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

• This is a tedious and error-prone job.
  这是一项乏味且容易出错的工作。
• This is a major step and also can be the most tedious step in tuning.
  这是调优中的一个主要步骤，同时也是最冗长乏味的一个步骤。
• The band's approach tends to be crushingly tedious.
  该乐队的演奏方式往往过于单调乏味。
• 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。
• 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。
• The tedious and slow "click through the network environment" is not necessary and saves precious time.
  的繁琐和缓慢“，通过网络环境下点击”是没有必要，而且节约了宝贵的时间。
• This part library reduces product design to standard component tedious and repeated work in the design.
  该零件库减少了产品设计中对于标准件设计中繁琐且重复性的工作。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。