tedious

英 [ˈtiːdiəs]

美 [ˈtiːdiəs]

adj.  冗长的; 啰唆的; 单调乏味的; 令人厌烦的

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牛津词典

adj.

• 冗长的；啰唆的；单调乏味的；令人厌烦的
  lasting or taking too long and not interesting
  1. The journey soon became tedious.
     那次旅行不久就变得乏味起来。
  2. We had to listen to the tedious details of his operation.
     我们不得不听他唠叨他那次行动繁琐的细节。

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 枯燥的;乏味的;令人生厌的
  If you describe something such as a job, task, or situation astedious, you mean it is boring and rather frustrating.
  1. Such lists are long and tedious to read.
     这种表单读起来冗长乏味。
  2. ...the tedious business of line-by-line programming.
     枯燥乏味的逐行编程工作

双语例句

• If tedious tasks could be eradicated, the world would be a much better place.
  如果可以消灭那些单调乏味的工作，世界将会变得更加美好。
• We are tired of this tedious speech.
  我们厌倦了这个冗长的演讲。
• Carlson, who was arthritic, found this to be a painful and tedious process.
  卡尔森，谁是关节炎，发现这是一个痛苦和冗长的过程。
• The band's approach tends to be crushingly tedious.
  该乐队的演奏方式往往过于单调乏味。
• Since has run into you, former days already tedious life, also has increased the innumerable sleepless nights.
  自从遇到了你，往日早已繁琐的生活，又增添了无数个不眠之夜。
• This part library reduces product design to standard component tedious and repeated work in the design.
  该零件库减少了产品设计中对于标准件设计中繁琐且重复性的工作。
• Using only HTML as input can be boring and tedious for some message board applications.
  一些留言簿程序仅能使用HTML做为输入，因此显得很无聊和沉闷。
• But developers and designers often find it tedious to work with CSS.
  但开发人员和设计人员常常发现CSS使用起来很单调乏味。
• This can make the implementation of programs tedious and error prone.
  这可能造成程序的实现冗长乏味而且容易出错。
• Needless to say, this is a tedious process.
  不用说，这将是一个繁琐的过程。