Monotony

(noun.) constancy of tone or pitch or inflection.

(noun.) the quality of wearisome constancy, routine, and lack of variety; 'he had never grown accustomed to the monotony of his work'; 'he was sick of the humdrum of his fellow prisoners'; 'he hated the sameness of the food the college served'.

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• The monotony was unbroken. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• Often as not they disguise it under heroic phrases and still louder affirmation, just as most of us hide our cowardly submission to monotony under some word like duty, loyalty, conscience. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• It seemed like a rising above the dreariness of actuality, the monotony of contingencies. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• To me the only death is monotony. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• Monotony till midnight. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The Bank offered no violence to the wholesome monotony of the town. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• I don't know; but I feel monotony and death to be almost the same. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The delicious monotony of life in our calm seclusion flowed on with me, like a smooth stream with a swimmer who glides down the current. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Why, it was but now that you were dwelling in the advantages of a monotony of two. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• I always say to Ellen: Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• Anything to vary this detestable monotony. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• The monotony of his occupation soothed him, and was in itself a pleasure. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• No it is not,' said Mrs Wilfer, with the same impressive monotony. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• He also relieved the monotony of office-work by fitting up the battery circuits to play jokes on his fellow-operators, and to deal with the vermin that infested the premises. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Watch the crowds in front of a bulletin board, finding a vicarious excitement and an abstract relief from the monotony of their own lives. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.

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