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tediously

/tee-dee-uhs, tee-juhs/US // ˈti di əs, ˈti dʒəs //UK // (ˈtiːdɪəs) //

乏味地,冗长地,冗长的,乏味的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : marked by monotony or tedium; long and tiresome: tedious tasks; a tedious journey.
    • : wordy so as to cause weariness or boredom, as a speaker, a writer, or the work they produce; prolix.

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Examples

  • Reading straight through a 1000-word article, no matter how well-written, can become tedious quickly.

  • While Google asserts that its competition is “just a click away,” Weinberg argues a user would have to take four to five tedious steps to make DuckDuckGo the default search engine.

  • So that’s another function that is now being automated by AI because it’s another piece of work that’s really a lot of tedious, detailed work.

  • Site inspections are slow and tedious, says Sophie Morris at Buildots, a civil engineer who used to work in construction before joining the company.

  • So, speaking of robots, there’s always this discussion about automation in the work that robots can do instead of people, specifically those “tedious tasks,” that allow humans to do more creative work.

  • In one particularly telling scene, Jobs walks into a bay where his employees are tediously working away.

  • A Walmart has 140,000 SKUs, which have to be tediously sorted, replaced on shelves, reordered, delivered, and so forth.

  • To make the images print-ready, H.A. tediously redrew his watercolor images as color separations, layer by layer.

  • I remember myself—as a sort of anti-climax to that—rather tediously asking my way home.

  • The next three days passed slowly and tediously for most of the guests assembled at Grey Abbey.

  • The first were egotistic, the second wholly unjudicial, the third laboriously and tediously reminiscent.

  • A frail old woman, moving tediously, ushered him into the hall, shading her weak eyes while she awaited his errand.

  • The list of magical superstitions that have retained a hold among us would be found tediously long.