| 单词 | 乏味 |
| 释义 | DEFINITIVE EXAMPLES 权威例句〔BORING/BORED〕Going to night school might improve your chances of getting out of that humdrum job. 上夜校也许能使你更有可能摆脱那份单调乏味的工作。朗文写作活用〔BORING/BORED〕What a boring way to spend an evening! 这样子过一个晚上多么乏味啊！朗文写作活用〔CHOOSE〕Maybe I'm too picky, but all the guys I meet seem so boring. 可能是我太挑剔了，但是我遇到的家伙似乎都很乏味。朗文写作活用〔Louis Treize〕Of, relating to, or characteristic of the heavy late-Renaissance style in architecture, furniture, and decoration of the reign of Louis XIII.路易十三世式样的：属于，或具有路易十三世统治时建筑，家具和装饰方面的冗长乏味的后文艺复兴风格特点的，或与之有关的美国传统〔WORK〕Technological advances have taken much of the drudgery out of the assembly line and car plant. 技术进步为装配线和汽车制造厂省去了许多辛苦乏味的工作。朗文写作活用〔WORK〕Work feels like such a grind lately. 近来工作让人感觉如此乏味。朗文写作活用〔admin〕Alison has to do all those dull admin jobs like mail-outs and answering the telephone.艾莉森必须做所有那些乏味的行政工作, 比如寄邮件和接电话。外研社新世纪〔bearable〕He found the dullness of his work hardly bearable.他觉得自己的工作枯燥乏味，简直无法忍受。牛津搭配〔beginning〕If it's anything like last year's party, it'll be dull from beginning to end.如果是像去年那样的聚会，那从头到尾都会乏味得很。麦克米伦高阶〔blah〕I thought the show was blah.我觉得这场表演实在乏味。剑桥高阶〔bland〕The film was bland and forgettable.这部电影枯燥乏味, 看完就忘。外研社新世纪〔boredom〕Sorting mail is not a job for people with a low boredom threshold.分拣邮件不适合那些不太能忍受乏味工作的人。牛津搭配〔boring〕The journey soon became tedious.那次旅行不久就变得乏味起来。牛津高阶〔brighten〕His cheerful face brightens up the dullest of days.他的笑脸让最乏味的日子变得充满生气。柯林斯高阶〔challenge〕The work doesn't challenge him anymore, and he's often bored.这工作对他不再具有挑战性，他时常感到乏味。韦氏高阶〔characterless〕The town is boring and characterless.这座城镇枯燥乏味, 毫无特色。外研社新世纪〔close〕There is a simplicity about the interior which comes close to blandness.室内布置得很简单, 几乎到了单调乏味的地步。外研社新世纪〔clunk〕Informal A stupid, dull person.【非正式用语】 笨蛋：愚蠢乏味之人美国传统〔concerted〕He made a concerted effort to win me away from my steady, sweet but boring boyfriend.他费尽心思想把我从我那稳健、温柔但却有些乏味的男朋友身边抢走。柯林斯高阶〔contrast〕The red stems of this bush provide a contrast to the drab brown of the winter garden.这种灌木红色的茎和冬天里这座花园乏味的棕色形成了对比。朗文当代〔crap〕It is a tedious, humourless load of crap.那是一堆枯燥乏味、毫无幽默感的废话。柯林斯高阶〔creep〕Slang An annoyingly unpleasant or repulsive person.【俚语】 讨厌的家伙：一个令人讨厌的、乏味的或引起反感的人美国传统〔dead〕His poems sound dead boring, actually.实际上，他的诗听起来非常乏味。柯林斯高阶〔donkey work〕Why do I have to do all the donkey work? 我为什么得做这些乏味的苦差事呢？麦克米伦高阶〔dour〕The city, drab and dour by day, is transformed at night.这座城市白天死气沉沉、单调乏味，晚上就完全变了样。牛津高阶〔doze off〕The film was so boring that I dozed off in the middle of it.那部影片很乏味，我看了一半便打起瞌睡来了。21世纪英汉〔drearily〕They live such dreary lives.他们的生活如此乏味！柯林斯高阶〔drone on〕The meeting droned on (或 along).会议在拖沓乏味地进行下去。21世纪英汉〔drudgery〕He hated the drudgery of his job.他非常讨厌他那单调乏味的工作。韦氏高阶〔drudgery〕People want to get away from the drudgery of their everyday lives.人们想摆脱日常生活中单调乏味的工作。柯林斯高阶〔dull〕She wrote dull, respectable articles for the local newspaper.她为当地报纸写一些乏味的官样文章。剑桥高阶〔dull〕The movie was long and deadly dull.这部电影既冗长又枯燥乏味。牛津搭配〔dull〕The play we saw last night was very dull.昨晚我们看的那出戏乏味得很。