This pleasure is not confined to learning from textbooks, which are too often tedious.

这种乐趣不会局限于学习那些通常过于乏味教科书。

In those last moments, it occurred to her in addition to being boring, life could also be very cruel.

在最后时刻，她意识到生活不仅仅是乏味，也可以很残酷。

Some, like its drab online presence and recent uninventiveness, which Mr Simons is to tackle, are being reversed.

有些东西，比如其乏味网络形象，以及西蒙斯将要解决近期缺乏创造力问题，正在反向发展。

Some other words that you might be using with dull adjectives are words like so, such and really.

其他一些你可能会和乏味形容词一起使用词包括“so”，“such”和“really”。

This type of work is often seen as boring.

【see】这种工作常常被认为是乏味。

And you can train yourself to stop using really dull and boring adjectives just by avoiding one little word very.

你可以通过不使用“very”这个词，来训练自己停止使用那些乏味形容词。

We will try to relieve the monotony of your visit here.

我们将尽力减轻您访问这里乏味。

Margaret yearned after that old house, and the placid tranquillity of that old well-ordered, monotonous life.

玛格丽特渴望那栋老房子，渴望那种井井有条、乏味古老生活带来宁静。

I've got Father to look after now, and we can't live in such a hum-drum place as this.

我现在有父亲要照顾， 我们不能住在这种乏味地方。

Here and there you will find men whose imagination raises them above the humdrum of mankind.

在这里和那里， 你会发现人们想象力使他们超越了人类乏味。

In any case he would have extricated himself well and advantageously from a situation which Mathilde was beginning to find monotonous.

无论如何，他本可以很好地、有利地摆脱玛蒂尔德开始觉得乏味处境。

And entrepreneurial immigrants have opened successful shops and popular ethnic restaurants, literally adding spice to the otherwise pretty drab local cuisine.

富有创业精神移民开设了成功商店和受欢迎民族餐厅，为原本乏味当地美食增添了情趣。

Others, whose briefer span forbade their devoting themselves to studies so abstruse, beguiled the little tedium of the way with penny-papers.

其他人，他们简短跨度禁止他们全身心投入如此深奥研究， 用便士纸来消遣这种乏味方式。

I mean when you have one life and how do you when you're in a groove, how do you change that? - Yes.

我意思是，当你只有一次生命时，当你处于乏味状态时，你如何改变它？- 是。

But the tedium of his office reminded him more strongly of the willing scholar, and his thoughts were rambling from his pupils-it was plain.

但是，教室里乏味气氛令他禁不住更加想念那位专注小学者，他思绪早已离开眼前这些学生——脑海里一片空白。

Binns droned on and on while they scribbled down names and dates, and got Emeric the Evil and Uric the Oddball mixed up.

上课时宾斯教授用乏味声音不停地讲，学生们则潦潦草草地记下人名和日期，把恶人墨瑞克和怪人尤里克也搞混了。

He looked with disgust on the monotony of a Convent, and breathed a sigh towards that world from which He was for ever separated.

他厌恶地看着修道院乏味， 对那个与他永远分离世界叹了口气。

His story is a testament to the power of dreams, a reminder that even amidst the humdrum of daily life, we can reach for the stars.

他故事证明了梦想力量，提醒我们即使在乏味日常生活中，我们也可以摘星。

But I do wonder, what happens when the high of a new romance wears off and is replaced by the day to day monotony of real life?

但我确实想知道，当一段新恋情高潮消退，取而代之是现实生活中日复一日乏味时，会发生什么？

To relieve the tedium of this untimely day she would overhaul the cupboards containing her grandfather's old charts and other rubbish, humming Saturday-night ballads of the country people the while.

为了减少这个讨厌日子乏味，她就在家翻箱倒柜，摆弄她外公旧海图和其它杂物，嘴里哼着乡里人星期六晚上唱民谣。