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adj.单调的⁴⁵;乏味的²⁵n.乏味的谈话⁵;无聊²⁵
乏味
Noun:
the quality of wearisome constancy, routine, and lack of variety;he had never grown accustomed to the monotony of his work he was sick of the humdrum of his fellow prisoners he hated the sameness of the food the college served
Adjective:
not challenging; dull and lacking excitement;an unglamorous job greasing engines tediously repetitious or lacking in variety;a humdrum existence; all work and no play nothing is so monotonous as the sea hum,嗡嗡叫，-drum,由hum杜撰出来的同韵词。引申义乏味的，单调的。GRE红宝书humn 嗡嗡声, drumn 鼓声－嗡嗡的鼓声一单调的
hum 哼，嗡嗡声 + drum 鼓
组合词：hum嗡嗡声 +drum鼓声→单调的GRE难词记忆humdrum → hum v.嗡 嗡 叫+drum v.打鼓，发出嗡嗡声→单调的嗡嗡声humv.嗡嗡叫+drumv.打鼓，发出嗡嗡声⇒单调的嗡嗡声组合词hum嗡嗡声+ drum鼓声⇒单调的近义词 dull呆滞的boredom无聊deadly致命的monotony单调literal逐字的everyday日常的practical明智的routine例行公事monotonous单调的boring令人厌烦的sameness千篇一律commonplace平凡的tedious单调乏味的prosaic单调乏味的tiresome令人厌倦的unglamourous单调的unglamorous没有魅力的unexciting不令人兴奋的…
形容词85%,名词15%
用作形容词After his years of adventure, he could not settle down to ahumdrumlife.多年的冒险生涯使他无法安下心来过这种单调的生活。
The accountant said it was the mosthumdrumday that she had ever passed.会计师说这是她所度过的最无聊的一天。用作名词Imagination raises a man above thehumdrumof life.想象使人从单调无聊的生活中解脱出来。adj.boring, uneventful
同义词 drab,dreary,everyday,monotonous,mundane,plodding,tedious,uninterestingblah,common,commonplace,monotone,ordinary,pedestrian,routine,treadmill,vanillaarid,banausic,bromidic,dim,dime a dozen,dull,garden-variety,insipid,lifeless,prosy,repetitious,tiresome,toneless,unvaried,wearisome,white-bread
反义词 exciting,interesting,abnormal,different,exceptional,extraordinary,rare,uncommon,unusualbusy,eventful,lively
averageadjective normal, typical
boilerplate,common,commonplace,customary,dime a dozen,everyday,fair,fair to middling,familiar,garden,garden-variety,general,intermediate,mainstream,mediocre,medium,middle-of-the-road,middling,moderate,nowhere,ordinary,passable,plastic,regular,run of the mill,so-so,standard,tolerable,undistinguished,unexceptional,usual
banaladjective commonplace
blah,bland,bromidic,clichéd,common,conventional,cornball,cornfed,corny,dull as dishwater,dumb,everyday,flat,hackneyed,ho-hum,hokey,humdrum,insipid,mundane,noplace,nothing,nowhere,old hat,ordinary,pabulum,pedestrian,platitudinous,square,stale,stereotyped,stock,stupid,tired,tripe,trite,unimaginative,unoriginal,vapid,watery,wishy-washy,zero
blahadjective dull, lifeless
banausic,bland,boring,dreary,humdrum,monotone,monotonous,pedestrian,plodding,yawn producing
blandadjective tasteless;undistinctive
banal,blah,boring,dull,dull as dishwater,flat,flavorless,ho-hum,humdrum,insipid,milk-and-water,monotonous,nerdy,nothing,pabulum,sapless,tame,tedious,unexciting,uninspiring,uninteresting,unstimulating,vanilla,vapid,waterish,watery,weak,white-bread,wimpy,wishy-washy,zero
boringadjective uninteresting
arid,bomb,bromidic,bummer,characterless,cloying,colorless,commonplace,dead,drab,drag,drudging,dull,flat,ho-hum,humdrum,insipid,interminable,irksome,lifeless,monotonous,moth-eaten,mundane,nothing,nowhere,platitudinous,plebeian,prosaic,repetitious,routine,spiritless,stale,stereotyped,stodgy,stuffy,stupid,tame,tedious,threadbare,tiresome,tiring,trite,unexciting,uninteresting,unvaried,vapid,wearisome,well-worn,zero
commonadjective average, ordinary
accepted,banal,bourgeois,casual,characteristic,colloquial,comformable,commonplace,conventional,current,customary,daily,everyday,familiar,frequent,general,habitual,hackneyed,homely,humdrum,informal,mediocre,monotonous,natural,passable,plain,prevailing,prevalent,probable,prosaic,regular,routine,run-of-the-mill,simple,stale,standard,stereotyped,stock,trite,trivial,typical,undistinguished,universal,unvaried,usual,wearisome,workaday,worn-out And officials, not stick- wielding security thugs, are now supposed to respond when humdrum grievances—a broken water pipe, say— bring people on to the street.
