Tedious
['tiːdɪəs] or ['tidɪəs]
解释:
(a.) Involving tedium; tiresome from continuance, prolixity, slowness, or the like; wearisome.
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同义词及近义词:
a. Wearisome (in consequence of being prolonged), tiresome, operose, IRKSOME, fatiguing, uninteresting, too long, monotonous, humdrum, prosy, MORTAL, trying, devoid of interest.
整理:谢尔登
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Wearisome, tiresome, monotonous, dilatory, dreary, sluggish, irksome, dull,flat, prolix
ANT:Interesting, exciting, stirring, charming, fascinating, delightful, amusing
编辑:露西尔
解释:
adj. wearisome: tiresome from length or slowness: irksome: slow.—n. Tedios′ity tediousness.—adv. Tē′diously.—n. Tē′diousness.
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例句:
- I am afraid you have had a tedious ride; John drives so slowly; you must be cold, come to the fire. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- What time, the mail-coach lumbered, jolted, rattled, and bumped upon its tedious way, with its three fellow-inscrutables inside. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- It would be tedious to repeat his arguments, and my contradictions. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
- Skirmishes of this sort passed perpetually during the little campaign--tedious to relate, and similar in result. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- We had a tedious ride of about five hours, in the sun, across the Valley of Lebanon. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- This was very tedious and expensive work. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- With Johnston and him combined, a long, tedious, and expensive campaign, consuming most of the summer, might become necessary. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
- Finally I said: It is a tedious process. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- The work of preparation was tedious, because supplies, to load the wagons for the march, had to be brought from a long distance. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
- Mine has been a tale of horrors; I have reached their _acme_, and what I must now relate can but be tedious to you. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
- It has been the practice of recent writers to decry the philosophical discussion of the medi?val schoolmen as tedious and futile. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- She continued this as we wound our tedious way through the maze of subterranean passages and chambers. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
- It was a night's journey in those coach times, but we had the mail to ourselves and did not find the night very tedious. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- It is too tedious. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- Contrast with that the tedious unfolding of a rolled manuscript. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- After reaching shore, or Shell Island, the labor of getting to Corpus Christi was slow and tedious. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
- The breakers were sometimes high, so that the landing was tedious. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
- Becky was very respectable and orderly at first, but the life of humdrum virtue grew utterly tedious to her before long. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- For him no method of copying was sufficiently tedious and no rare book sufficiently inaccessible. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Ginevra was long in coming: tedious seemed her loitering. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- Perhaps the less I say of these sick experiences, the less tedious and the more intelligible I shall be. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- But the Scythians had no cities, and they evaded a battle, and the war degenerated into a tedious and hopeless pursuit of more mobile enemies. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- After battling for many tedious minutes with the precipice, the same scene presented itself to me, which had wrapt him in extatic wonder. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- There were no means of carrying its results even to sympathetic men abroad except by tedious letter-writing. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- But the process was a tedious and costly one and the articles produced were beyond the limits of the poor man's purse. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- And in many offices the writing of names is still a slow, tedious, drudging task--as the workers in those offices will testify. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- The transmission of geographical fact again must have been almost incredibly tedious. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Not to be tedious, they had many other beliefs of a similar kind. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- The old methods were painfully slow and tedious. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- His education would generally in this way be more effectual, and always less tedious and expensive. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
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