单词	tedium
释义	tediumte‧di‧um /ˈtiːdiəm/ noun [uncountable] Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS And ask any worker about the treadmill, the maddening tedium. For one thing it is devoid of the relentless lilt and terminological tedium of the professional programme writer. She wanted to be left alone, but now the tedium of her resolutely normal life is plastered across 190 pages. Sometimes I shave my legs, amazed at the majestic tedium of the activity. The average work week was nearly eighty hours of either backbreaking labor or mind-numbing tedium. The only things to break the dusty tedium are distant mountains, ragged scars on the horizon. To relieve the tedium of the days they sang, or told stories to Enoch. Two-thirty was a time of blank arrest; a time of tedium, with all the dangers tedium carries at its heart. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY► relieve the tedium  We sang while we worked, to relieve the tedium. COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSVERB► relieve · To relieve the tedium of the days they sang, or told stories to Enoch.· She would have welcomed a raging tempest or a blistering drought - anything to relieve the endless tedium of her situation.· Stress also relieves the tedium of everyday life. the feeling of being bored because the things you are doing are not interesting and continue for a long time without changing SYN  boredom:  We sang while we worked, to relieve the tedium.tedium of the tedium of everyday life
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