tedium
英 ['ti?d??m]
美['tid??m]
- n. 沉悶；單調(diào)乏味；厭煩
GRETEM8TOEFL暢通詞匯
助記提示
1. tedi- + -um (Latin suffix).
2. => dullness, weariness.
3. 提到你爹爹的母親也就是你奶奶，奶奶講話每次都不記得講過(guò)什么，所以他講話超乏味.
2. => dullness, weariness.
3. 提到你爹爹的母親也就是你奶奶，奶奶講話每次都不記得講過(guò)什么，所以他講話超乏味.
中文詞源
tedium 冗長(zhǎng)，乏味
來(lái)自拉丁語(yǔ) taedium,冗長(zhǎng)，乏味，來(lái)自 teadere,使乏味，使厭倦。
英文詞源
- tedium (n.)
- "tediousness," 1660s, from Latin taedium "weariness, irksomeness, disgust," related to taedet "it is wearisome, it excites loathing," and to taedere "to weary," of uncertain origin. Possible cognates are Old Church Slavonic te?o, Lithuanian tingiu "to be dull, be listless."
雙語(yǔ)例句
- 1. It was another day of mind-numbing tedium.
- 又是一個(gè)令人麻木的單調(diào)乏味的日子。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 2. She longed for something to relieve the tedium of everyday life.
- 她渴望有什么事情能排解她日常生活中的煩悶。
來(lái)自《權(quán)威詞典》
- 3. We played games to relieve the tedium of the journey.
- 我們玩游戲,來(lái)解除旅行的沉悶.
來(lái)自《簡(jiǎn)明英漢詞典》
- 4. She began to wonder whether she wouldn't go mad with the tedium of the job.
- 她開(kāi)始懷疑自己會(huì)不會(huì)被枯燥的工作逼瘋。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 5. In myself I could observe the following sources of tedium.
- 從我自己身上,我所觀察到的煩悶的根源有下列一些.
來(lái)自辭典例句