The point is this was a lot of mind numbingly, boring dull grunt work, having to go through a spreadsheet.

关键是，这是一项繁琐乏味的工作，必须。

It's distant, difficult to reach, and above all else extremely huge and numbingly empty.

那儿很遥远，很难到达，最重的是，它非常巨大，空旷得令人麻木。