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单调 in English:

1. tedious tedious


Your eccentricities can make you either charming or tedious.
Thanks to you, the backlog of tedious work has been completed.
tedious journey/task/job
We had to listen to all the tedious details.
The lecture was so tedious that i fell asleep
It took us more than two hours because of the tedious paperwork,
Waiting for a train is tedious.
Forty percent of the workforce are white-collar workers, most of whom have some of the most tedious and idiotic jobs ever concocted.
A tedious film seems to take longer than an exciting one of the same footage.
What is the most tedious process you have ever had to go through? One of the most tedious processes I've ever had to go through was waiting in immigration at the airport.
The definition of tedious is something that is boring and repetitive
Lack of a break after a long year's tedious work will reduce the efficiency of teachers. a tedious job /ˈtiːdiəs/
She was given tedious task of entering lists of numbers.
I hate doing the dishes! It’s so tedious.
‘And it’s incredibly tedious,’ Will said.

2. monotonous


My life is monotonous.
Listening practice tends to be monotonous.
I'm tired of the monotonous life.
His monotonous voice made me feel sleepy.
monotonous work
Spending nine hours a day packing frozen chicken is the most monotonous work I\'ve ever done.
He has a monotonous factory job.
This music is very monotonous and boring.
The speech was a little monotonous.
Why do physicists converge? Because they're monotonous and narrow.
This story is rather monotonous.
He seems to be oppressed by his monotonous daily life.

other words beginning with "单"

单独 in English