枯燥无味

Apps designed specifically for the iPad get good reviews, particularly Marvel Comics, which Boing Boing describes as 'game changing,' and an app about the periodic table of the elements, which might not sound interesting but which is apparently ' dazzling ' and 'not like any e-book you've seen,' according to Boing Boing and USA Today.

专为iPad设计的应用程序获得了好评，特别是&惊奇漫画&和一款有关元素周期表的程序。Boing Boing网站称&惊奇漫画&是革命性的。元素周期表程序听起来可能枯燥无味，不过据Boing Boing说，它显然&让人眼前一亮&，&和你见过的电子书不同&。

Some people do crosswords and others read books, There are boring old adults wherever we look.

有些人在做着填字游戏，有些人在看书，放眼过去，尽是枯燥无味的成年人。

After analyzing the current conditions of English grammar teaching and comparing the methods of grammar translation with communicative approach, this paper sets forth the applications of communicative approach in grammar teaching to improve the grammar of college English learners.

交际法在语法教学中的运用，革除了枯燥无味讲语法的旧习。本文针对语法教学的现状，通过传统的语法-翻译法与交际法的对比，论述交际法的理论体系，提出运用模拟情境、角色扮演、小组讨论等交际教学法进行语法教学，以提高大学生对英语语法的掌握。

Early the third morning Tom Sawyer wisely went poking among some old empty hogsheads down behind the abandoned slaughter-house, and in one of them he found the refugee.

说话枯燥无味没关系，但谈吐要斯文，他无论走到那里，文明都束缚着他的手脚。

Without amusements it is wearisome, like a long journey where there are no inns: manifold knowledge gives manifold leasure.

正如长途旅行中没有栖身之所，缺乏娱乐委实令人觉得枯燥无味而厌倦：丰富的知识使生活变得多姿多彩。

A speaker who puts some relevant and well-told jokes into his or her speech will be appreciated by the audience who are often bored with bland presentations and are crying out for a little entertainment.

如果一个演讲者将一些相关的或大家熟知的笑话放入到她的演讲中，那么她会受到那些经常听枯燥无味的报告而厌烦的听众的赏识，他们会为一小段时间的消遣而欢呼。

7All the critical twiddle-twaddle about style and form is mere impertinence and mostly dull jargon.

所有这些有关文体和体裁的蠢话，只是些风马牛不相尽够胡扯，多半是枯燥无味，玩弄术语的评论。

These tasks are less narrowly specialised than those demanded of the worker in a mass-production system, and this variety enables the worker to escape from the soul-destroying repetition of the pure assembly line.

相比大批量生产，这些要求的工人专业化程度较低，并且这种工作的多样化也使得工人能避免纯粹组装线的枯燥无味的重复。

He said that life is a colorful road which is such an ornament of life that we have been desperately running towards the end without any decorations; that the road is of so much body and so little soul in deep sleep that he has to throw his soul far into the boring life; bums are always waiting so long so that the soul could have caught up with the body.

他说人生是一条多彩路，而生活只是路的装饰；我们拼命地向着路的终点奔跑，却没有带上生活这个装饰品；路上有太多的躯体，而很少有的灵魂却在沉睡；流浪者因为把自己的灵魂丢得太远，生活才显得枯燥无味；流浪是一种长久期待，等着灵魂能追上躯体。

There is never a dull moment when your Gemini dad is in the room.

只要有双子座爸爸在大家都不会感到枯燥无味。

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。