This pleasure is not confined to learning from textbooks, which are too often tedious.

这种乐趣不会局限于学习那些通常过于教科书。

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，她就在家翻箱倒柜，摆弄她外公旧海图和其它杂物，嘴里哼着乡里人星期六晚上唱民谣。

I mean when you have one life and how do you when you're in a groove, how do you change that? - Yes.

我意思是，当你只有一次生命时，当你处于状态时，你如何改变它？- 是。

Binns droned on and on while they scribbled down names and dates, and got Emeric the Evil and Uric the Oddball mixed up.

上课时宾斯教授用声音不停地讲，学生们则潦潦草草地记下人名和日期，把恶人墨瑞克和怪人尤里克也搞混了。

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，教室里气氛令他禁不住更想念那位专注小学者，他思绪早已离开眼前这些学生——脑海里一片空白。

And you can train yourself to stop using really dull and boring adjectives just by avoiding one little word very.

你可以通过不再使用“very”这个词，来训练自己停止使用那些形容词。

In those last moments, it occurred to her in addition to being boring, life could also be very cruel.

在最后时刻，她意识到生活不仅仅是，也可以很残酷。

Some, like its drab online presence and recent uninventiveness, which Mr Simons is to tackle, are being reversed.

有些东西，比如其网络形象，以及西蒙斯将要解决近期缺创造力问题，正在反向发展。

Some other words that you might be using with dull adjectives are words like so, such and really.

其他一些你可能会和形容词一起使用词包括“so”，“such”和“really”。

Small gangs of often young men would form, and one of the main ways they would blow off steam, they would relax and escape from the monotony of their daily working lives, would be to fight each other.

一些由年轻人组成帮派会形成，他们释放压力、放松并逃离日常工作中生活主要方式就是互相打架。

The actual fighting and trying to get people out of caves and defensive positions, if you weren't actively involved in the kind of combat Sledge was just talking about, was a kind of horrific and extremely dangerous tediousness.

实际战斗中， 试图将人们从洞穴和防御阵地中驱赶出来，若非亲身参与如斯莱奇刚才所描述那种战斗，是无法体会到那种恐怖且极度危险。

The door of the tower was shut. It was something more than the freakishness which is engendered by a sickening monotony that had led Lady Constantine thus far, and hence she made no ado about admitting herself.

塔门关上了。君士坦丁夫人之所以走到这一步，不仅仅是因为令人作呕所产生反常，因此她毫不费力地承认了自己。

The sleep is so that the brain can dream and stay fine-tuned and stay fully adapted and stay fully enriched in all the corners of his mind without just the boring part of our day, right?

睡眠作用在于让大脑得以做梦， 从而保持其精细节、完全适应， 并在心灵每个角落都得到充分丰富， 而不仅仅局限于我们日常中部分，对吧？

And so that's part of the reason why I switched to being a developer, because I just saw how much fun it was that people could just build things versus doing like monotonous, tedious things.

因此，这也是我转行成为开发者部分原因，因为我看到人们能够创造事物是多么有趣，相比之下，做那些工作就显得索然无了。

She got a seven on IELTS speaking and we were both surprised, like her and I. So she probably got a nine for pronunciation because she was being herself and there was no monotone.

她在雅思口语考试中得了七分， 我们俩都感到惊讶，就像她和我一样。 因此，她发音可能得了九分， 因为她展现是真实自我， 没有表达。

Most classes are less than 60 minutes long and they come with hands-on projects so you could take on a creative challenge to break up the monotony of spending every day indoors.

大多数课程时长不到60分钟，并且配有动手项目，你可以通过创意挑战来打破每天待在室内。

Falck is a young civil servant when we meet him, so frustrated by the bureaucracy and drudgery of his job that he gives it up to become a journalist and author.

我们初识阿尔维德·法尔克时， 他是一名年轻公务员，因对官僚体制和工作中感到极度沮丧， 决定辞职成为一名记者和作家。

But I do wonder, what happens when the high of a new romance wears off and is replaced by the day to day monotony of real life?

但我确实想知道，当一段新恋情高潮消退，取而代之是现实生活中日复一日时，会发生什么？

What may sound like a recipe for tedium turns into something genuinely captivating thanks to the brothers' enthusiasm and sincerity and their surprisingly extraordinary cinematography skills.

原本可能显得拍摄过程，却因兄弟俩热情与真诚，以及他们出人意料高超摄影技艺，转而成为了一场真正扣人心弦视觉盛宴。

Perhaps fearing a dull old age, he later abandoned his second wife days after a vast party to mark their golden wedding.

或许是为了避免晚年生活，他在一场盛大派对庆祝完与第二任妻金婚纪念日后，便毅然决然地离开了她。