英汉大词典〔eradicate〕If tedious tasks could be eradicated, the world would be a much better place.如果可以消灭那些单调乏味的工作，世界将会变得更加美好。柯林斯高阶〔escape〕For her, travel was an escape from the boredom of her everyday life.对她来说，旅行就是逃离乏味的日常生活。牛津高阶〔fail〕Many diets fail because they are boring.许多规定饮食因单调乏味都不奏效。牛津高阶〔flat〕The performance is flat.那场演出沉闷乏味。英汉大词典〔generality〕The Secretary of State has given us nothing today but bland generalities.国务卿今天只讲了几句乏味的空话。朗文当代〔grinding〕I admire their spirit in the face of such grinding tedium.我钦佩他们面对这种无休止的枯燥乏味所表现出的精神。外研社新世纪〔grunt〕He's just a grunt in the attorney's office.他只是个在律师事务所里干着普通乏味工作的人。韦氏高阶〔hard〕I find some of his friends pretty hard going.我觉得他的有些朋友相当乏味。朗文当代〔insipid〕I used to find him insipid.我过去老觉得他很乏味。外研社新世纪〔insupportable〕Life without Anna had no savour, was tedious, insupportable.没有安娜的生活毫无情趣,单调乏味,不可忍受。柯林斯高阶〔light〕A lively argument between the two main speakers provided some light relief (= something enjoyable or amusing) in an otherwise dull conference.两位主要发言者间活跃的争论是一种愉悦轻松的调剂。否则， 会议实在枯燥乏味。剑桥高阶〔lustre〕What do you do if your relationship is beginning to lose its lustre?如果爱情开始变得平淡乏味该怎么办？外研社新世纪〔middle-aged〕Her novels are middle-aged and boring.她的小说刻板乏味。柯林斯高阶〔middleaged〕She felt middle-aged and dull.她感觉自己像个中年人，无聊乏味。牛津搭配〔middle〕I enjoyed the film but the middle was a bit boring.我喜欢这部电影, 不过中间部分有点乏味。外研社新世纪〔mild〕He is a mild man, who is reasonable almost to the point of blandness.他为人温和，几乎通情达理到了令人乏味的地步。柯林斯高阶〔mind-numbingly〕It was another day of mind-numbing tedium.又是一个令人麻木的单调乏味的日子。柯林斯高阶〔mind〕Most gardens designed with children in mind are safe but dull.大多数设计时考虑到了儿童的花园都很安全，却也单调乏味。朗文当代〔moment〕We had an exciting vacation. There was never a dull moment.我们度过了一个令人兴奋的假期，没有片刻乏味无聊。韦氏高阶〔monochrome〕There, life is happy, easy, but also monochrome and dull.在那里, 生活是幸福的、安逸的, 但也是乏味的、无聊的。外研社新世纪〔monotonously〕The teacher droned on monotonously.老师单调乏味地唠叨个不停。韦氏高阶〔mundane〕Initially, the work was pretty mundane.刚开始，工作非常乏味。朗文当代〔notwithstanding〕Thomas Carlyle, notwithstanding his tedious rhetoric, is a master of the sublime in prose style.托马斯·卡莱尔,尽管他的措辞冗长乏味,但其文体隽永优美,不失为一位散文大师。英汉大词典〔overwrite〕The novel was overwritten and dull.这部小说写得冗长乏味。韦氏高阶〔pall〕To have a dulling, wearisome, or boring effect.扫兴：有单调、乏味或令人厌烦的影响美国传统〔peg〕I don't know how people peg away at such a dull job.我不知道人们怎么能够坚持不懈地做一件那么乏味的工作。麦克米伦高阶〔pep〕The food tasted rather bland, so he added some spices to pep it up a little.这食品太乏味，于是他加了一些调料提提味。21世纪英汉〔predictable〕He's very nice, but I find him rather dull and predictable.他为人很不错，但我觉得他相当呆板乏味。牛津高阶〔prosaic〕Lacking in imagination and spirit; dull.乏味的：缺乏想象力和灵感的；无趣的美国传统〔pulse〕There was little to quicken the pulse in his dull routine.枯燥乏味的日常工作中几乎没有什么能激起他的热情。牛津搭配〔repertoire〕The comedian's repertoire of jokes was becoming stale.喜剧演员的一应插科打诨的招儿全在变得陈腐乏味。英汉大词典〔routine〕My job is so routine and boring - I hate it.我的工作一成不变，枯燥乏味——我厌烦透了。剑桥高阶〔routine〕This type of work rapidly becomes routine.这种工作很快就变得乏味无聊。牛津高阶〔rubber-chicken circuit〕A monotonous series of events, such as lunches and dinners often featuring chicken, which politicians and heads of state feel compelled to attend.