boring/arid/dreary/dry/dull/monotonous.导航词义：乏味的，无聊的

1. boring:adj. 令人厌烦的；乏味的，无聊的.普通用词，指某事物或某人因毫无趣味、吸引力而让人感到乏味的、无聊的。

The lesson was long and boring.

这一课又臭又长。

The job is boring.

这项工作枯燥乏味。

He was a boring nuisance!

他这人真讨厌！

2. arid:adj. 无新意的，无趣的.指某事物毫无趣味的，也指缺乏令人心动的特征或品质的。

arid scientific studies

枯燥的科学研究

The audience soon grew tired of his arid speech.

没多久听众就对他枯燥无味的演说感到厌烦了。

3. dreary:adj. 沉闷的，令人生厌的.指事物了无趣味、使人感到厌烦或沮丧的。

dreary work

乏味的工作

He is tired of the politician's dreary speech.

他厌倦了那个政客的枯燥演讲。

4. dry:adj. 干巴巴的，枯燥乏味的.指书籍、讲话、话题等干巴巴的、生硬的、缺乏幽默的，有时含贬义。

a dry debate on diplomatic policies

关于外交政策的乏味辩论

A book full of figures is rather dry.

一本满是数据的书读起来很枯燥乏味。

5. dull:adj. 乏味的，无趣的.作此义解时，通常只能用来形容事物，指因缺乏新鲜感、吸引力而显得乏味、沉闷的。

He doesn't believe that it will be a dull party.

他认为那不会是一次乏味的聚会。

This book is rather dull.

这本书很枯燥。

6. monotonous:adj. 单调的，乏味的.指没有变化、重复单调的。

a monotonous job/voice

单调的工作/声音

It is one of the most monotonous sounds of the spring.

这是春天里最单调的声音之一。

全部

1·The party was stupefyingly dull.

这次聚会无聊透了。《牛津词典》

2·His letters are insufferably dull.

他的信乏味不堪。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

3·The coffin closed with a dull thud.

随着一声沉闷地撞击声，棺材合上了。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

4·I felt she found me boring and dull.

我觉得她认为我令人厌烦而又乏味。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

5·She brought sunshine into our dull lives.

她给我们乏味的生活带来了欢乐。《牛津词典》

6·Her eyes were dull.

她目光呆滞。《牛津词典》

7·Bright curtains can cheer up a dull room.

色彩鲜艳的窗帘可以让单调的房间变得亮丽起来。《牛津词典》

8·The endless rain seemed to dull all sound.

连绵不断的阴雨似乎使所有的声音都变得沉闷起来。《牛津词典》

9·The first half of the game was pretty dull.

上半场比赛打得十分沉闷。《牛津词典》

10·Flowers can bring a dull room back to life.

鲜花可使沉闷的房间恢复生气。《牛津词典》

枯燥

1·It's up to you to plug the leak—even though there are always a dozen reasons to stay stuck in your dull routines of life.

这取决于你是否能填补这个漏洞——尽管总有一堆的理由把你困在枯燥的每日常规工作中。

2·It is a testimony to Roth's talent that he could not quite bring himself to write a book as dull and flat as his original conception for his novel Everyman seemed to demand.

这是对罗斯才华的证明，他不能接受自己不能完全按照对小说《所有人》的初衷所要求的那样，枯燥而平淡地写书。

3·The music is dull and uninspiring, and the same is true of the acting.

音乐沉闷枯燥毫不动人，表演也是。《牛津词典》

4·Society cannot function a single day without the dull and boring jobs.

没有这些“枯燥无趣”的工作，这个社会一天都不能正常运转。

5·If children see us praying in dull, repetitious ways, they'll get a picture of prayer opposite to what we want them to see.

如果孩子们看到我们枯燥、重复的祈祷方式，他们将会呈现以我们想要的相反方式去祈祷画面。

乏味

1·She brought sunshine into our dull lives.

她给我们乏味的生活带来了欢乐。《牛津词典》

2·He used to make extremely dull, turgid and frankly awful speeches.

他过去常作些极其乏味、晦涩难懂且令人生厌的演讲。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

3·It is the picture itself that is the problem; so small, so dull. It's a nothing, really.

是这张图片本身的问题，那么小，那么乏味。它没什么价值，真的。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

4·Isn't it a bit dull at times?

有些时候不会有点乏味吗？

5·There is not a dull line in the whole article.

整篇文章中没有一行是乏味的。《新英汉大辞典》

迟钝的

1·The consumer group admits the Toyota is a tad dull but its scores way ahead of rivals.

消费者群体承认这款丰田“稍显迟钝”，但它的得分遥遥领先竞争对手。

2·When your mind is dull, alternate nostril breathing brings equal amounts of oxygen to both sides of the brain for improving brain function.

当你头脑迟钝时，交替鼻孔呼吸给大脑两边带来等量的氧气，以改善大脑功能。

3·Yet, all I could feel was a numbness, as dull and muted as the sky.

然而，我能感受到的全是麻木，如天空一般的迟钝和缄默。

4·In the past, Charles has been portrayed by various commentators as a dull, slightly loopy eccentric with a habit of talking to his plants.

在过去，查尔斯常常被各种各样的评论描绘成一个迟钝且习惯谈论他的花草的稍显古怪的人。

5·If our bodies are not strong, our spirit to do things will certainly be quite dull.

如果我们的身体不强壮，我们做事的精神一定会十分迟钝。

单调

1·The town is still trying to cast off its dull image.

该镇仍在努力改变自己的单调形象。《牛津词典》

2·The village itself is pretty, but the surrounding countryside is rather dull.

村子本身很美，但周围的田野相当单调。《牛津词典》

3·Yesterday's programme was rather dull.

