Tedium itself can be a useful spur to inspiration.

乏味本身就是一种有用的灵感刺激。

Most workers don't expect their seasonal event to turn into a Bacchanal; they are just hoping to avoid tedium.

大多数工人并不指望他们的年会变成狂欢；他们只希望避免乏味。

There's less tedium and more action.

少了乏味，多了行动。

They are amongst the unsung heroes of this war, and everything possible to lighten their tedium and buoy up their morale should be done.

彼辈亦属此次战争中无名英雄之列。凡足减轻其烦闷，振奋其精神之一切可能措施均应一一采取。

The road which leads one man straight to enjoyment leads another to tedium.

将一个人直接引向享受的道路， 会将另一个人引向乏味。

My wife says I have a high tolerance for tedium.

我妻子说我对的容忍度很高。

Happiness and sorrow, despair and hope were there, but all encompassed by the heavy tedium of prosaic sameness.

幸福和悲伤， 绝望和希望都那里，但都被平淡无奇的千篇一律所包围。

For the tedium of learning a foreign language mingled gall into the sweetness of those Grecian myths.

因为习外语的乏味与希腊神话的甜蜜交织一起。

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，他们的简短跨度禁止他们全身心投入如此深奥的研究， 用便士纸来消遣这种乏味的方式。

Although it’s early days, for those of us who struggle to overcome the tedium of exercise, a new solution could be coming.

虽然现还为时过早， 但对于我们这些努力克服锻炼乏味的人来说， 一个新的解决方案可能会出现。

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，教室里乏味的气氛令他禁不住更加想念那位专注的小者，他的思绪早已离开眼前这些生——脑海里一片空白。

Gray is the color of contemplation; it makes us notice things we might not have paid attention to before, standing out amidst the tedium.

灰色是沉思的颜色；它让我们注意到以前可能没有注意到的事情，乏味中脱颖而出。

Why? To avoid the tedium of dining tete-a-tete, to give their servants a rest, because there was no reason to refuse, because they were " owed" a dinner.

为什么这样做？是为了避免吃饭时是夫妻对坐的厌烦，为了让仆人休息半天，还是因为没有理由谢绝，因为该着吃别人一顿饭？谁也说不清。

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的乏味，她就家翻箱倒柜，摆弄她外公的旧海图和其它杂物，嘴里哼着乡里人星期六晚上唱的民谣。

Making three meals a day, especially if your diners included small children, was tedium defined-an endless loop of eggs and beans and eggs and toast and beans and toast and eggs.

准备一日三餐，尤其是当你还要给小孩子做饭的时候，就绝对是枯燥无味的——做饭就是鸡蛋、豆子、鸡蛋、吐司、豆子、吐司、鸡蛋的无限循环。

IDC, another research firm, puts the market for software that automates unrewarding office tedium at $20bn a year, even less than is being spent on robots of the physical variety.

另一家研究公司 IDC 估计， 用于自动化乏味办公室工作的软件市场每年价值 200 亿美元，甚至低于用于实体机器人的支出。

There are in work all grades, from mere relief of tedium up to the profoundest delights, according to the nature of the work and the abilities of the worker.

工作给人的愉快的程度多种多样，从仅仅是消烦解闷到产生巨大的快乐，这会随工作的性质和工作者的能力而异。

The remainder of the day was passed in the same dreadful tedium and suspense. I laid the table for dinner, while Northmour and Clara prepared the meal together in the kitchen.

这一天剩下的时间是同样可怕的沉闷和悬念中度过的。我为晚饭摆好餐桌，诺斯摩和克拉拉厨房里一起准备饭菜。

As the omnibus contained only one other passenger, a sleepy old lady, Amy pocketed her veil and beguiled the tedium of the way by trying to find out where all her money had gone to.

鉴于这公共马车上另外只有一名乘客，那是个昏昏欲睡的老太太，艾米便把面纱塞进口袋，开始计算她的开支情况，以消除旅途的沉闷。

They had brought over the fritter and drink stands from the Street of the Turks and the people were in good spirits as they bore the tedium of waiting and the scorching sun.

他们从土耳其人街上拿来了油条和饮料摊，人们忍受了漫长的等待和烈日，精神很好。