| 单词 | 枯燥 |
| 释义 | 〔dull〕Arousing no interest or curiosity; boring:枯燥的：引不起兴趣或好奇的；乏味的：〔dull〕a humdrum conversation;枯燥冗长的对话；〔inanimate〕Not animated or energetic; dull.无生气的：没有活力或精力的；枯燥的〔unreadable〕Not interesting; dull:枯燥的：没什么意思的；枯燥的：〔desiccate〕Lacking spirit or animation; arid:枯燥的：缺乏活力的；乏味的：〔wade〕waded through a boring report.不耐烦地听一个枯燥的报告〔dryasdust〕A dull, pedantic speaker or writer.学究：枯燥而迂腐的讲话人或作者〔insipid〕Lacking excitement, stimulation, or interest; dull.枯燥无味的：缺乏激情、刺激或兴趣的；枯燥的〔debunk〕One can readily see thatdebunk is constructed from the prefix de-, meaning "to remove,” and the wordbunk. But what is the origin of the wordbunk, denoting the nonsense that is to be removed? Bunk came from a place where much bunk has originated, the United States Congress.During the 16th Congress (1819-1821) Felix Walker, a representative from western North Carolina whose district included Buncombe County, continued on with a dull speech in the face of protests by his colleagues.Walker replied he had felt obligated "to make a speech for Buncombe.”Such a masterful symbol for empty talk could not be ignored by the speakers of the language,andBuncombe, actually spelled Bunkum in its first recorded appearance in 1828 and later shortened tobunk, became synonymous with claptrap. The response to all this bunk seems to have been delayed,fordebunk is not recorded until 1923. 可以很容易地看出debunk 是由前缀 de-， 表“去掉”和单词bunk 构成的。 可是单词bunk 表示“要除去的无稽之谈”的含意的起源是什么呢? Bunk 来自美国国会，一个产生大量空话、假话的地方。在第16届国会期间(1819-1821年），一个来自北卡罗来纳州西部（其区域包括邦克姆县）的代表费列克斯·沃尔克面对其同僚们的抗议，而进行持续冗长枯燥的演讲，沃尔克说他有责任“为邦克姆发表演说”。这种说空话的杰作是不会被说英语的人忽视的。Buncombe 实际上在1828年第一次被记载时拼作 Bunkum ， 后来缩写成Bunk 并成为 claptrap 的同义词。 对这空话的反应似乎被耽搁了，因为debunk 直到1923年才被记录下来 〔scutwork〕Monotonous work or menial tasks that have to be done usually as part of a large, complex job or project.枯燥的粗活：单调的工作或卑微的任务，通常作为某项巨大的、复杂的工作或项目的一部分〔slow〕Lacking liveliness or interest; boring:枯燥的，乏味的：缺少活力或兴趣的；乏味的：〔alienate〕The numbing labor tended to alienate workers.枯燥的工作可以使工人变得麻木〔acerbic〕"At times, the playwright allows an acerbic tone to pierce through otherwise arid or flowery prose"(Alvin Klein)See Synonyms at bitter “有时，剧作家在枯燥或华丽的散文中插入刻薄的语调”(阿尔文·克莱因) 参见 bitter〔work〕 Drudgery suggests dull, wearisome, or monotonous work: Drudgery 表明枯燥的、使人疲倦的或单调无味的工作： 〔scut〕Routine or tedious work often viewed as menial.枯燥的粗活：通常被视为卑贱的日常工作或乏味劳动〔arid〕Lacking interest or feeling; lifeless and dull:枯燥的：缺乏兴趣或感情；无生气和乏味：〔skip〕skipped through the list hurriedly; skipping over the dull passages in the novel.迅速地跳读名单；跳过小说中枯燥的段落〔truth〕"merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative" (W.S. Gilbert). “试图赋予一原本枯燥而不可信的叙述以艺术真实性的区区确定性细节” (W.S.吉尔伯特）〔rut〕A fixed, usually boring routine.老一套：固定的，通常指枯燥的老规矩〔work〕"the drudgery of penning definitions and marking quotations for transcription" (Macaulay). “写定义和标明翻译用引言的枯燥工作” （麦考利）。〔institutional〕Characteristic or suggestive of an institution, especially in being uniform, dull, or unimaginative:单调为主的：为机构特有或暗含的，特别指统一，枯燥，缺乏想象力的：〔oxymoron〕mōros [foolish, dull] mōros [呆的，枯燥的] 〔dusty〕the dusty precepts of a bygone era.过去时代的枯燥戒律〔arid〕a technically perfect but arid musical performance.一场技术上完美但枯燥的音乐演出〔dry〕a dry lecture filled with trivial details.充满琐碎细节的枯燥演讲〔bunkum〕After Buncombe , a county of western North Carolina, from a remark made around 1820 by its congressman, who felt obligated to give a dull speech "for Buncombe" 源自 邦康比 ，北卡罗来纳州西部一县，源自1820年国会的短评，他们认为有必要做一次枯燥的“哗众取宠”演说 〔deadly〕Dull, tedious, and boring:枯燥的、沉闷乏味的：〔oscillate〕The rather dry wordoscillate may become a bit less dry as we learn its story. It is possible that it goes back to the Latin wordōscillum, a diminutive ofōs, "mouth,” meaning "small mouth.” In a passage in theGeorgics, Virgil applies the word to a small mask of Bacchus hung from trees to move back and forth in the breeze.From this wordōscillum may have come another word ōscillum, meaning "something, such as a swing, that moves up and down or back and forth.”And thisōscillum was the source of the verb ōscillāre, "to ride in a swing,” and the noun (from the verb) ōscillātio, "the action of swinging or oscillating.” The words have given us, respectively, our verboscillate, first recorded in 1726, and our noun oscillation, first recorded in 1658. The next time one sees something oscillating,one might think of that small mask of Bacchus swinging from a pine tree in the Roman countryside.当我们了解了与oscillate 有关的传说时，这个较为枯燥的词就会变得不那么干巴巴的了。 此词可被追溯到一个拉丁词oscillum， 可简写成os， “嘴”，意为“小嘴”。 在农事诗集 的一节中， 维吉尔用这个词指挂在树上在微风中来回摆动的酒神巴克斯的小假面具。从oscillum 一词可以得出另一词 oscillum， 指“前后或上下摆动的某物，如秋千。”而这里的oscillum 便是意为“在秋千上摆动”的动词 oscillare 和意为“摆动或摇动的动作”的名词（从动词来） oscillatio 的词源。 从这些单词中分别得出了我们今天所用的动词oscillation （首次记录于1726年）和名词 oscillation （首次记录于1658年）。 以后若看见物体在摆动，就很可能会想起古罗马乡间一棵松树上摇来晃去的巴克斯的小假面具了〔wear〕To pass gradually or tediously:逐渐或枯燥地通过：〔vapid〕Lacking liveliness, animation, or interest; dull:无趣味的：缺乏活力、生气或兴趣的；枯燥的：〔doldrums〕from dul [dull] * see dull 源自 dul [枯燥] * 参见 dull |
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