tedium
英 [ˈtiːdiəm]
美 [ˈtiːdiəm]
n. 单调乏味; 冗长; 啰唆
BNC.18839 / COCA.21125
牛津词典
noun
- 单调乏味；冗长；啰唆
the quality of being boring- 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。
- She longed for something to relieve the tedium of everyday life.
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.- 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。
- She began to wonder whether she wouldn't go mad with the tedium of the job.
英英释义
noun
- dullness owing to length or slowness
- the feeling of being bored by something tedious
双语例句
- Possibly, because I have an even more outrageous suggestion that will increase any perceived tedium.
也许会，因为我甚至还有一个更极端的建议，那将会增加任何已觉察到的麻烦。 - It was another day of mind-numbing tedium.
又是一个令人麻木的单调乏味的日子。 - 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。 - 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。 - We desire that we may do so without an amount of tedium which ordinary human nature cannot endure with patience.
我们希望我们可以这么做而不感到相当单调，因为那是通常的人性所不能忍耐的。 - In that case, it will be back to the tedium.
如果是那样的话，又会回到一个沉闷乏味的阶段中。 - 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 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。 - Soldiers often say that the worst thing about fighting is not the moments of terror, but all the hours of tedium in between.
士兵们常说关于打仗最糟的事不是那些恐怖的时刻，而是那些时刻之间沉闷的几个小时。 - A study from University College London showed that those who complain of boredom are more likely to die young, and those who report high levels of tedium are much more likely to die from heart disease or stroke.
根据伦敦大学学院的研究显示，那些抱怨工作无聊的人更有可能英年早逝，而那些对工作感到厌恶的人则更有可能死于心脏病或中风。