"tedious" in Chinese (Simplified)

• 乏味的
• 冗长的

Definition

乏味的事情通常非常无聊，需要花费大量时间或精力完成，通常因为内容重复或单调。

Usage Notes (Chinese (Simplified))

多用于正式或书面语。常见搭配如“tedious task”、“tedious process”。‘tedious’不仅指无聊，还强调耗时和重复。勿与‘boring’混淆，‘tedious’更强调重复和冗长。

Examples

Filling out all these forms is so tedious.

填写这些表格真的很**乏味**。

The lecture was long and tedious.

讲座很长，非常**乏味**。

Copying this text by hand would be tedious work.

手写这段文字会是个很**繁琐**的工作。

I quit the project because the tasks were just too tedious to handle every day.

我退出了这个项目，因为每天要做的任务太**乏味**了。

Sorting all those files turned out to be more tedious than I expected.

整理所有那些文件比我想象的还要**繁琐**。

Even with music on, cleaning the garage feels tedious after a while.

即使有音乐，打扫车库时间长了还是会觉得很**单调**。