词汇 | tedious |
释义 | tediousWord family nountediositytediousnesstediumadjectivetedioustedisometedyadverbtediously te·di·ous /ˈtiːdiəs/ ●○○ adjectiveadj BORINGsomething that is tedious continues for a long time and is not interesting 枯燥乏味的;冗长的 SYN boring The work was tiring and tedious. ► see thesaurus at boring 这工作既累人又枯燥。 —tediously adverbadv a tediously long film 一部冗长的电影 Examples from the Corpus tedious• Doing all those calculations without a computer would be extremely tedious.• But he had come to find her tedious.• The very rigid structure looks tedious and clumsy to us humans, but we are not meant to be reading it.• In truth, she found watching the endless circuiting a little tedious and especially when there was no one to talk to.• Bullens Creek had started off tiny and tedious and gone downhill from there.• But because this group of people is isolated, the routines may assume a particularly tedious, inexorable character.• a tedious lecture• In order to use them, however, they require a rather tedious peeling process.• It was one of the most tedious plays I've ever had to sit through.• It would be tedious to recapitulate the substance of Addison's tributes. (1400-1500) Late Latin taediosus, from Latin taedium, from taedere “to disgust, make tired” |
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