英 [ˈtaɪəsəm] 美 [ˈtaɪərsəm]
adj. 烦人的，令人厌烦的
tiresome /ˈtaɪəsəm/ CET6+ TEM4
形容词 If you describe someone or something as tiresome, you mean that you find them irritating or boring. 讨厌的; 无聊的
...the tiresome old lady next door.
…隔壁的那个讨厌的老妇人。
... uncertain 不确定的 tiresome 讨厌的，令人厌倦的 awkward 笨拙的，不舒服的 ...
... tired疲劳的；累的 tiresome使人疲劳的；讨厌的；令人厌倦的 total总的；全体的 ...
... irksome 令人厌恶的, 讨厌的, 令人厌烦的 tiresome 无聊的, 烦人的 humdrum 单调的，平凡的：缺少变化或刺激的；无生气的 0 ...
... sympathetic adj. 同情的；交感神经的；共鸣的；赞同的；和谐的；合意的 gratifying adj. 悦人的；令人满足的 tiresome adj. 烦人的，无聊的；令人讨厌的 ...
Now the tiresome chirping of a cricket that no human ingenuity could locate, began.
这时，一只蟋蟀开始发出烦人的唧唧声，而人们根本找不到它在哪。
The children were being very tiresome.
这些孩子非常讨人嫌。
Buying a house can be a very tiresome business.
买房子会是件很麻烦的事。
From the fact that after 100,000 years or a million years or whatever it is, eventually life would grow tiresome, that hardly shows that life has grown tiresome after 50 years or 80 years or 100.
虽然经过十万年,或一百万年后，生命会变得了无生趣，但那不能说明经过50，80，百年后,生命会变得无趣。
死亡课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课
If you go down into France, if you go to la belle France, the painting is dominated by nobles who want pictures of themselves, or the tiresome Sun King and all his sort of miserable and all his sort of miserablehangers-on, very rich, miserable hangers-on.
如果你到了法国,"美丽"的法兰西,这些画作被,那些想为自己留像的士绅们所拥有,或者被令人讨厌的"太阳王",以及他可悲的走狗们,富有但却可悲的走狗们所拥有
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That kind of woman would find you tiresome, infuriating and not worth her time.
To do this, they must outgrow their tiresome, unthinking opposition to any and all tax increases.
What a tiresome exercise in the worst kind of political sophistry it has all become.