Yet when it comes to more humdrum information technology (IT), the country lags behind other advanced economies- nowhere more so than in cyber-security.

然而在信息技术（IT）方面，日本落后于其他发达经济体，在网络安全方面更是如此。

If a job is sufficiently humdrum, camaraderie among colleagues can be the main draw.

如工作已经足够乏味，那么同事之间的情谊可能是工作的主要吸引力。

In both writing and sleeping, we learn to be physically still at the same time we are encouraging our minds to unlock from the humdrum rational thinking of our daytime lives.

睡眠与写作的相似之处在于，我们都要学会让身体平静的同时，尽量让头脑从日常生活单调的理性思考中解脱出来。

Genome Biology, BMC's flagship journal, which accepts just one paper in ten, passes 40% of the sound but humdrum sort it spurns to its less prestigious sister publications with reviews attached, says Matthew Cockerill, the group's managing director.

BMC(生物医学期刊出版中心)的重点期刊《基因生物学》，文章接收率只有10%，该期刊 40%的比较不错但却单调的被拒文章会转投给比它名气稍小的子期刊，这些文章都附有评审报告，出版中心的总经理马修•克里尔到。

But in the ordinary humdrum case, here I am, my body.

但在般情况下 这里有我的肉体。

Analysts credit him with spotting the huge power shortfall that was opening up in developing countries, and positioning Aggreko to help fill the gap—while continuing with its more humdrum business contracts in Europe and America.

分析确信他在正在开放的发展中国发现巨大的电力短缺问题，于是将亚力克公司定位于弥补这个短缺——并且继续在欧洲和美洲争取更多的商业合同。

Compounds of boron feature in washing powders and cleaning products (" borax" ), antiseptics and water softeners, and also as additives in fibreglass, but such roles are humdrum.

硼化合物用在洗衣粉和清洁产品(“硼砂”)、防腐剂和水软化剂中，也可作为添加剂的玻璃纤维，但这些作用是单调的。

Sophie saw that the philosopher was right. Grownups took the world for granted. They had let themselves be lulled into the enchanted sleep of their humdrum existence once and for all.

“苏菲终于明白哲学没错。大人们总是将这个世界视为理所当然的存在，并且就此任自己陷入柴米油盐的生活中而浑然不觉。

A paper by Madeleine Rauch of the University of Cambridge looks at the disconnect experienced by UN peacekeepers between the abstract ideals of their work and the humdrum reality of it.

剑桥大学的玛德琳·劳赫的论文研究了联合国维和人员体验到的工作的抽象理想和单调的现实之间的脱节。

Basking in the joy of knowing someone with a name as redolent of human history as Archimedes got me through at least three more days of homebound humdrum.

我沉浸在认识个有着与阿基米德样令人联想起人类历史的名字的人的喜悦中，这让我至少又熬过了3天乏味的回之旅。

Well, it was quite interesting. I mean, the first half of the speech was very humdrum. It was very focused on domestic politics.

内容值关注。演讲的前半部分非常无聊。主要聚焦国内政治。

But like a hermit crab encountering a humdrum shell, Laidre says he's gonna leave that one alone.

但是就像遇到无趣螺壳的寄居蟹样，莱德瑞他打算把这个研究题目放在边。

The missing stuff, the missing thing is there in all sorts of familiar humdrum ways as well.

各种各样的缺失皆是如此 在以如此熟悉的单调套路进行着。

But Larkin is more than just the unofficial laureate of humdrum Englishness.

但拉金不仅仅是单调英语的非官方获奖者。

And everyday life is normally pretty humdrum.

日常生活通常相当平淡无奇。

A call that quickly breaks the humdrum of suburban life.

个电话迅速打破了郊区生活的单调。

'The practical husbands and wives who take things philosophically are very humdrum, are they not?

‘从哲学的角度看待事情的务实的丈夫和妻子是非常单调的， 不是吗？

His catalogue contains no " oil magnates" or " steel kings" or " railroad manipulators" ; nearly all the industrial giants of ante-bellum times — as distinguished from the socially prominent whose wealth was inherited — had heaped together their accumulations in humdrum trade.

他的目录中没有“石油大亨”或“钢铁大王”或“铁路操纵者”；战前时代的几乎所有工业巨头——区别于财富继承的社会显赫人物——都在单调的贸易中积累了财富。

But he had found that humdrum world in a terribly dynamic condition, in which even badinage and lyrism had turned explosive; and the first day of this visit had become the most fatal epoch of his life.

但他发现那个单调的世界处于种可怕的动态状态，在这种状态下，甚至连恶作剧和抒情诗都变爆炸性的；这次访问的第天就成了他生中最致命的时刻。

We had entered a theater, but when you leave the theater, even the theater of the mind, It's hard to journey back to the Mondays and the humdrums as we step out here, back outside.

我们走进了个剧院， 但当你离开剧院， 甚至是心灵的剧院时，当我们走出去， 回到外面，很难再回到那些周和枯燥的日子里。