单调乏味的巡回鸡宴：政治家和国家首脑不得不参加的一系列单调的事件，如以鸡肉为特色的午餐和晚宴美国传统〔rut〕If you don't go out and meet new people, it's easy to get into a rut.如果你不出门结识新朋友，你的生活就容易变得刻板乏味。牛津高阶〔samey〕He has written five samey novels.他写了五部相似而乏味的小说。韦氏高阶〔see〕This type of work is often seen as boring.这种工作常常被认为是单调乏味的。朗文当代〔split〕This is boring. Let's split.乏味透了,咱们走吧。英汉大词典〔square〕Slang Rigidly conventional; dull.【俚语】 古板守旧的；乏味的美国传统〔tease ... out〕It took us a long time to tease out the important facts from a dry mass of details.我们花了很长时间从一大堆枯燥乏味的细节中理出重要的事实。21世纪英汉〔tedious〕He found committee meetings extremely tedious.他觉得委员会会议乏味至极。牛津搭配〔translation〕The English version is boring - maybe it has lost something in translation (= is not as good as the original).英语版读起来枯燥乏味——也许翻译得有点儿走味。剑桥高阶〔trite〕The simple concepts he had been taught now sounded trite and naive.他曾经学到的那些简单概念现在听起来乏味而幼稚。外研社新世纪〔unexciting〕He is regarded as very capable but unexciting.他被认为非常能干, 但是乏味无趣。外研社新世纪〔unfashionable〕She felt boring and unfashionable.她感到自己既乏味又不合潮流。麦克米伦高阶〔uninspired〕She gave an uninspired performance.她的表演单调乏味。韦氏高阶〔wallpaper〕It's bland, wallpaper music.这是乏味的墙纸音乐。外研社新世纪〔wearying〕But all of it grew wearying with repetition.但是一味的重复使这一切都变得无聊乏味起来。外研社新世纪Electronic information retrieval will remove much of the drudgery of research and leave time for the more interesting bits.电子寻找信息能解除研究中大量辛苦乏味的工作，省下时间做更为有趣的事。剑桥国际He found her uninteresting as a person. 他发现她是个很乏味的人。译典通He's boring, but I suppose he has his good points.他很乏味，但我认为他也有长处。剑桥国际Her speech was dull and boring, despite an attempt at jocularity at the end.她的发言平淡乏味，尽管在结束时试图幽默一下。剑桥国际His films are so slow they send me to sleep.他的电影太乏味以致使我睡着了。剑桥国际I was so bored that I slept through the second half of the film.我感到很乏味，于是在电影的后半部分睡着没有醒来。剑桥国际It was a dull speech, full of much-used expressions and cliches.那演说乏味得很，满篇都是陈词滥调。剑桥国际Somehow this avoids being just another silly pop song with anodyne lyrics about love and happiness.好歹这支歌避免了成为又一首充斥着关于爱和幸福的平庸乏味歌词的、无聊的流行歌曲。剑桥国际That lecture really tested my powers of endurance, it was so boring.那堂课真是在考验我的忍耐力，它是那么乏味。剑桥国际The book I was reading was so boring that I bailed out after the first couple of chapters.那本书很乏味，我读了开头几章就不想读了。剑桥国际The children were bored by the flatness of the long winter night. 漫长冬夜的单调使孩子们感到乏味。译典通The film has a boringly predictable ending.这部影片有一个乏味可预见的结尾。剑桥国际The film was so boring I fell asleep.这部影片太乏味了，我睡着了。剑桥国际The joke fell flat--no one laughed.那玩笑乏味得很----谁也没有笑。剑桥国际The trouble is I find most forms of exercise so tedious.问题是我觉得大多数形式的操练都很乏味。剑桥国际They are still continuing with the sterile argument about capitalism versus socialism.他们仍在有关资本主义和社会主义的问题上进行乏味的争论。剑桥国际Tina's party was very boring--it was full of her business associates.蒂娜的聚会十分乏味----去的都是她生意场上的熟人。剑桥国际We have to go to dinner with Simon's boss on Saturday which is a bit of a yawn.星期六我们不得不与西蒙的老板一起去吃饭，这真有点儿乏味。剑桥国际Well, we all know about sitting through boring lunches where the guest speaker drones on and on ad infinitum.我们都了解坐在乏味的午宴中，听着客人永无休止唠叨下去的情形。剑桥国际 |
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