| 词汇 | monotony |
| 释义 | monotony noun[ U ] uk /məˈnɒt.ən.i/ us /məˈnɑː.t̬ən.i/(alsomonotonousness) a situation in which something stays the same and is therefore boring: 单调乏味；毫无变化 The monotony of motorway driving can cause accidents.在高速公路上驾车单调乏味，可能引发交通事故。 The routine was the same every day, with nothing to break/relieve the monotony.每天做的事都相同，没有什么来打破／调剂这种单调。 the state of being unhappy and uninterested boredomThere's nothing to do at the cabin - I might die of boredom. tediumFilming a televison show involves a fair bit of waiting and tedium behind the scenes. tediousnessI can't imagine the tediousness of cataloguing every single piece of writing in the archive. wearinessShe listened to his complaining with a growing sense of weariness. ennuiHis latest book was about suburban ennui and the middle-aged desire for something new. drearinessShe wanted to go to the big city and escape the dreariness of her rural, small-town life. Boredom, tedium and boring things banality blandness boredom cabin fever commonplace ennui flatness frustration insipidness jejune screed snooze snoozefest sterility stodginess stuffiness the same old thingidiom torpor turgid yawningly monotony | American Dictionarymonotony noun[ U ] us/məˈnɑt·ən·i/ boring sameness: He drove for hours with nothing to break the monotony. Examples of monotonymonotony Another compensation for the monotony of the text might have been an extensive introduction, but here it is unnecessarily restricted to twenty-four pages. She sees the main disadvantage of secondary class teaching as 'the monotony of the same syllabus year after year'. The task was split into two parts, with a filler task in between, to reduce monotony. It can result in monotony: so can a curvilinear suburbia. For example, in our interviews respondents reported monotony in some linear accelerator activities. A look at the waveform diagram of the work's overall temporal shape shows the reason - a complete monotony, predictability, repetitiveness. One might think that the performance of several versions of the same chant in quick succession would lead to monotony, but it is not so. All of this lends the work the stamp of monotony. It would avoid the monotony that might arise if one individual alone was responsible for all aspects of the site. Pity he could not wholly overcome its rhythmical monotony. The material is thin, and we are consumed - by monotony. From the later eighteenth century the vernacular tradition began to decline, with the growing trend towards 'standardization and monotony' (p. 294). Although both a rigid routine and its total absence can create monotony, sheer boredom seems to have been medieval inmates' share. Irritation, discomfort, and monotony are a duplication of reality. They are elements for the construction of a city allowing great variation, and with them the usual monotony of cities could be avoided. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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