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。