Irksome

(a.) Wearisome; tedious; disagreeable or troublesome by reason of long continuance or repetition; as, irksome hours; irksome tasks.

(a.) Weary; vexed; uneasy.

汉丽埃塔整理

• Suspense is irksome, disappointment bitter. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Mr. Collins, to be sure, was neither sensible nor agreeable; his society was irksome, and his attachment to her must be imaginary. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• Labor in loneliness is irksome. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• No office, no devotion, no watching was irksome to her, as it regarded him. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Most of the time he was monkeying with the batteries and circuits, and devising things to make the work of telegraphy less irksome. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• If she did not complain of solitude, solitude, however continued, could not be irksome to her. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Again, and more intensely than ever, she desired a fixed occupation, no matter how onerous, how irksome. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• It was irksome to sit; the current of reflection ran rapidly through her mind; to-night she was mutely excited. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• My present state is miserably irksome. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• Unless I had been animated by an almost supernatural enthusiasm, my application to this study would have been irksome, and almost intolerable. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• Why, then, does he make these long journeys, which must be exceedingly irksome to him, and who is it that he visits? 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• They played no blind-man's buff; they dealt not in whist; they shirked not the irksome journal, for alas! 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• She was confined for some days to the house; but never had any confinement been less irksome. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• You must begin life, he said: you are seventeen, and longer delay would render the necessary apprenticeship more and more irksome. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.

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