CHEVELEY. Oh, I like tedious, practical subjects. What I don't like are tedious, practical people. There is a wide difference. Besides, you are interested, I know, in International Canal schemes. You were Lord Radley's secretary, weren't you, when the Government bought the Suez Canal shares?英文原著 · 《An Ideal Husband》
Go it! Go IT, ye devil, you!" with your throat all clenched that way and your face as red as a turkey-gobbler's. And that second when they are going under the wire, and the horse you rather like is about a nose behind the other one that you despise - Oh, tedious, very tedious. Ho hum, Harry! If I wasn't engaged, I wouldn't marry. Did you think to put a saucer of milk out for the kitty before you locked up the house?英文原著 · 《Back Home》
Now, such a love-scene as that has absolutely never been written down; it was entirely decent, yet vulgar to the nth power. Dickens would have made it ludicrous--a gross injustice. Other men who deal with low-class life would perhaps have preferred idealising it--an absurdity. For my own part, I am going to reproduce it verbatim, without one single impertinent suggestion of any point of view save that of honest reporting. The result will be something unutterably tedious. Precisely. That is the stamp of the ignobly decent life. If it were anything but tedious it would be untrue.英文原著 · 《New Grub Street》
Then, Dick, let us go hence lest we great folks annoy: For nothing can more tedious be than plaint in time of joy.英文原著 · 《A Defence of Poesie and Poems》
Tell them that you know their intention -- and they will not dare. What sport! To shoot you like a bird" . "Please do not be uneasy, doctor, and wait awhile. I shall arrange everything in such a way that there will be no advantage on their side. Let them whisper" . "Gentlemen, this is becoming tedious," I said to them loudly: "if we are to fight, let us fight; you had time yesterday to talk as much as you wanted to."
"We are ready," answered the captain. "Take your places, gentlemen!英文原著 · 《A Hero of Our Time》
March was wearing away tediously. The river was not yet open, and the belated boats with needed supplies were moored far down the river. Many of the reduced settlers were dependent on the meat the Indians brought them for sustenance. The mud made the roads almost impassable; for the frost lay in a solid bed six inches below the surface, and all above that was semi- liquid muck. Snow and rain alternated, and the frightful disease did not cease its ravages.英文原著 · 《A Mountain Woman》
Let's not bore the lady with these tedious questions.美剧 · 《Billions》
This is just going to be two weeks of moping And tedious emo songs And calling me to come down to pet stores to look at cats.美剧 · 《The Big Bang Theory》
If only I'd had the presence of mind to reabsorb her, Then I'd have a mole with hair in it Instead of a tedious yearly Christmas letter.美剧 · 《The Big Bang Theory》