tedious是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 沉闷的, 乏味的，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What time, the mail-coach lumbered, jolted, rattled, and bumped upon its tedious way, with its three fellow-inscru-tables inside.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Or perhaps not...I really am not sure," Vronsky answered heedlessly, with a vague recollection of something stiff and tedious evoked by the name Karenina.
-- But without this occupation, the life of Vronsky and of Anna, who wondered at his loss of interest in it, struck them as intolerably tedious in an Italian town.
-- "Oh, it's a long and tedious story!The whole business is in such an anomalous position with us.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was particularly tedious in materia medica.
-- No more than hearty business men in offices or fussy old men in villages are researchers free from the tedious vice of jovial commenting.
-- She was gone, yet she had never been so much with him as through that tedious hour when the steamer was lost beyond the horizon, a line edged with silver wire.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I would ask for the pleasure of your company, Mr. Knightley, but I am a very slow walker, and my pace would be tedious to you; and, besides, you have another long walk before you, to Donwell Abbey.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Beside the provisions lay the flute, whose notes had lately been called forth by the lonely watcher to beguile a tedious hour.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I fear, my friend, that I shall render myself tedious by dwelling on these preliminary circumstances; but they were days of comparative happiness, and I think of them with pleasure.
-- She nursed Madame Frankenstein, my aunt, in her last illness, with the greatest affection and care and afterwards attended her own mother during a tedious illness, in a manner that excited the admiration of all who knew her, after which she again lived in my uncle's house, where she was beloved by all the family.
-- Mine has been a tale of hor-rors; I have reached their acme, and what I must now relate can but be tedious to you.
-- Never will I give up my search until he or I perish; and then with what ecstasy shall I join my Elizabeth and my departed friends, who even now prepare for me the reward of my tedious toil and horrible pilgrimage!
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Of less moment which were in my first copy, for fear of being cen-sured as tedious and trifling, whereof travellers are often, perhaps not without justice, accused.
-- It would be tedious to trouble the reader with relating what vast numbers of illustrious persons were called up to 246 Gulliver's Travelsgratify that insatiable desire I had to see the world in every period of antiquity placed before me.
-- It would be tedious to relate the several steps by which I advanced to a more regular con-versation; but the first account I gave of myself in any order and length was to this purpose: 'That I came from a very far country, as I already had at-tempted to tell him, with about fifty more of my own species; that we travelled upon the seas in a great hollow vessel made of wood, and larger than his honour's house.
-- I had no occasion of bribing, flattering, or pimping, to procure the favour of any great man, or of his minion; I wanted no fence against fraud or oppression: here was nei-ther physician to destroy my body, nor lawyer to ruin my fortune; no informer to watch my words and actions, or forge accusations against me for hire: here were no gibers, censurers, backbiters, pickpockets, highwaymen, house-breakers, attorneys, bawds, buffoons, gamesters, politicians, wits, splenetics, tedious talkers, controvertists, ravishers, murderers, robbers, virtuosos; no leaders, or followers, of party and faction; no encouragers to vice, by seducement or examples; no dungeon, axes, gibbets, whipping-posts, or pillories; no cheating shopkeepers or mechanics; no pride, vanity, or affectation; no fops, bullies, drunkards, stroll-ing whores, or poxes; no ranting, lewd, expensive wives; no stupid, proud pedants; no importunate, overbearing, quarrelsome, noisy, roaring, empty, conceited, swearing companions; no scoundrels raised from the dust upon the merit of their vices, or nobility thrown into it on account of their virtues; no lords, fiddlers, judges, or dancing-masters.
-- It would be tedious to repeat his arguments, and my contra-dictions.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After a slight repast, I sought refuge in slumber, and at length, after many and tedious struggles, sleep came over my weary eyes.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'So, Amy,' she pursued, when she reopened her eyelids, 'will require to be roused from the effects of many tedious and anxious weeks.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- From the chocks it hangs in a slight festoon over the bows, and is then passed inside the boat again; and some ten or twenty fathoms (called box-line) being coiled upon the box in the bows, it continues its way to the gunwale still a little further aft, and is then attached to the short-warp the rope which is immediately connected with the harpoon; but previous to that connexion, the short-warp goes through sundry mystifications too tedious to detail.
-- Unmindful of the tedious rope-ladders of the shrouds, the men, like shooting stars, slid to the deck, by the isolated backstays and halyards; while Ahab, less dartingly, but still rapidly was dropped from his perch.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It would be tedious if given in the beadle's words: occupying, as it did, some twenty minutes in the telling; but the sum and substance of it was, that Oliver was a foundling, born of low and vicious parents.
-- The poor people were so neat and clean, and knelt so reverently in prayer, that it seemed a pleasure, not a tedious duty, their assembling there together; and though the singing might be rude, it was real, and sounded more musical (to Oliver's ears at least) than any he had ever heard in church before.
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