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tedium

/tee-dee-uhm/US // ˈti di əm //UK // (ˈtiːdɪəm) //

乏味,枯燥乏味,枯燥无味,枯燥乏味的生活

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the quality or state of being wearisome; irksomeness; tediousness.

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Examples

  • It keeps getting uttered out loud by players and coaches even in a sport languishing in the boredom of boardrooms and the tedium of mergers and acquisitions.

  • If we want to make progress, that requires the kind of persistence and tedium that is not glamorous.

  • If you’re like most Americans, the past year has been a time of fear, anxiety and often profound tedium—but also of worsening dietary habits.

  • Getting shots to more people would bring a quicker end to the tedium.

  • The work is ceaseless and routine to the point of tedium—and almost half of primary-care physicians are burnt out.

  • What is it about bleakness and tedium that are so attractive, other than the fact that most people instinctively recoil from it?

  • A third night in hospital for Kate tonight, but the tedium was relieved by a visit from brother James and sister Pippa.

  • He advised diners to flee “right back out the door … you will be spared an infinitely larger measure of tedium.”

  • Since I loathe the tedium of gym workouts, I take breaks for tennis with my eclectic group of tennis pals.

  • Tom and Blanche had fallen into teasing tricks, a sort of melancholy play to relieve the tedium.

  • Everything that wealth and loving care could secure was provided by Bruce to lessen the tedium of the journey.

  • Idleness is the friend of love; and passengers have little or nothing to do to while away the tedium of a voyage.

  • He then begged the patriarch to give him some books to copy, to rid himself of the tedium of his idleness.

  • I certainly do not believe that the Martians are subjected to the tedium of walking.