tedious

英 [ˈtiːdiəs]

美 [ˈtiːdiəs]

adj.  冗长的; 啰唆的; 单调乏味的; 令人厌烦的

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Collins.1 / BNC.8426 / COCA.10501

牛津词典

adj.

• 冗长的；啰唆的；单调乏味的；令人厌烦的
  lasting or taking too long and not interesting
  1. The journey soon became tedious.
     那次旅行不久就变得乏味起来。
  2. We had to listen to the tedious details of his operation.
     我们不得不听他唠叨他那次行动繁琐的细节。

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 枯燥的;乏味的;令人生厌的
  If you describe something such as a job, task, or situation astedious, you mean it is boring and rather frustrating.
  1. Such lists are long and tedious to read.
     这种表单读起来冗长乏味。
  2. ...the tedious business of line-by-line programming.
     枯燥乏味的逐行编程工作

双语例句

• Using only HTML as input can be boring and tedious for some message board applications.
  一些留言簿程序仅能使用HTML做为输入，因此显得很无聊和沉闷。
• The job was so tedious and tiring that ebby decided to chuck it up.
  那活儿非常枯燥累人，艾比决定不干了。
• Refactoring is a more tedious procedure than generating new test code from scratch.
  重构会是一个比从头生成新测试代码更乏味的过程。
• But the waiting can be tedious.
  但等待过程可能是冗长乏味的。
• Adding error-handling code to your program can be annoying, tedious, and time-consuming.
  向程序中添加错误处理代码可能会是恼人、乏味、耗时的差事。
• He was not used to the tedious of life in a small country town.
  他不适应这种乡村小镇的单调生活。
• Programming a computer is a tedious business, but it's fun, too.
  用计算机编程是一件单调乏味的事情，但是它也很有趣。
• But developers and designers often find it tedious to work with CSS.
  但开发人员和设计人员常常发现CSS使用起来很单调乏味。
• Carlson, who was arthritic, found this to be a painful and tedious process.
  卡尔森，谁是关节炎，发现这是一个痛苦和冗长的过程。
• He performed the tedious task of collating texts.
  他做了冗长而乏味的校勘原文工作。