英语释义

• tediously repetitious or lacking in variety;

  "a humdrum existence; all work and no play"

  "nothing is so monotonous as the sea"

• not challenging; dull and lacking excitement;

  "an unglamorous job greasing engines"

片语

humdrum chores乏味的日常杂物

prosiness单调，平凡；散文体

monotonousness单调

humdrum job单调的工作

Humdrum School中所谓的写实推理

humdrum a单调的

flatad （尤指贴着另一表面）平直地；断然地；水平地；直接地，完全地

A Humdrum Existence单调生活

humdrum m单调无聊的

blank(Blank)人名；(法)布朗克；(英、德、西、俄、罗、捷、瑞典、芬)布兰克

monotonous单调的，无抑扬顿挫的；无变化的

boring鉆孔

humdrum video无聊的片段

Visual humdrum视单调

Sounds Humdrum听起来十分单调

英汉例句

• 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。

• 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。

• the missing stuff,the missing thing is there in all sorts of familiar humdrum ways as well.

  各种各样的缺失,皆是如此,在以如此熟悉的单调套路进行着

• 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。

• it is the gentle yet penetrating lucidity of mr eugenides’s writing that makes a slightly humdrum plot into so involving a novel.

  奥金尼德斯的作品温和而始终明朗，使得小说中涉及的阴谋稍嫌单调无聊。

• humdrum television thrived in a world of scarcity when there was little to watch.

  这是由于，在电视节目匮乏的年代，平庸的节目不愁没人看。

• plenty of physicists still look to the skies in search for clues to the nature of what is now believed to be as humdrum a cosmic occurrence as stars and planets.

  许多物理学家依然仰望天空搜寻线索，即如今所认为的如同恒星和行星一般平淡无奇的宇宙事件本质的线索。

• so youtube will probably have to pay top dollar for films, limiting its appeal and turning a once subversive force into a humdrum distributor.

  因此，youtube很可能要为买进电影花最高的价钱。这就使其吸引力打了折扣，使它从以前的一股颠覆力量变成了现在的一个无聊的经销商。

• 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。

• these activities seem to be far more profitable than the humdrum business of managing payments and channelling savings towards investment.

  这些活动似乎远远比乏味的薪酬管理和引导储蓄进入投资领域更为有利可图。

• the governor’s complaints against 「adversaries」 and 「enemies」 were more humdrum

  而佩林州长对于「对手」和「敌人」的抱怨则更为乏味

• 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。

• 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。

• this vignette is all too familiar to many software developers – even humdrum –but from the overall team perspective, there are several interesting things happening here.

  这个小插曲对于许多软件开发人员来说实在太熟悉不过了——甚至有点单调——但是从整个团队的角度看，其中发生了几件非常有趣的事情。

• 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。

• but in the ordinary humdrum case,here i am,my body.

  但在最平常的情况下，我就是我的身体。

• while repetition in the humdrum of daily life can at times be a little boring – capturing it in your photography can create an image with real impact.

  重复对于单调的日常生活是令人烦躁的，但在摄影中影响甚巨。

• 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。

• after all, take a more familiar humdrum example.

  举个更熟悉的乏味的例子。

相似词

tedious沉闷的；冗长乏味的

monotonous单调的，无抑扬顿挫的；无变化的

commonplace平凡的，普通的；平庸的，陈腐的

literal文字的；逐字的；无夸张的

deadlyad 非常；如死一般地

boredom厌倦；令人厌烦的事物

practical实际的；实用性的

tiresome烦人的，无聊的；令人讨厌的