monotony是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 单调， 枯燥，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：
-- There was a brief interruption this day to the monotony of the journey.
-- Great clumps of mimosas and eucalyptus, and various odorous gum-trees, broke the uniform monotony here and there.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With mingled feelings of annoyance at never being able to get away from acquaintances anywhere, and longing to find some sort of diversion from the monotony of his life, Vronsky looked once more at the gentleman, who had retreated and stood still again, and at the same moment a light came into the eyes of both.
-- As is indeed not unfrequent with women of unimpeachable virtue, weary of the monotony of respectable existence, at a distance she not only excused illicit love, she positively envied it.
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：
-- I tried to persuade myself than an obscure feeling of revolt had been gradually coming to a head in his slow mind, but to challenge this was the undoubted fact that he had never shown any impatience with the monotony of his life.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the monotony of my life, and in my constant apprehension of there-opening of the school, it was such an insupportable affliction!Ihad long tasks every day to do with Mr. Mell; but I did them, therebeing no Mr. and Miss Murdstone here, and got through themwithout disgrace.
-- At first, she seemed to wonder atthe gentle compassion with which the Doctor spoke to her, and athis wish that she should have her mother with her, to relieve thedull monotony of her life.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were alone together, once again; every object was bright and fresh; nothing reminded them, otherwise than by contrast, of the monotony and constraint they had left behind; church towers and steeples, frowning and dark at other times, now shone in the sun; each humble nook and corner rejoiced in light; and the sky, dimmed only by excessive distance, shed its placid smile on everything beneath.
-- They went on writing for a long time in silence after this in such a dull silence that Mr Swiveller (who required excitement) had several times fallen asleep, and written divers strange words in an unknown character with his eyes shut, when Miss Sally at length broke in upon the monotony of the office by pulling out the little tin box, taking a noisy pinch of snuff, and then expressing her opinion that Mr Richard Swiveller had 'done it.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am soon going back again to the miserable monotony of drill and perhaps our regiment will be ordered out soon.
-- Their pied faces and legs, dark and heavy horns, tresses of wool hanging round their swarthy foreheads, quite relieved the monotony of the flocks in that quarter.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To be sure, a loving woman shows even more ingenuity in inventing doubts of her lover than in varying the monotony of his happiness; and when she is about to be forsaken, she instinctively interprets every gesture as rapidly as Virgil's courser detected the presence of his companion by snuffing the breeze.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She begancalling for Ashley, over and over, as if in a delirium until the hideous monotony gave Scarlett a fierce desire tosmother her voice with a pillow.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Certainly the monotony on board must seem intolerable to the Canadian, accustomed as he was to a life of liberty and activity.
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：
-- Oh God, the wheels within wheels of people, it makes one's head tick like a clock, with a very madness of dead mechanical monotony and meaninglessness.
-- It seemed like a rising above the dreariness of actuality, the monotony of contingencies.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Bank offered no violence to the wholesome monotony of the town.
-- The monotony was unbroken.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hans, our worthy guide, thoroughly understood how to cook such eatables as we were able to provide; he had both fire and water at discretion, so that he was enabled slightly to vary the weary monotony of our ordinary repast.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nothing for the spent toiler to do, but to compare the monotony of his seventh day with the monotony of his six days, think what a weary life he led, and make the best of it or the worst, according to the probabilities.
-- The varying light of fire and candle in Mrs Clennam's room made the greatest change that ever broke the dead monotony of the spot.
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