tedium
tedium 英 [ˈti:diəm] 美 [ˈtidiəm]
n. 沉闷；单调乏味；厌烦
名词复数:tediums
- Tedium is the state of being really bored while doing something repetitive. You may loathe the tedium of eating dinner with the family — after all, what is more boring than talking to mom and dad, especially if you could be texting friends?
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- n. 沉闷；单调乏味；厌烦
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1. Cut out the tedium of converting your photos manually by using automation features in your photo editing software.
使用照片编辑软件中的自动控制功能可以免去手工转换照片的沉闷。
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2. But what one so often neglects to account for from the outside of any job is the tedium-- and I include writing in that.
但是当人们提到任何工作的表象时总是忽略它的单调乏味，我考虑写写这方面的东西。
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3. One of the larger consequences of the government’s efforts to contain the spread of the swine-influenza virus here in Mexico City is tedium.
墨西哥城这里，政府力图控制猪流感疫情蔓延的努力导致了一个更为巨大的后果——那就是沉闷。
- 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 težo, Lithuanian tingiu, tingėti "to be dull, be listless."
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