Humdrum
['hʌmdrʌm]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) tediously repetitious or lacking in variety; 'a humdrum existence; all work and no play'; 'nothing is so monotonous as the sea' .
整理:理查德--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Monotonous; dull; commonplace.
(n.) A dull fellow; a bore.
(n.) Monotonous and tedious routine.
(n.) A low cart with three wheels, drawn by one horse.
尤金伲亚整理
同義詞及近義詞：
a. Dull, prosy, dronish, stupid, wearisome, tiresome.
黛博拉校對
解釋/意思:
adj. dull: droning: monotonous: commonplace.—n. a stupid fellow: monotony tedious talk.
欧内斯特整理
例句/造句/用法:
- Your Wellington is the most humdrum of commonplace martinets, whose slow, mechanical movements are further cramped by an ignorant home government. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- It's rather jog-trotty and humdrum. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- 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·薩克雷. 名利場.
- For some time past it is Humdrum Hall no longer. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Let us return to Humdrum Hall. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum routine of everyday life. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
整理:塞尔瓦托