tedious
- adj.乏味的;冗长的;令人厌烦的;啰唆的
最高级： most tedious 比较级： more tedious 派生词： tediously adv.;tediousness n.
tedi- 疲乏,厌倦 + -ous ...的
tediousThese words all describe a subject, activity, person or place that is not interesting or exciting.以上各词均形容课题、活动、人或地方等没意思、乏味。
not interesting; making you feel tired and impatient指没有趣味的、令人厌倦或厌烦的：
He's such a boring man!
他就是这么一个惹人烦的人！
She found her job very boring.
她觉得自己的工作很无聊。
not interesting or exciting指枯燥无味的、沉闷的：
Life in a small town could be deadly dull.
小城镇的生活可能会非常没意思。
lasting or taking too long and not interesting, so that you feel bored and impatient指冗长的、单调乏味的、令人厌烦的：
The journey soon became tedious.
那次旅行不久就变得乏味起来。
not attracting your interest or attention指无趣的、无聊的：
The food was dull and uninteresting.
食物单调得很，一点也不吸引人。
boring because it lacks human interest指干巴巴的、枯燥无味的：
Government reports tend to make dry reading.
政府报告读起来往往枯燥无味。
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- using or containing too many words
- long-winded (or windy) speakers
- verbose and ineffective instructional methods
- newspapers of the day printed long wordy editorials
- proceedings were delayed by wordy disputes
- Synonym: long-winded verbose windy wordy
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- so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness
- a boring evening with uninteresting people
- the deadening effect of some routine tasks
- a dull play
- his competent but dull performance
- a ho-hum speaker who couldn't capture their attention
- what an irksome task the writing of long letters is"- Edmund Burk
- tedious days on the train
- the tiresome chirping of a cricket"- Mark Twai
- other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome
- Synonym: boring deadening dull ho-hum irksome slow tiresome wearisome
数据来源：WordNet
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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。
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Ironing is such a tedious chore ! There 's no fun and it always takes me at least half an hour !
（熨衣服真的是个枯燥乏味的家务活！它不仅无趣，而且总要花掉我至少要半个小时的时间！）
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We had to listen to the tedious details of his operation .
我们不得不听他唠叨他那次行动繁琐的细节。
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The journey soon became tedious .
那次旅行不久就变得乏味起来。
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The lecture was mind-numbingly tedious .
那堂课冗长乏味。
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Such lists are long and tedious to read .
这种表单读起来冗长乏味。
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Reading from a tedious technical brief for hours on end , he would stray into difficult territory .
连续看上几个小时枯燥的技术简报后，他会不自觉地钻起牛角尖来。
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The band 's approach tends to be crushingly tedious .
该乐队的演奏方式往往过于单调乏味。
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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。
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He was not used to the tedious of life in a small country town .
他不适应这种乡村小镇的单调生活。
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This is a good novel , except for the long and tedious ending .
这本小说很好，美中不足的是结尾太冗长了。
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Tedious as it is , he finds pleasure in reading the book .
那本书虽然枯燥，他读起来却乐在其中。
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The job was so tedious and tiring that ebby decided to chuck it up .
那活儿非常枯燥累人，艾比决定不干了。
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Many people use a calculator to cut down on tedious number-crunching .
（许多人用计算器来减少枯燥繁琐的数字运算。）
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Filing papers at the office is a tedious job .
在办公室整理文件是一项很单调的工作
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Tedious teaching methods and teaching organization , and so on .
教学方法单一、组织形式呆板等。
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The author use new methods to reduce complex experiments and tedious calculations .
为了减少复杂的实验和冗长的计算，著者采用了新方法。
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Too many abstract statements made his paper very tedious to me .
他的读书报告抽象的讲法太多使我生厌。
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This tedious report is made us being fed up .
这个冗长的报告令人厌烦。
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Make learning English fun , rather than tedious .
让学习英文更有趣而不乏味。
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I find cleaning tedious at the best of times .
即使在最好的情况下，我也觉得清洁工作让人厌烦。
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The cases become a bit tedious because they have similar outcomes .
案例有些冗长，因为他们的结果相似。
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The price is due to the tedious process of harvesting it .
如此高的价格是由于其冗长乏味的采摘加工过程。
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This can make the implementation of programs tedious and error prone .
这可能造成程序的实现冗长乏味而且容易出错。
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Handling forms can be one of the most tedious tasks in Web applications .
处理表单是Web应用程序中最繁琐的工作之一。
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The goal of the system is to cut down on a traditionally tedious process .
这套系统的目标是减少传统上非常繁琐的挑选过程。
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This part library reduces product design to standard component tedious and repeated work in the design .
该零件库减少了产品设计中对于标准件设计中繁琐且重复性的工作。
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Is this * Most tedious first date ever ?
第一次约会都是这么沉闷吗？
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Creating WSDL interfaces using a text editor can be tedious .
使用文本来创建WSDL接口无疑是非常繁琐的。
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It is tedious and time - consuming to calculate the result of coal - analysis .
煤炭分析结果的计算工作量大、繁琐费时。