tedium是什么意思

音标:英 [ˈti:diəm]美 [ˈtidiəm]

单调乏味, 沉闷

n the feeling of being bored by something tedious
n dullness owing to length or slowness

tedium的用法和例句：

1. I welcome the peace of death as a reprieve from this tedium.

我宁愿视死亡的宁静为这沉闷的缓刑

2. Well, motherhood hasn't exactly been the tedium I was promised.

当母亲不像我当初想的那样枯燥乏味

3. To do something free from the tedium and responsibility of court life.

做这些远离乏味单调且责任沉重的 宫廷生活的事

4. You're free to resume your life of tedium and petty deception.

请继续过回你单调乏味的行骗生活吧

5. More tedium to follow at this damn dinner tomorrow, no doubt.

嗯，可怜的小羊羔 啊，天哪 毫无疑问，明天的晚宴还有更多闷死人的东西

6. Such as archaeologists make good administrators because they enjoy tedium.

比如考古学家是很好的管理者是因为他们喜欢乏味的事情

7. Must be a new cartel fad to jazz up the tedium of beheadings.

一定是贩毒集团的新花样 给单调的砍头桥段添些乐子

8. Long stretches of tedium interrupted by seconds of sheer terror.

不是那种冗长乏味 然后突然很恐怖的样子

9. I'd prefer if you spared me the tedium of any last words, but if you are so inclined, now would be the time.

这些冗长乏味的遗言 最好不要说给我听了 但是如果你真的想说 就趁现在快说吧

10. Uh, it's like melancholy, um, sadness born out of tedium or boredom.

跟忧郁差不多 因为沉闷或厌烦而忧伤