be engaged in humdrum tasks

从事一般庸庸碌碌的工作.

Making tomato sauce was humdrum do mestic work that did not contribute to my goals and ,more important, wasn’t scheduled.

而做番茄酱只是无聊时做的家务，对我的工作没什么帮助;更重要的是这并不在我的计划之内。

live (lead) a humdrum life

过着单调无味的生活.

The accountant said it was the most humdrum day that she had ever passed.

会计师说这是她所度过的最无聊的一天。

Her life is humdrum

她的生活平平淡淡

She led a humdrum existence-all work and no play.

她过着相当单调的生活--只有工作，没有玩乐。

At this task she laboured incessantly for some time, finding relief from her own nervous fears and imaginings in the humdrum , mechanical movement of the machine.

她这么手脚不停地干了一会儿。在机器的单调刻板运动中，她的心情松弛了一点，不再提心吊胆，紧张不安了。

She was glad to be out of the flat, because already she felt that it was a narrow, humdrum place, and that interest and joy lay elsewhere.

离开公寓到外面走走，使她心情舒畅，因为她已经感到那个家狭隘单调，毫无趣味和欢乐可言。

It was a narrow, humdrum place

那是个狭窄、枯燥的地方。

We should hesitate to admit this if it were merely a question of humdrum dwellers on this corner of the universe called Earth

如果这仅仅是这个叫做地球的宇宙之中的角落里无聊居民的问题，我们在承认这一点时会犹豫不决。

Their life consist of the humdrum activity of everyday existence.

他们的生活由日常生存的平凡活动所构成。

They all appeared to be lost in the humdrum and routine of their work

他们好象一个个都被埋在日常单调的工作当中了。

They may marry,and sink to the humdrum of other old marry people.

他们可能结婚，然後陷于像那些老年夫妻一样的平凡。

I wish the two of them could be included in these rather humdrum tapestries

我希望在这些太单调乏味的挂毯中能加进他们两人的肖像。

Imagination raises a man above the humdrum of life

想象使人从单调无聊的生活中解脱出来。

||KENTISH TOWN ROAD is a humdrum high street in north London.|| It contains pawnbrokers, pound shops, hairdressers and some long-in-the-tooth hardware stores. Unlike Camden Town to the south, full of bars and tattoo parlours, or Hampstead to the west, with its bistros and boutique clothing shops, little seems to have changed on the street for the past three decades. “It’s never quite got going,” admits Gary McLaren, a local bookseller. Yet the lack of change is odd—and hints at some of the strangeness of London.

||1:肯特镇路（KENTISH TOWN ROAD）是伦敦北部的一条颇显乏味的街道。||||2:这这条街上有当铺、一磅店（像中国的一元店）、理发店和一些古老的五金店。||3:不似南部尽是酒吧和纹身店的卡登姆镇和西部满是夜总会与精品服饰店的汉普斯蒂德，30年来肯特镇路似乎并无改变。||4:当地的一位书店老板Gary McLaren 坦诚，“它从未真正改变。”||5:但是欠缺改变是如此之怪异—而且这暗示了伦敦的些许陌生感。

||1:Those members attempting wit—and there are some—face a more humdrum reality.||2:Often they address a chamber that is mostly empty.||3:Chancellor Angela Merkel and her ministers, if present at all, sit diagonally behind the orators, so that they can ignore them and catch up on some reading.||4:This may explain why many of Berlin’s political wonks go online for their thrills, watching prime minister’s questions in Britain’s House of Commons.||5:How else to have fun.

||1:那些领军人物们用仅剩的一些智慧来面另一个更加单调的现实。||2:他们经常在一个几乎空无一人的屋子里演讲。||3:总理安吉拉·默克尔和她的部长们如果出席了的话一般会坐在演说者的斜后面，这样他们就可以忽略那些演说家并且可以自己阅读自己的。||4:这或许可以解释为什么很多柏林的政治家们喜欢在网上看着总理在英国下议院提问时自娱自乐。||5:除了这样他们还有别的方式来寻开心吗。

||1:The job of capital markets is to process information so that savings flow to the best projects and firms.||2:That makes high finance sound simple; in reality it is dynamic and intoxicating.||3:It reflects a changing world.||4:Today’s markets, for instance, are grappling with a trade war and low interest rates.||5:But it also reflects changes within finance, which constantly reinvents itself in a perpetual struggle to gain a competitive edge.||6:As our Briefing reports, the latest revolution is in full swing.||7:Machines are taking control of investing—not just the humdrum buying and selling of securities, but also the commanding heights of monitoring the economy and allocating capital.

||1:资本市场的工作是处理信息，使储蓄流向最好的项目和公司。||2:这使得高级金融听起来很简单；实际上，它是动态的、令人陶醉的。||3:它反映了一个不断变化的世界。||4:例如，如今的市场正努力应对贸易战和低利率。||5:但它也反映了金融内部的变化，在不断的竞争中不断重塑自己，以获得竞争优势。||6:正如简报所述，最新的革命正在全面展开。||7:机器正在控制投资——不仅仅是单调的证券买卖，也是监管经济和资本配置的制高点。

Genome Biology, BMC’s flagship journal, which accepts just one paper in ten, passes 40% of the sound but humdrum sort it spurns to its less prestigious sister publications with reviews attached, says Matthew Cockerill, the group’s managing director.

BMC的重点期刊《基因生物学》，文章接收率只有10%，该期刊 40%的比较不错但却单调的被拒文章会转投给比它名气稍小的子期刊，这些文章都附有评审报告，出版中心的总经理马修·柯克里尔说到。

But clients no longer want to pay fat fees for a bit of strategic advice from a senior partner and a lot of humdrum work from neophytes.

但是委托人应经不再想为从一个高级合作伙伴那得到一点战略建议和从一个初学者那得到许多单点无聊的工作而付出巨额费用。

The problem with putting yourself on a pedestal is that it is hard to get down from it and engage in the humdrum work of politics.

把自己置于受人崇拜的地位的问题是，你很难降下身段，屈身投入到单调的政治工作中去。

Companies use the term “commodity business” to describe humdrum , low-margin activities.

厂商使用“过度竞争行业”来形容长期乏味、利润低下的业务。

By never letting life get static, this woman busts the myth that being married means feeling humdrum .

从不让生活变得停滞不前，这样的女人打破了结婚就意味着单调无聊的无稽之谈。

Humdrum office life was briefly interrupted with a little drama.

单调的办公室生活被一场小小的剧目短暂打断了。

But at the more humdrum end of the business, smaller presses for simple metal shapes, Chinese competition is hurting Galdabini.

但在行业略为低端的领域，即制造简单金属形状的更小的冲压件方面，中国的竞争者正打击这家公司。

A couple of weeks ago I dreamt that a page editor asked me to do some humdrum subbing as he was too busy.

几周前，我梦到一位版面编辑要求我替他做一些单调的工作，因为他太忙。

Mr Ganesh’s job, issuing Indian visas to Afghans, often for medical treatment, sounds humdrum .

加内甚的工作是发放到阿富汗的印度签证（大部分是医疗签证），这样的工作听起来十分单调。

Nevada now needs humdrum jobs more than glitzy casinos.

内华达眼下更需要普通的就业岗位而不是光彩夺目的赌场。

There are also few new experiences for you, just the humdrum of daily life and the loneliness of having to get on with it on your own.

你也会拥有一些新的体验--平凡的日常生活、和依靠自己继续进行它的寂寞。

Municipal committees in rebel-held towns were assigned the basic tasks of humdrum administration.

叛军占领城镇的市政委员会负责一般行政的基本任务。