第10课：无趣的 - 1

【迷你小对话】

A: The applied mathematics conference was absolutely dry. Hardly an interesting word was said.
B: Yes, those are totally arid of interest. What tedious material to have to listen to all day!
A: That’s right. And most of the speakers took that lifeless subject and made it worse.
B: It was totally monotonous. I was glad to get away from there.

A: 这次的应用数学讨论会实在是无聊，一点有意思的东西都没有涉及到。
B: 可不是，太枯燥无味了。整天听些冗长乏味的材料，真没劲。
A: 没错，更糟糕的是大多数发言者选的还都是些毫无生气的话题。
B: 简直是单调极了。幸好我从那儿逃出来了。

【语言点精讲】

dry: 干巴巴的，枯燥乏味的。
arid: 枯燥无味的。
tedious: 单调乏味的；令人生厌的；罗嗦的。
lifeless: 没有生气的；单调的；沉闷的。
monotonous: 单调没有变化的。