乏味

A phrenologist and a mesmerizer came -- and went again and left the village duller and drearier than ever.

后来，又来了一个骨相家和一个催眠师——他们也走了，这个镇子较之以往更加沉闷、更加乏味。

They could do only simple, monotonous and mundane things, like moving objects from one production line to another—they were drudges, like the slaves Karel Capek described in 1920 in the play that coined the term from the Czech word robota, or "forced labour".

它们只能做些简单，单调，乏味的工作。比如说把货物从一个流水线上转移到另一个上。它们只是苦工，正如上世纪二十年代卡雷尔？恰佩克在话剧中用捷克语robota创造了robot的初衷一样，只是&被奴役的劳工&。

There is no work for any but the decorous and the complaisant. Young men of the fairest promise, who begin life upon our shores, inflated by the mountain winds, shined upon by all the stars of God, find the earth below not in unison with these,--but are hindered from action by the disgust which the principles on which business is managed inspire, and turn drudges, or die of disgust,--some of them suicides.

有着远大前程的青年人，诞生于我们的海岸，来自群山长风鼓动他们的胸怀，上帝的众星照耀着他们，他们却发现脚下的土地和这一切不能相互协调，——他们受制约，因着那令人作呕的行事规则被迫置身行动之外，一些转做单调乏味的苦工，另一些无法忍受那憎恶——他们中的一些人自杀而亡。

"They said:"Gone is the image of fish as drudging and dim-witted pea-brains, driven largely by 'instinct',' with what little behavioural flexibility they possess being severely hampered by an infamous 'three-second memory'.

他们说：&过去鱼类被看作单调乏味、脑袋只有豌豆大的笨蛋，只会受'本能'驱使，仅有的一点儿行动灵活性也被它那臭名昭著的'三秒钟记性'严重阻碍了。如今这种说法已经一去不返了。&

I mean there's only so many times the same style of story can make you cry before you start to expect it and its impact is dulled right?

我的意思是，仅仅是相同模式的故事在很多时候你还没开始考虑其合理性之前就把你弄哭了，而且他的冲击性也变得乏味了，不是吗？

To be picky, the repetition of the same thai food and pastries was a bit dulling after a while.

如果你是个挑剔的人，过了一段时间后，你会觉得这种重复的同样的泰式美食、点心有点乏味了。

Do boys have to be bored, fat and dumber than their sisters?

男孩注定就会比他们的姐妹们乏味、肥胖和木讷吗？

It's just a shame that he soon became embroiled in the tedious Hiro butterfly effect story arc.

这只是一个，他很快就在乏味浩蝴蝶效应的故事弧卷入耻辱。

But he adds:"I don't want it to be a major part of my existence because I've done that ... I don't want to get very enmeshed in prosaic things."

但他补充说：&我不想它成为我的主要工作，因为我已经这么做过了……我不想太多陷入那些单调乏味的事情中，&他说。

Our relationship had become so etiolated and dull that we didn't even have proper fights.

我们的关系乏味到了我们都不能有一次像样的争吵。

Breath, muscle contraction of the buttocks; arch body, as far as possible to hold his head, right leg straight towards the ceiling (peg-leg knee in order to avoid muscle tension).

呼气，收缩臀部肌肉；拱起身体，尽量抬起头来，右腿伸直朝向天花板（膝微屈，以避免肌肉紧张）。

The cost of moving grain food products was unchanged from May, but year over year are up 8%.

粮食产品的运输费用与5月份相比没有变化，但却比去年同期高8％。