詞彙精選：monotonous的用法和辨析

一、詳細釋義：

adj.

單調的，無抑揚頓挫的；無變化的，枯燥無味的

例句：

She has a very monotonous voice; she should have it modulated.

她的聲音很單調，應該加以調整。

例句：

The food may get a bit monotonous, but there'll be enough of it.

飯菜可能會有些單一，但管夠。

二、詞義辨析：

dull,tedious,monotonous,dreary

這些形容詞均表示“單調的、乏味的、厭煩的”之意。dull指缺乏鮮明、吸引力或情趣而顯得乏味、沉悶。tedious側重指文章、演講、演出等冗長乏味或環境等單調、沉悶，缺乏活力，使感到不舒服。monotonous指沒有變化、重複單調的。dreary側重無趣味的，不活潑的事或思想狀態。

三、參考例句：

I do not like my monotonous work.

我不喜歡我那單調乏味的工作。

The preacher's monotonous voice put me to sleep.

傳教士單調的聲音催我入眠。

She has a very monotonous voice; she should have it modulated.

她的聲音很單調，應該加以調整。

It was, for example, long thought that the DNA molecules were of monotonous regularity.

長期以來認爲，分子量很大的DNA分子具有嚴格規律性。

The explorer live on a monotonous diet of bean and rice.

探險者靠吃豆子和米飯這些單調的食物爲生。

The explorer lives on a monotonous diet of bean and rice.

探險者靠吃豆子和米飯這些單調的食物爲生。

There seems to be nothing there but languid and monotonous smoke.

那兒似乎什麼都沒有，只有那死氣沉沉的單調的煤煙。

He spoilt the poem by reading it in a monotonous voice.

這首詩在他單調的聲音朗讀下黯然失色。

The same old favourites recur year in year out with monotonous regularity.

一些相同的老嗜好年復一年地以單調的規律重現。

Nevertheless this bird is not so monotonous a singer as he is reputed.

儘管如此，這種鳥的鳴叫也並沒有像人們所說的那樣單調。