1. 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。

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.
  1. 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。

英英释义

noun

• dullness owing to length or slowness
  Synonym:tediousnesstiresomeness
• the feeling of being bored by something tedious
  Synonym:boredomennui

双语例句

• 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。
• The good work can certainly relieve the tedium of people to advertise height of be on guard with hundred percently!
  好作品一定能够解除人们对广告高度的戒备与十足的厌烦！
• 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。
• The most notable quality of the meeting was its sheer tedium.
  会议最突出的特点是它的单调乏味。
• After all, any complicated operation that can be automated is tedium that can be avoided.
  毕竟任何复杂的操作只要能够自动进行，就可以不那么烦闷了。
• 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 everyday existence does not tarnish my view of life, nor does it tamper with my ability to criticize it.
  日常生存的单调乏味并没有影响我的人生观，也没有削弱我批判生活的能力。
• 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。
• The expense and tedium of ferries or Eurostar would be a thing of the past.
  渡船或乘坐欧洲之星（eurostar）的费用和烦闷将成为历史。
• It all adds up to a simulacrum of French village life but without the tedium, because you are in the epicentre of civilisation.
  这全都构成了法国乡村生活的假象，不过并没有乡村生活的单调，因为你正身处文明的中心。