Shortlists for job interviews, election ballot papers, lists of conference speakers and attendees: all tend to be drawn up alphabetically, and their recipients lose interest as they plough through them.

求职面试、选举投票、会议发言或参加会议等诸多名单，也是表顺序排序，当人们费劲地向下查看时，兴趣随之索然。

But what had amused me then turned septic on the air now.

但是当时我觉得好玩的晚上变得索然无味了。

First of all, they may have come to this planet of ours thousands or millions of years ago, and found our then prevailing primitive state completely uninteresting to their own advanced knowledge.

首先，他们能在几千年前或几百年前已来过我们地球，并且发现我们地球汉时普遍存在着的原始状态同他们的先进的知识相比是索然无味的。

Mr. Crouch, however, looked quite uninterested, almost bored.

而克劳奇先生则是副兴味索然的样子，简直以说是有些厌烦。

There are few men to whom it is the most important thing in the world, and they are not very interesting ones; even women, with whom the subject is of paramount interest, have a contempt for them.

尽管也有很少数男人把爱情当作世界上的头等大事，但这些人常常是些索然寡味的人；即便对爱情感到无限兴趣的女人，对这类男子也不太看得起。

He was on one side of her mother. She knew how little such a situation would give pleasure to either, or make either appear to advantage.

她觉得这无论是对于达西，对于她亲，是兴味索然，两不方便。

The cat lifts its head to find out what all the commotion is about, then concludes that all this is sensationally uninteresting and snuggles back into Parvaneh's lap. Or rather, her belly.

猫抬起头想听听这边叽叽喳喳在吵什么，但好像最终觉得这索然无味，又缩回帕尔瓦娜的膝盖上。准确地说，又缩回到她的肚子上。

Even Giammattei's victory party was underwhelming.

就连贾马太的庆功会索然无味。

Jasper sat motionlessly at the desk in the corner, his eyes watching the news with no glimmer of interest.

贾斯帕动不动地坐在角落里的桌子旁，他正兴趣索然地看着新闻。

If you concentrate on books somebody tells you you " ought" to read, you probably won't have fun.

假如你读的是别人认为“该”读的书，你很有能觉得索然无味。

" Whatever you like, " said Sirius indifferently, " The curtains in there are full of Doxys, too."

“随便吧。”小天狼星兴味索然地说。“还有，那儿的窗帘里是狐猸子。”

When the spoilsport ruins the fun, he always does so by refusing to play by the rules.

有些扫兴的人会使游戏变得索然无味、毫无乐趣言，往往是因为不遵循游戏规则。

It was obvious that he had no social gifts, but these a man can do without; he had no eccentricity even, to take him out of the common run; he was just a good, dull, honest, plain man.

很清楚，他点儿也没有社交的本领，但这也不定人人要有的。他甚至没有什么奇行怪癖，使他免于平凡庸俗之嫌。他只不过是个忠厚老实、索然无味的普通人。

" Probably that you're going to be eaten by a giant marshmallow or something, " said Harry, turning the pages of The Dream Oracle without interest.

“那大概意味着你要被颗巨大的软糖吃掉。”哈利兴味索然地翻看着《解梦指南》说道。

How does it work? The things that you see? I stared out the side window, and my voice sounded bored. Edward said it wasn't definite… that things change?

“这是怎么做到的？你是怎么看见事物的呢？”我看向另侧的窗外，我的声音听起来兴趣索然。“爱德华说过这不是很准确… … 事情会改变吗？”

It made the Marseilles that I knew, gesticulating and sunny, with its comfortable hotels and its restaurants crowded with the well-to-do, tame and commonplace.

相形之下，我所了解的马赛——人群杂沓、阳光灿烂，到处是舒适的旅馆和挤满了有钱人的餐馆——简直变得平淡无奇、索然寡味了。

It was a hurried breakfast with no taste in it.

那顿早餐匆匆忙忙，索然无味。

Every bite of my mother's cooking turned to powder in my mouth.

每口亲做的饭菜在我嘴里变得索然无味。

It may turn out to be a wooden experience.

这能会变成种索然无味的经历。

Another simply claimed cruelty because her husband made her life dull.

另个人只是声称自己很残忍，因为她的丈夫让她的生活变得索然无味。