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

如果员工们工作让他们感至极，那么他们就会通过闲聊来缓解无聊情绪。

Tedium itself can be a useful spur to inspiration.

单调本身就是一种有用灵感刺激。

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年会变成狂欢；他们只希望避免单调。

There's less tedium and more action.

少了，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无名英雄之列。凡足减轻其烦闷，振奋其精神之一切可能措施均应一一采取。

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

将一个人直接引向享受道路， 会将一个人引向单调。

My wife says I have a high tolerance for tedium.

我妻子说我对单调容忍度很高。

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

大多数人，无论是有意识还是无意识，都力求避免枯燥、痛苦以及任何形式逆境。

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

其中一个原因是，那些从事高薪但重复性工作心外科医生很快就会感枯燥。

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

我们肯定是唯一被这种倾向所诅咒人，将宏伟变为。

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，但都被平淡无篇一律所包围。

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

因为学习外语与希腊神话甜蜜交织在一起。

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

这是一个充满单调与欢乐、欢乐与好、充满欢笑、诗意与辉煌世界。

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，他们简短跨度禁止他们全身心投入如此深奥研究， 用便士纸来消遣这种单调方式。

Endless tedium followed: in the prison's courtyard, he jogged ten miles a day, with 58 laps to a mile.

接下来是无尽：在监狱院子里，他每天慢跑10英里， 每英里跑58圈。

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人来说， 一个新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.

但是，教室里单调气氛令他禁不住更加想念那位专注小学者，他思绪早已离开眼前这些学生——脑海里一片空白。

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

有点并没有什么可怕，但人们几乎会尽一切努力来避免大量生活。

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

灰色是沉思颜色；它让我们注意以前可能没有注意事情，在单调中脱颖而出。

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？是为了避免吃饭时总是夫妻对坐厌烦，为了让仆人休息半天，还是因为没有理由谢绝，因为该着吃别人一顿饭？谁也说不清。