adj. 令人厌倦[生厌]的,沉闷的,没趣的;麻烦的,讨厌的。 How tiresome ! I have left my watch behind. 真讨厌!我忘了带表了。 Nobody likes to attend the tiresome lecture. 谁也不愿意上那个令人生倦的课。
so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; "a boring evening with uninteresting people"; "the deadening effect of some routine tasks"; "a dull play"; "his competent but dull performance"; "a ho-hum speaker who couldn''t capture their attention"; "what an irksome task the writing of long letters is"- Edmund Burke; "tedious days on the train"; "the tiresome chirping of a cricket"- Mark Twain; "other people''s dreams are dreadfully wearisome" 同义词:boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, wearisome,
例句与用法
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It was all both shocking and tiresome . 所有这些既令人震惊又使人厌倦。
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Selling your house can be a tiresome business . 卖房子有时候是很麻烦的事。
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The children were being rather tiresome . 孩子们那时很讨人厌。
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Nobody likes to attend the tiresome lecture . 谁也不愿意上那个令人生倦的课。
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How tiresome ! i have left my watch behind ... 真讨厌!
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Going through the customs is a tiresome business . 接受海关检查是桩令人生厌的事。
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Of course the ancients too are often very tiresome . 当然,老派人往往也无聊得要命。
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He was tiresome in contending for the value of his own labours . 他老为他自己劳动的价值而争强斗胜,令人生厌。
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It was tiresome and unfair and her brother was sick of it . 这真叫人腻味,而且也不公平,她哥哥对此可是厌烦了。
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She lingered, and resisted my persuasions to departure a tiresome while . 她踌躇不去,我好说歹说地劝她走,她就是不听。