We can talk about a monotonous job, a monotonous speech, a monotonous meeting, a monotonous voice, and so on.

我们可以说单工作、单演讲、单会议、单声音。

Now, though, they were drab and brown.

但现在，它们是单棕色。

The same old favorites recur year in year out with monotonous regularity.

相同决心以单规律年复一年地出现。

It's just all one wall of sound.

这就是很单声音。

Harry sank into a stupor as Wood droned on and on.

伍德单声音在那里讲啊讲啊，哈利入了恍惚状态。

The world still pursued its monotonous way.

这个世界仍旧在以它单方式运转着。

It is also a great way to break the monotony of the day.

这也是打破单一天好方法。

That would be more monotonous speech.

那将是更单演讲。

It was tedious gathering the firewood.

拣干柴是个单儿。

The key to keeping salads from getting boring is switching them up.

要避免色拉太单关键就是变换组合。

Drab means dull and colourless in appearance.

“单”是指外表黯淡、没有色彩。

The same old favourites recur year in year out with monotonous regularity.

相同决心以单规律年复一年地出现。

" Winky talked my father into it, " said Crouch, still in the same monotonous voice.

“闪闪说服了我父亲，”小克劳依旧用那单声音说。

But Google recently demonstrated AI for more mundane tasks.

但是最近谷歌证明了人工智能可以做更单工作。

" Thanks, " said Harry, in a flat, distant voice.

“谢谢。”哈利用一种单、飘飘忽忽声音说。

And the monosyllabic choice of words, capture the monotonous doom and dread he feels.

这些单音节词汇表达了他所感受到单厄运和恐惧。

After five minutes of this exercise the little prince grew tired of the game's monotony.

这样做了五分钟之后，小王子对这种单把戏有点厌倦了。

But with prose fiction, all you have is static symbols on a contrasting background.

但是对于单小说来说，你所拥有只是一些在对比鲜明背景之上静止符号。

We open to shades of gray and beige and what must be the world's dullest office.

我们面对着灰色和米色阴影，还有世界上最单办公室。

Vermeer's treatment of light and shadow, or chiaroscuro, uses a dark, flat background to further spotlight her three-dimensionality.

维梅尔利用明暗对照法，让黑暗单背景呈现她立体感。