沉闷

" Let us mix this thickened Boeotian air with the dark voluptuousness of the Etruscans; such as a reality would then extort from us a world of myths in which Uranus, Kronos and Zeus and the struggles of the Titans would seem like a relief; in this brooding atmosphere, combat is salvation and deliverance, the cruelty of the victory is the pinnacle of life's jubilation...."

具言为在 Hesiod 文字的沉闷空气中，诸神的战争似乎是一种救赎。这样的文化氛围下，现实生活中的战争似乎也是一种救赎，在胜利当中饱尝的血腥成了生命喜悦的最高点。一个暴露在战争和残忍下的世界让人感到对存在的厌恶，已至觉得存在是一种惩罚，存在等于负债。

Is it bordering on being boring and mundane?

是它接壤的被沉闷和世俗？

And once you've broken the boredom barrier, there's still lots of work to be done.

一旦你打破了沉闷的障碍，但仍有很多工作要做。

Well, I have, and let me tell you, they are as boring as they get.

那么，我有，让我告诉你，他们是作为沉闷，因为他们得到的。

Presumably if all life on Earth were extinguished, the Earth's atmosphere would fall back to a persistent equilibrium, and become as boringly predictable as Mars and Venus.

可能要等地球上所有的生命都寂灭之后，地球的大气才会回降至持续平衡状态，变得像火星和金星那样沉闷。

Just be aware of the repercussions of any brash actions you take now.

你会很有兴趣去打破任何你觉得沉闷的事情，只要你了解任何仓促行为所带来的后果。

The second worker was thinking, I have to do that bricklaying work every day.

第二个工人心里想："每天就是在砌砖，真是沉闷得叫人发疯。"

But the text itself, although grammatically correct, was disappointingly bland, flat, characterless.

然而这本书尽管语法正确，内容却令人失望，乏味，沉闷，毫无特色。

Your team are becoming dauntingly efficient but with each machine-like victory they are becoming a notch more charmless, and in this they are only keeping pace with you.

你的球队是有那么一点效率去赢得那些机械的胜利，不过你们胜利的方式几乎成了沉闷和无趣的代名词。当然，这个和你的性格也蛮相符。

It's a long conversation, more soporific than Socratic, and brimming with parental chiding, generational conflict and invocations of Vietnam.

不过，这部电影的情节还要复杂的多。它另有两条叙事的线索，其中，最为沉闷的情节出现在一个狭小封闭的空间里。

In the negative and interrogative forms, of course, this is identical to the non-emphatic forms.

。但是，在否定句或疑问句里，这种带有"do"的方法表达的效果却没有什么强调的意思。

Go down on one's knees;kneel down

屈膝跪下。。。下跪祈祷