humdrum
/ˈhʌmˌdrʌm/- Nghĩa tiếng Việt
- Đơn điệu (tẻ nhạt)
- Định nghĩa tiếng Anh
- Dull and always the same, day after day.
Ví dụ: After ten years the commute had become utterly humdrum.

C215 từ · Thành thạo
Từ vựng phân tích thói quen thay vì chỉ mô tả cuộc sống thường nhật như humdrum, quotidian, drudgery và ingrained, nói về sức mạnh của thói quen và sự nhàm chán nó mang lại.

Ví dụ: After ten years the commute had become utterly humdrum.

Ví dụ: Checking my phone first thing is completely ingrained now.

Ví dụ: He wrote about the quotidian rhythms of family life.

Ví dụ: The novel captures the workaday grind of city commuters.

Ví dụ: The film's banal dialogue made it hard to watch.

Ví dụ: He gave a perfunctory nod and carried on scrolling his phone.

Ví dụ: After a long week, I just want to vegetate on the sofa.

Ví dụ: Batch cooking on Sundays saves me from a lot of drudgery.

Ví dụ: Cleaning up after everyone feels like a thankless task.

Ví dụ: Nothing relieves the tedium of folding endless laundry.

Ví dụ: Years of toil kept the old house standing.

Ví dụ: Doing the school run every day is a real grind.

Ví dụ: He shuffled in bleary-eyed and knocked the milk over.

Ví dụ: Nothing could rouse him from bed before eleven on Sundays.

Ví dụ: The somnolent afternoon heat made everyone drowsy.
