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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The ground had once more become a dead level, the last mountains of the Pampas were passed, and a long carpet of verdure unrolled itself over the monotonous prairie beneath the horses' tread.
-- Here the Argentine territory resumed its monotonous aspect.
-- Up to this time there had been a singular resemblance in the country to the monotonous plains of the Argentine Pampas.
-- It would be idle to narrate all the monotonous and uninteresting details of the rest of the journey.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He helps to keep our lives from being monotonous and gives a little comic relief where it is badly needed.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This disaster was the sudden collapse of the habits that had become part of his nature in the ten or more monotonous years he had spent on the island.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Akela never raised his head from his paws, but went on with the monotonous cry: 'Look well!'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Outside could be heard the howling of the wind and the monotonous sound of the surf breaking on the shore.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'When I think,' said he, 'of the many years many in thy short life that thou has lived with me; of my monotonous existence, knowing no companions of thy own age nor any childish pleasures; of the solitude in which thou has grown to be what thou art, and in which thou hast lived apart from nearly all thy kind but one old man; I sometimes fear I have dealt hardly by thee, Nell.'
-- For, it was not the monotonous days unchequered by variety and uncheered by pleasant companionship, it was not the dark dreary evenings or the long solitary nights, it was not the absence of every slight and easy pleasure for which young hearts beat high, or the knowing nothing of childhood but its weakness and its easily wounded spirit, that had wrung such tears from Nell.
-- There were dull pigs too, turning up the ground in search of dainty food, and grunting their monotonous grumblings as they prowled about, or crossed each other in their quest; plump pigeons skimming round the roof or strutting on the eaves; and ducks and geese, far more graceful in their own conceit, waddling awkwardly about the edges of the pond or sailing glibly on its surface.
-- Their way lay, for the most part, through the low grounds, and open plains; and except these distant places, and occasionally some men working in the fields, or lounging on the bridges under which they passed, to see them creep along, nothing encroached on their monotonous and secluded track.
-- Mr Quilp was certainly entertaining himself with vocal exercise, but it was rather a kind of chant than a song; being a monotonous repetition of one sentence in a very rapid manner, with a long stress upon the last word, which he swelled into a dismal roar.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She closed her eyes, closed away the monotonous level of dead wonder, and opened them again to the every-day world.
-- She was watching the fingers twitch across the eternal, mechanical, monotonous clock-face of time.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A monotonous occupation, calculated to set me asleep, like counting, or What CAN you mean by talking in this way to ME!'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Just as the sisters arrived here, a monotonous boy in a Scotch cap put his head round a beam on the left, and said, 'Less noise there, ladies!'
-- 'It is not much; but since you told me of the lady who gave you the bracelet, Fanny 'The monotonous boy put his head round the beam on the left, and said, 'Look out there, ladies!'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The prospect was unlimited, but exceedingly monotonous and forbidding; not the slightest variety that I could see.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Lydia gaped as he opened the volume, and before he had, with very monotonous solemnity, read three pages, she interrupted him with: 'Do you know, mamma, that my uncle Phillips talks of turning away Richard; and if he does, Colonel Forster will hire him.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For another period this state continued, the twain leading a rather monotonous life, and then there was a slight change for the worse.
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