昨天的节目比较单调。《新英汉大辞典》

4·Who said that all the men in the world should wear dull gray suits and convict haircuts?

谁说世界上所有的男人都应该穿单调的灰色西装，留着罪犯式的发型？

5·No doubt some big, dull companies will do well in 2011.

当然一些大型的、单调的公司也能在2011年有良好表现。

钝

1·Don't picture the windowsill as a dull hot knife slitting open your belly.

不要把窗沿想象成一把滚烫钝刀子在为你开膛破肚。

2·A magnetic holder screwed to the wall is a practical way of keeping knives always within reach and isolated from other objects that could dull and dent the blades by knocking against them.

在墙上钉几个磁性支架来存放刀具是个不错的方法，既方便取用，又能把刀具跟其他物品分开，免得磕磕碰碰地弄钝弄花了刀刃。

3·When learning computer programming, I found it helpful to look at a function like a pencil sharpener. A parameter was a dull pencil, inside processes sharpened and returned a sharp pencil.

我在学编程时，常把程序比作卷笔刀，而把参数比作钝铅笔，经过处理我们就得到尖铅笔了。

4·Suddenly there were swords everywhere: fat swords, skinny swords, sharp swords, dull swords, fancy swords, but mostly tiny swords so that one man might carry many of them.

商人们忙碌了起来，一时间到处都是卖剑的，剑身有宽有窄，剑刃或利或钝，亦有的宝剑花哨夺目，卖得最多的是袖珍的宝剑，唯有这样一个人才能佩戴很多把。

5·Dull The blade of this knife is so dull that it will not cut a radish.

这把刀的刀锋太钝，不能切萝卜。

呆滞

1·When everything is about work we are far less likely to do a good job. And of course, all work and no play, makes Jill a dull girl.

如果我们远离工作，我们不可能把工作干好，反过来，只有工作没有玩耍，也会使得吉尔姑娘变成一个呆滞的姑娘。

2·The eyes are dull.

目光全都是呆滞的。

3·Idealism has a role to play - it can convince us that no matter how misshapen, decrepit, or dull we are, there is someone out there for us.

理想主义有一个作用——它使我们相信，无论我们多么畸形，衰老，或呆滞，总会有人帮助我们。

4·But now there was a dull stare in her eyes, whose gaze was fixed away off yonder on one of those patches of blue sky.

然而现在她目光呆滞，定定地凝视着远处的某一片蓝天。

5·He still wore on his face that dull, dead look of half-unconscious suffering.

他脸上还带着半知半觉的痛苦所造成的那种呆滞麻木的神情。

暗

1·Everything was good, well made, and little worn, but Amy's artistic eyes were much afflicted, especially this winter, when her school dress was a dull purple with yellow dots and no trimming.

其实这些衣物全都不错，做工精细，磨损极少，但艾美的艺术眼光却不能忍受，尤其是这个冬天，她穿的暗紫色校服布满黄点还没有饰边。

2·The oil slick appeared as a tangle of dull gray on the ocean surface, made visible to the satellite sensor by the sun's reflection on the ocean surface.

浮油区在海面上呈现为一团暗灰色，因为海面对太阳光的反射才使卫星传感器能够发现它。

3·Whether your light is bright, dull, or completely out, you are loved.

不管你的光是亮，暗，还是完全熄灭，神都爱你。

4·Stem erect, dull crimson striate, to 40 cm.

茎直立，具条纹的暗深红色，40厘米。

5·Groupers are usually dull green or Brown; some species can change their colour pattern, and deepwater individuals may be much redder than nearshore ones.

石斑鱼体色一般呈暗绿或暗褐色，有些种类栖居深海的比生活在近海的体色更红。

无趣

1·Written communications can often read as cold and dull.

书面交流通常会显得冷漠和无趣。

2·The advertisers show us the latest fashionable styles and we are constantly under pressure to follow the fashion in case our friends think we are odd or dull.

广告商向我们展示最新的时尚风格，我们不断承受着赶时髦的压力，以免我们的朋友认为我们古怪或无趣。

3·Some of the EU's regular summits with China are very dull.

欧盟和中国之间的一些定期峰会非常无趣。

4·But there is one event that is deliberately dedicated to all things dull and tedious – the 'Boring Conference' hosted every year at London.

但是有人故意组织一场会议，说的都是全然无趣又乏味的事物，那就是每年在伦敦举办的“无聊大会”。

5·Sometimes, the best trades in FX are the ones you don't make! If the market is dull, then move one market to another.

第九条：有时外汇市场上最好的交易就是不做交易。如果市场很无趣，那么就移到别的市场。

阴暗的

1·A person with a bright personality is usually more popular than a person with a dull personality, right?

一个有着明朗性格的人通常会比有着阴暗性格的人来的受欢迎，对吧？

2·“Owning is dull, selfish, timid, backward.” (“Crisp”?

而拥有是阴暗，自私，畏怯和落后的表现。

3·All I visualize is doom and gloom - dull haze in the atmosphere, people afraid for their lives because of wander bands of STSs, hunger, no hope for the future.

我所设想的全都是死亡和阴暗—大气阴暗的薄雾，人们因为周围徘徊的服务自我群体而担心自己的生活，饥饿，未来没有希望。

4·Creeping shadows were cast over the dull grey earth and the moon, a sickly-looking orb, hung in the sky occasionally hidden by floating grey clouds.

令人恐怖的影子投射在阴暗的灰色大地上，月亮，一个病态的球体，高高地悬挂在天上，偶尔被灰色的流云遮住。

5·If the sight had been a ghastly one in the dull morning, what was it, now, in all that brilliant light!

如果说，这副情景即便是在阴暗的早晨也令人骇然，那么现在，当一切都披上了灿烂的日光，这又是一副什么光景啊！