monotonous是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 单调的, 无变化的，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Levin listened to the monotonous drip from the lime trees in the garden, and looked at the triangle of stars he knew so well, and the Milky Way with its branches that ran through its midst.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'A dull old house,' he said, 'and a monotonous life; but I must haveher near me.
-- An indescribable character offaded gentility that attached to the house I sought, and made itunlike all the other houses in the streetthough they were all builton one monotonous pattern, and looked like the early copies of ablundering boy who was learning to make houses, and had not yetgot out of his cramped brick-and-mortar pothooks- reminded mestill more of Mr. and Mrs. Micawber.
-- 'Uriah Heep,' said Mr. Wickfield, in a monotonous forced way, 'isactive in the business, Trotwood.
-- My aunt informed me howhe incessantly occupied himself in copying everything he could layhis hands on, and kept King Charles the First at a respectfuldistance by that semblance of employment; how it was one of themain joys and rewards of her life that he was free and happy,instead of pining in monotonous restraint; and how (as a novelgeneral conclusion) nobody but she could ever fully know what hewas.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The glasses and cups still stood upon the table, a water-jug being overturned, from which a small rill, after tracing its course with marvellous precision down the centre of the long table, fell into the neck of the unconscious Mark Clark, in a steady, monotonous drip, like the dripping of a stalactite in a cave.
-- The waggon and its load rolled no longer on the horizontal division between clearness and opacity, but were imbedded in an elastic body of a monotonous pallor throughout.
-- At three in the afternoon he found himself at the foot of a slope more than a mile in length, which ran to the ridge of a range of hills lying parallel with the shore, and forming a monotonous barrier between the basin of cultivated country inland and the wilder scenery of the coast.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a monotonous yet ever-changing scene.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The monotonous rows of soldiers' graves at Oakland Cemetery stretched longer every day.
-- Thirty days of siege!The city ringedwith red-clay rifle pits, the monotonous booming of cannon that never rested, the long lines of ambulances and oxcarts dripping blood down the dusty streets toward the hospitals, the overworked burial squads dragging out men whenthey were hardly cold and dumping them like so many logs in endless rows of shallow ditches.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When the fights were over, Biddy gave out the number of a page, and then we all read aloud what we could,--or what we couldn't--in a frightful chorus; Biddy leading with a high, shrill, monotonous voice, and none of us having the least notion of, or reverence for, what we were reading about.
-- No more low, wet grounds, no more dikes and sluices, no more of these grazing cattle,--though they seemed, in their dull manner, to wear a more respectful air now, and to face round, in order that they might stare as long as possible at the possessor of such great expectations,--farewell, monotonous acquaintances of my childhood, henceforth I was for London and greatness; not for smith's work in general, and for you!I made my exultant way to the old Battery, and, lying down there to consider the question whether Miss Havisham intended me for Estella, fell asleep.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The scene was a plain, bare, monotonous vault of a school-room, and the speaker's square forefinger emphasized his observations by underscoring every sentence with a line on the schoolmaster's sleeve.
-- 'There seems to be nothing there but languid and monotonous smoke.
-- Even Stephen Blackpool's disappearance was falling into the general way, and becoming as monotonous a wonder as any piece of machinery in Coketown.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Always the same damp and swampy soil; the same dreary uniformity; the same sad and monotonous aspect of scenery.
-- After about ten hours of further progress--a progress dull and monotonous to the last degree--I remarked that the reverberation, and reflection of our lamps upon the sides of the tunnel, had singularly diminished.
-- Our voyage now became monotonous and uniform.
-- I actually thought I could see our faithful and monotonous Hans and the wonderful grotto in which I had come back to life after my tremendous fall.
-- And still the long monotonous hours went on.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Far away the dusty vines overhanging wayside cottages, and the monotonous wayside avenues of parched trees without shade, drooped beneath the stare of earth and sky.
-- 'But I bear those monotonous walls no ill-will now,' said Mr Meagles.
-- 'I have now ascertained that it is public business,' returned the suitor, 'and I want to know' and again repeated his monotonous inquiry.
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