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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Waiting for a ship might be a tedious affair, for Twofold Bay is not much frequented.
-- The sail was taken in, and everything made snug for a tedious period of inaction.
-- Their death was speedy and not aggravated by tedious suffering; torture was reserved for the authors of the murder, who, only twenty paces off, averted their eyes from the horrible scene which was to grow yet more horrible.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Why go into these tedious details?
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'We are awake, Duncan,' said the soft, silvery tones of Alice within the building, 'and ready to travel very fast af-ter so refreshing a sleep; but you have watched through the tedious night in our behalf, after having endured so much fatigue the livelong day!'
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When at last we were all assembled, waiting for dinner to be announced, I reflected, while I chatted with the woman I had been asked to "take in," that civilised man practises a strange ingenuity in wasting on tedious exercises the brief span of his life.
-- My friends pursued their course with uneventfulness; they had no longer any surprises for me, and when I met them I knew pretty well what they would say; even their love-affairs had a tedious banality.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The reporter, to whom his tedious captivity did not offer a single incident worthy of note, could stand it no longer.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It would be tedious to pursue the conversation through all its artful windings, or to develope the gradual approaches by which the heart of Richard Swiveller was gained.
-- But, now, the chambers were cold and gloomy, and when she left her own little room to while away the tedious hours, and sat in one of them, she was still and motionless as their inanimate occupants, and had no heart to startle the echoes hoarse from their long silence with her voice.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I should like balls infinitely better,' she replied, 'if they were carried on in a different manner; but there is some-thing insufferably tedious in the usual process of such a meeting.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The piles, or stakes, which were as heavy as I could well lift, were a long time in cutting and preparing in the woods, and more, by far, in bringing home; so that I spent sometimes two days in cutting and bringing home one of those posts, and a third day in driving it into the ground; for which purpose I got a heavy piece of wood at first, but at last bethought myself of one of the iron crows; which, however, though I found it, made driving those posts or piles very laborious and tedious work.
-- All this, as I said, made everything laborious and tedious to me; but that there was no help for.
-- As I have troubled you with none of my sea journals, so I shall trouble you now with none of my land journals; but some adventures that happened to us in this tedious and difficult journey I must not omit.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER 6The first part of their journey was performed in too melancholy a disposition to be otherwise than tedious and unpleasant.
-- The alteration is not in them, if their parties are grown tedious and dull.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was most pesky tedious hard work and slow, and didn't give my hands no show to get well of the sores, and we didn't seem to make no head-way, hardly; so Tom says: 'I know how to fix it.
-- Look at them case-knife saws and things, how tedious they've been made; look at that bed-leg sawed off with 'm, a week's work for six men; look at that nigger made out'n straw on the bed; and look at ' 'You may WELL say it, Brer Hightower!It's jist as I was a-sayin' to Brer Phelps, his own self.
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