1.乏味的;单调的boring and always the same
a humdrum existence/job/life平淡的生活;乏味的工作╱生活
These activities seem to be far more profitable than the humdrum business of managing payments and channelling savings towards investment.
这些活动似乎远远比乏味的薪酬管理和引导储蓄进入投资领域更为有利可图。
She was glad to be out of the flat, because already she felt that it was a narrow, humdrum place, and that interest and joy lay elsewhere.
离开公寓到外面走走,使她心情舒畅,因为她已经感到那个家狭隘单调,毫无趣味和欢乐可言。
Was it a humdrum crime of trying to steal banking details?
这是一种用以盗窃银行数据的普通犯罪活动?
We should hesitate to admit this if it were merely a question of humdrum dwellers on this corner of the universe called Earth.
如果这仅仅是这个叫做地球的宇宙之中的角落里无聊居民的问题,我们在承认这一点时会犹豫不决。
Last but not least, students' creativity tends to be repressed due to the humdrum and dull homework.
最后,学生们的创造力在单调乏味的作业压力下受到极大的压抑。
Hours before the panic began, there were signs that Thursday was not shaping up to be a humdrum day.
恐慌抛盘开始前数小时,即有信号表明上周四不会是个平凡之日。
So humdrum was the technical work that it killed Wu Yu's patience. He hoped to be unique. He needed more space for himself.
单调、重复的技术工作让吴宇失去了耐心,他希望与众不同,他要创造更广阔的自我空间。
Reality always look better in slow motion. Even the most humdrum events can seem like the most dramatic moment of an action film.
慢镜头中的世界总会显得更加精彩,即使是最无聊的事也可能变得像是动作片的精彩镜头。
Making tomato sauce was humdrum domestic work that did not contribute to my goals and , more important, wasn't scheduled.
而做番茄酱只是无聊时做的家务,对我的工作没什么帮助;更重要的是这并不在我的计划之内。
There are also few new experiences for you, just the humdrum of daily life and the loneliness of having to get on with it on your own.
你也会拥有一些新的体验--平凡的日常生活、和依靠自己继续进行它的寂寞。
She felt that she must not yield. She must go on leading her strained, humdrum life.
她觉得不能打退堂鼓,必须继续过那贫困而单调的生活。
At first glance, nothing could be more mechanical than the humdrum business of getting ready to start a class.
乍看之下,没有什么比这个机械较单调乏味的业务摩拳擦掌,准备开始一个阶层。
A couple of weeks ago I dreamt that a page editor asked me to do some humdrum subbing as he was too busy.
几周前,我梦到一位版面编辑要求我替他做一些单调的工作,因为他太忙。
Instead of being the humdrum statistical world, everything seemed to turn into butterflies and perfume.
而被统计的单调的世界,一切似乎都变成蝴蝶和香水。
But at the more humdrum end of the business, smaller presses for simple metal shapes, Chinese competition is hurting Galdabini.
但在行业略为低端的领域,即制造简单金属形状的更小的冲压件方面,中国的竞争者正打击这家公司。
The sophisticated technology that sets luxury cars apart from humdrum, mass-market vehicles comes with a high degree of risk.
先进的技术使豪华轿车有别于单调的、面向大众市场的汽车,但这具有高风险。
This case shows how the apparently humdrum process of transliterating names from one language to another can be exploited by criminals.
这个案件告诉了我们,将名字从一种语言音译为另一种语言很明显是很简单单调的程序,但这会被某些罪犯们利用。
but as it was it would mean taking her from one everyday humdrum life to another as humdrum or perhaps more so.
可是那样就将意味着把她从每天的单调生活里带到另一种单调甚至可能更加单调的生活里。
The information is in part humdrum and also dramatic, showing in raw detail the intelligence reports sent from personnel in the field.
有些信息平淡无奇,有些则有戏剧性的描述,展示了战地人员发来的原始的详细情报报告。
Boy: Hmn, I feel very humdrum. There is nobody here to talk with me. How humdrum!
男孩:嗯,太无聊了。这儿一个说话的人也没有。真没意思!
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