Monotony
[mə'nɒt(ə)nɪ] or [mə'nɑtəni]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) constancy of tone or pitch or inflection.
(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'.
塞德里克錄入--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A frequent recurrence of the same tone or sound, producing a dull uniformity; absence of variety, as in speaking or singing.
(n.) Any irksome sameness, or want of variety.
杰弗里校對
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Uniformity, sameness, want of variety.
校對:拉弗尔斯
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Sameness, unvaryingness, tedium
ANT:Variation, relief, diversion
錄入:诺顿
例句/造句/用法:
- The monotony was unbroken. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- Often as not they disguise it under heroic phrases and still louder affirmation, just as most of us hide our cowardly submission to monotony under some word like duty, loyalty, conscience. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- It seemed like a rising above the dreariness of actuality, the monotony of contingencies. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- To me the only death is monotony. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- Monotony till midnight. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The Bank offered no violence to the wholesome monotony of the town. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- I don't know; but I feel monotony and death to be almost the same. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- The delicious monotony of life in our calm seclusion flowed on with me, like a smooth stream with a swimmer who glides down the current. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Why, it was but now that you were dwelling in the advantages of a monotony of two. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- I always say to Ellen: Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- Anything to vary this detestable monotony. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- The monotony of his occupation soothed him, and was in itself a pleasure. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- No it is not,' said Mrs Wilfer, with the same impressive monotony. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- He also relieved the monotony of office-work by fitting up the battery circuits to play jokes on his fellow-operators, and to deal with the vermin that infested the premises. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Watch the crowds in front of a bulletin board, finding a vicarious excitement and an abstract relief from the monotony of their own lives. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
錄入:莉娜