官员们不再是挥舞棍棒的暴徒，而对一些水管爆裂之类的琐事抱怨作出回应，他们会说——把人们带到街上去。 yeeyan
By never letting life get static, this woman busts the myth that being married means feeling humdrum.
从不让生活变得停滞不前，这样的女人打破了结婚就意味着单调无聊的无稽之谈。 yeeyan
Film exhibition was until recently a humdrum business.
直到最近，电影展成为一项无聊的业务。 ecocn.org
In normal times, the humdrum business of shifting widgets from one location to another gets little attention outside the supply chain management fraternity.
平常时期，除了供应链管理协会，几乎没人会注意这样一项单调工作：将小部件从一个地点运至另一地点。 robertafnani.com
The problem with putting yourself on a pedestal is that it is hard to get down from it and engage in the humdrum work of politics.
一旦别人把你当成了偶像，你就难以摆脱这个影子，投入到单调的政治活动中。 ecocn
What is left is rather humdrum. One task is to chair some sectoral councils, for instance of agriculture ministers.
剩下的工作就比较乏味了，包括组织某行业的会议，比如农业部长会议。 ecocn
“The Plot” could be shorter: much of the social commentary gets humdrum after a while.
“普劳特”的确很短暂，正如很多社会评论一样昙花一现。 ecocn
Companies use the term“ commodity business” to describe humdrum, low- margin activities.
厂商使用“过度竞争行业”来形容长期乏味、利润低下的业务。 ecocn
EVEN advocates of the latest Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty between America and Russia admit that it is a humdrum document.
即便是美俄两国中最新战略武器削减条约的支持者也表示，这是个乏味的文件。 ecocn
He has helped thousands of men and women change their lives from boring, humdrum, sometimes debilitated existences to vibrant, meaningful, rewarding lives.
它已经帮助了成千上万的男男女女，由无聊、单调沉闷、有时甚至是无精打采的生存转变成为充满活力、富有意义、令人满意的生活。 yeeyan
Imagination raises a man above the humdrum of life.
想象使人从单调无聊的生活中解脱出来。《新英汉大辞典》
It becomes economical to automate some aspects of the work, employing machines to do the deadening humdrum toil that men and women are no longer willing to put up with.
把一部分工作自动化、使用机器去做那些男人和女人都不愿再忍受的、减弱的、乏味的、劳累的工作将会变得经济。 ecocn
Last but not least, students’ creativity tends to be repressed due to the humdrum and dull homework.
最后，学生们的创造力在单调乏味的作业压力下受到极大的压抑。 kekenet
Most of it is humdrum, but occasionally we get something exciting and that's what we're hoping for when we check our email.
大多数邮件都让人乏味，但是当我们在一堆邮件里偶然间发现了一直要找的邮件时会很兴奋。 yeeyan
Mr Ganesh’s job, issuing Indian visas to Afghans, often for medical treatment, sounds humdrum.
加内甚的工作是发放到阿富汗的印度签证大部分是医疗签证，这样的工作听起来十分单调。 ecocn
That is, the more familiar humdrum event of death here your body ceases functioning and you end up having a corpse that gets buried and so forth.
这是死亡最常见的单调的形式,肉体停止一切功能,人最终成为尸体，放进棺材埋葬。163
The appeals court later ruled that the two firms were far closer competitors with each other than with more humdrum stores, but by then the merger had been consummated.
上诉法院后来裁定这两家公司相对于普通商店来说，确实是非常紧密的竞争者。不过那时为时已晚，合并业已完成。 ecocn
Their lives consist of the humdrum activities of everyday existence.
他们的生活由日常生存的平凡活动所构成。 hjenglish
They are not buying middle- class, humdrum clothes.
他们买的并不是中产阶级穿的那些单调衣服。 yeeyan
Was it a humdrum crime of trying to steal banking details?
这是一种用以盗窃银行数据的普通犯罪活动？ ecocn
What Orpheus does produce are performances that are rarely humdrum, unlike all too many big-name orchestras.
与绝大多数大牌管弦乐团的演奏不同，奥菲斯乐团的表演的确很少给人产生单调乏味之感。 ecocn
Humdrum office life was briefly interrupted with a little drama.
单调的办公室生活被一场小小的剧目短暂打断了。 ebigear |