Unfortunately, the show was one of the dullest we have ever seen.

不幸的是这次演出是我们看过的演出中最没有意思的。

The best capacities are as much above this drudgery (that of acquiring book-learning)as the dullest are beneath it.--Hazlitt

对于获取书本知识这一苦事，下愚之人智力够不上，上智之人则不屑为。--哈兹利特

Even the dullest of the chivalry perceived that this was a plain case of "put up or shut up."

就连那些感觉最迟钝的骑士，都瞧出这回明明是得“拿出真凭实据，否则免开尊口了”。

Though all humanity be still enclosed in the shops, the thrill runs abroad. It is in the air. The dullest feel something which they may not always express or describe.

虽然身子还被关在车间和店铺，一种激动的气氛早已冲到外面，弥漫在空气中。即使那些最迟钝的人也会有所感觉，尽管他们不善表达或描述。

||1:Mr Lamb had a simple idea: to expose America’s public life to the public eye.||2:He persuaded the cable companies to pay for a public-service channel via a levy based on the number of their subscribers.||3:He got the House of Representatives to open its proceedings to the cameras (the Senate followed later).||4:The result has been some of the dullest television in history (think budget proceedings)but also some of the most riveting (like the Iran-Contra hearings).

||1:兰博的想法很简单：让美国民众了解公共事务。||2:他游说各地的有线电视公司通过向用户缴的订费来支付公益频道。||3:他还游说众议院安装摄像机，向民众公开会议的实时转播（参议院后来也采纳了）。||4:这样的做法使观众们目睹了一些有史以来最乏味的电视广播（比如预算程序），但同时也见证了一些十分吸引人的转播（像是伊朗门听证会)。

||1:This first volume takes the story from Mrs Thatcher’s childhood above a grocer’s shop in Grantham to victory in the Falklands war in 1982.||2:A second volume, “Herself Alone”, will tell the rest of the story.||3:Charles Moore, a veteran journalist and former editor of the weekly Spectator magazine and the Daily Telegraph, is proving the ideal biographer.||4:He has spent 16 years reading Mrs Thatcher’s private papers, to which he had unique access, and interviewing everyone who mattered.||5:But he also possesses the literary panache to bring the dullest sources to life.||6:He is close to his subject both ideologically and personally.||7:But he also acknowledges that she could be impossible, and often was: hectoring, bullying and interfering.

||1:在传记中，第一卷讲述了撒切尔夫人从格兰瑟姆市一个零售商女儿成长为赢得1982年马岛战争的铁娘子的故事。||2:第二卷《她自己》将讲述之后的故事。||3:作为周刊《旁观者》和《每日电讯报》的资深记者兼前任编辑，查尔斯摩尔就是一个完美的传记作者。||4:充分利用自己查阅撒切尔夫人私人文件的特权，摩尔花费了16年的时间来研究这些文件，并采访每一个相关人员。||5:但（所幸）他也拥有卓越的文学才华，能够将最枯燥的材料写得栩栩如生。||6:无论在思想上，还是私人交情上，摩尔都与撒切尔夫人十分亲近。||7:但他也承认，她有时候的确很难应付，并且她通常喜欢颐指气使、恃强凌弱、事事干涉。

They are also more likely to share unpaid work more equitably with men—or, at least, to be able to claim, as Rivers did, that the dullest chores can wait for another six months.

她们也会因此更愿意与男性平等分担无酬的工作，或者至少能像Rivers 那样宣称：最乏味的家务可以再等六个月。

Four years ago, the giant US money market funds seemed some of the dullest actors in the global financial scene.

4年前，庞大的美国货币市场基金似乎是全球金融业最不活跃的一些参与者。

It is an improbable scandal that features Rupert Murdoch’s humbling at the hands of Parliament as one of its dullest chapters.

鲁伯特•默多克（RupertMurdoch，通称老默多克）在议会面前卑躬屈膝显然不大可能是这一丑闻最无聊的一页。

Who could have anticipated that the dullest corner of the financial sector would have become an open hunting ground for fraudsters?

谁能料想到，金融业最晦暗的角落会成为骗子们公开的游猎场呢？

He could take the dullest technical specification, the processing speed of a laptop, and make grown audiences whimper with pleasure.

他能够用最枯燥的技术规格参数，比如笔记本的处理速度，让一群成年听众喜极而泣。

THE dullest bits of the many electronic devices people plug into mains sockets in their houses and offices are the power adaptors.

在人们接入家庭和办公室壁插座的众多电子设备中，电力适配器是最不起眼的一个部件。

What they don’t see is a lot of people enjoying an art form, and turning the dullest stretch of their day into a treat.

这些人忽视的是很多人正在欣赏一种艺术，而这种艺术能把每天中最无聊的时间变成一种享受。

Like a monk who found God by doing his menial chores with painstaking care, Allen has found meaning in the dullest tasks of our busy lives.

正如僧侣在辛勤地处理日常琐事的过程中发现了神的旨意，艾伦正是从我们日常最单调乏味的生活、工作中发现了人生的真意。