If workers have jobs that bore them rigid, they will alleviate the tedium with chit-chat.

如果员工们的工作让他们感到乏至极，那么他们就会通过闲聊来缓解聊情绪。

Tedium itself can be a useful spur to inspiration.

单调乏本身就种有用的灵感刺激。

Most workers don't expect their seasonal event to turn into a Bacchanal; they are just hoping to avoid tedium.

大多数工人并不指望他们的年会变成狂欢；他们只希望避免单调乏。

There's less tedium and more action.

少了乏，多了行动。

They are amongst the unsung heroes of this war, and everything possible to lighten their tedium and buoy up their morale should be done.

彼辈亦属此次战争中名英雄之列。凡足减轻其烦闷，振奋其精神之切可能措施均应取。

The road which leads one man straight to enjoyment leads another to tedium.

将个人直接引向享受的道路， 会将另个人引向单调乏。

My wife says I have a high tolerance for tedium.

我妻子说我对单调的容忍度很高。

Most people, consciously or unconsciously, seek to avoid tedium, pain, and any form of adversity.

大多数人，论有识还识，都力求避免枯燥、痛苦以及任何形式的逆境。

One reason is that surgeons who settle down for well-paid but repetitive routines soon begin to feel their tedium.

其中个原因，那些从事高薪但重复性工作的心外科医生很快就会感到枯燥。

We must be the only thing cursed with the tendency to reduce the magnificent  to tedium.

我们肯定唯被这种倾向所诅咒的人，将宏伟变为乏。

Happiness and sorrow, despair and hope were there, but all encompassed by the heavy tedium of prosaic sameness.

幸福和悲伤， 绝望和希望都在那里，但都被平淡奇的千篇律所包围。

For the tedium of learning a foreign language mingled gall into the sweetness of those Grecian myths.

因为学习外语的乏与希腊神话的甜蜜交织在起。

It is a world full of tedium and delight, pleasure and curiosity, of extravagant laughter, poetry, and splendour.

这个充满单调与欢乐、欢乐与好奇、充满欢笑、诗与辉煌的世界。

Others, whose briefer span forbade their devoting themselves to studies so abstruse, beguiled the little tedium of the way with penny-papers.

其他人，他们的简短跨度禁止他们全身心投入如此深奥的研究， 用便士纸来消遣这种单调乏的方式。

Although it’s early days, for those of us who struggle to overcome the tedium of exercise, a new solution could be coming.

虽然现在还为时过早， 但对于我们这些努力克服锻炼乏的人来说， 个新的解决方案可能会出现。

But the tedium of his office reminded him more strongly of the willing scholar, and his thoughts were rambling from his pupils-it was plain.

但，教室里单调乏的气氛令他禁不住更加想念那位专注的小学者，他的思绪早已离开眼前这些学生——脑海里片空白。

There is nothing to fear in a bit of tedium, but people will do almost anything to avoid it in large doses.

有点乏并没有什么可怕的，但人们几乎会尽切努力来避免大量乏的生活。

Gray is the color of contemplation; it makes us notice things we might not have paid attention to before, standing out amidst the tedium.

灰色沉思的颜色；它让我们注到以前可能没有注到的事情，在单调乏中脱颖而出。

Why? To avoid the tedium of dining tete-a-tete, to give their servants a rest, because there was no reason to refuse, because they were " owed" a dinner.

为什么这样做？为了避免吃饭时总夫妻对坐的厌烦，为了让仆人休息半天，还因为没有理由谢绝，因为该着吃别人顿饭？谁也说不清。

To relieve the tedium of this untimely day she would overhaul the cupboards containing her grandfather's old charts and other rubbish, humming Saturday-night ballads of the country people the while.

为了减少这个讨厌日子的单调乏，她就在家翻箱倒柜，摆弄她外公的旧海图和其它杂物，嘴里哼着乡里人星期六晚上唱的民谣。