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小词详解 | humdrum
humdrum 英 [ˈhʌmdrʌm] 美 [ˈhʌmdrʌm]
These days, it is the humdrum diet of benign data that prompts a yawn.
而最近,没完没了的利好数据同样令人觉得乏味。
——《经济学人》Tertius’s tragedy is that he never reconciles himself to his humdrum reality.
特蒂斯的悲剧在于,他永远未能同自己生活中的乏味现实和解。
——《纽约时报》
[形容词] 缺乏刺激或变化;单调乏味令人厌烦的
在那个岗位干了十年之后,她觉得腻了,需要换换工作。其工作大部分都相当单调。
After ten years in the job, she felt stale and needed a change. Most of her work was fairly humdrum.她整天做着单调乏味的工作但收入颇丰的律师丈夫对权力的欲望永远也不会得到满足。
Her lawyer husband, trapped in a humdrum but well-paid job, will ever manage to slake his lust for power.
She was glad to be out of the flat, because already she felt that it was a narrow, humdrum place, and that interest and joy lay elsewhere.
离开公寓到外面走走,使她心情舒畅,因为她已经感到那个家狭隘单调,毫无趣味和欢乐可言。
mundane: very ordinary and therefore not interesting dreary: depressingly dull and bleak or repetitive tedious: too long, slow, or dull; tiresome or monotonous