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，也是按字母表顺序排序，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晚上变得索然无了。

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着原始状态同他们先进知识相比是索然无。

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

而克劳奇先生则是副兴索然样子，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头等大事，但这些人常常是一些索然人；即便对爱情感到无限兴趣女人，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，对于她母亲，都是兴索然，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都吵什么，但好像最终觉得这一切都索然无，又缩回帕尔瓦娜膝盖上。准确地说，又缩回到她肚子上。

Even Giammattei's victory party was underwhelming.

就连贾马太庆功会都索然无。

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

贾斯帕一动不动地坐角落里桌子旁，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.

假如你读是别人认为“该”读书，你很有能觉得索然无。

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

“随便吧。”小天狼星兴索然地说。“还有，那儿窗帘里都是狐猸子。”

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

有些扫兴人会使游戏变得索然无、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，他一点儿也没有社交本领，但这也不一定人人都要有。他甚至没有什么奇行怪癖，使他免于平凡庸俗之嫌。他只不过是一个忠厚老实、索然无普通人。

" 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.

“那大概意着你要被一颗巨大软糖吃掉。”哈利兴索然地翻看着《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？你是怎么看见事物呢？”我看向另一侧窗外，我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，我所了解马赛——人群杂沓、阳光灿烂，到处是舒适旅馆和挤满了有钱人餐馆——简直变得平淡无奇、索然了。

It was a hurried breakfast with no taste in it.

那顿早餐匆匆忙忙，索然无。

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

每一口母亲做饭菜我嘴里都变得索然无。

It may turn out to be a wooden experience.

这能会变成一种索然无经历。

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

另一个人只是声称自己很残忍，因为她丈夫让她生活变得索然无。