枯燥无味

The lecture was as dull as ditchwater.

这个学术报告枯燥无味。

I'm tired of his dreary speech.

我厌倦了他的枯燥无味的演说。

Ann: It is always the dryasdust datum and numbers every day.

每天都是枯燥无味的数字和数据。

I want my presentation to be lively and interesting. If it is boring and difficult to understand, it will be a dud.

不过Larry，你这人这麼幽默，不用听我就知道，你的报告肯定不会枯燥无味的。

She did it because it was pleasant and a relief from dulness of the home over which her husband brooded.

她去拜访她们，因为这使她感到愉快，她还可以摆脱一下那个枯燥无味的家和她那个守在家里发呆的丈夫。

And one thing that's hard to convey is how boring business seemed in the 1960s and 1970s.

还有一件事让人难以相信的是做生意在60年代和70年代是多么枯燥无味。

He has opinions on almost everything but most of them are pretty insipid .

他几乎对每件事都有意见但大部分都枯燥无味。

Vera observed her guests ' expressions glazing over with boredom at the insipidity of the conversation .

她注意到客人们由于对枯燥无味的谈话感到厌烦，脸上露出了无精打采的样子。

The insipidity of the meeting was exactly such as Elinor had expected.

聚会的枯燥无味恰如埃莉诺预料的。

The insipidity of the meeting was exactly such as Elinor had expected; it produced not one novelty of thought or expression

聚会正如埃莉诺所预料的那样枯燥无味，它在思想和言谈方面都没有表现出任何新颖之处。

We have no common name for a mime of Sophron or Xenarchus and a Socratic Conversation; and we should still be without one even if the imitation in the two instances were in trimeters or elegiacs or some other kind of verse--though it is the way with people to tack on 'poet' to the name of a metre, and talk of elegiac-poets and epic-poets, thinking that they call them poets not by reason of the imitative nature of their work, but indiscriminately by reason of the metre they write in.

索夫农 、森那库斯和苏格拉底式的对话采用的模仿没有一个公共的名称；三音步诗、挽歌体或其他类型的诗的模仿也没有——人们把&诗人&这一名词和格律名称结合到一起，称之为挽歌体诗人或者史诗诗人，他们被称为诗人，似乎只是因为遵守格律写作，而非他们作品的模仿本质。

The relationship between communicative competence and grammar teaching should be that of the ends and the means.

交际能力和语法的关系应该是目标与途径的关系。