hum-drum
英语词源
- hum-drum (adj.)
- also humdrum, "routine, monotonous," 1550s, probably a reduplication of hum.
权威例句
- 1. Their lives consist of the humdrum activities of everyday existence.
- 他们的生活由日常生存的平凡活动所构成.
- 2. Imagination raises a man above the humdrum of life.
- 想象使人从单调无聊的生活中解脱出来.
- 3. The accountant said it was the most humdrum day that she had ever passed.
- 会计师说这是她所度过的最无聊的一天.
- 4. The new government seemed rather humdrum.
- 新政府看起来平庸无能。
- 5. It was a narrow, humdrum place.
- 那是个狭窄 、 枯燥的地方.