例文・使い方で印象づける「monotonous」の覚え方

...The dull and monotonous sound of our steps, the cracking of the frost,and the feeble groans of the dying, were the only interruptions to thisdoleful and universal silence...

George Grote 「The Two Great Retreats of History」

... This rubbed up and down with the moistened hand produces a strong, hoarse, monotonous sound...

Gustavo Adolfo Becquer 「Legends, Tales and Poems」

...In the background of this broad and monotonous landscapesomething resembling a distant flock of sheep shone white on the slopeof a hill...

Vicente Blasco Ibáñez Frances Douglas 「The Blood of the Arena」

... The bell gave forth a dull and broken clang, which seemed like an echo of the wails of sorrow that peopled the huge building with their weird and monotonous sounds...

Baroness Orczy 「El Dorado」

... Life at Sofi was becoming sadly monotonous, and I determined to move my party across the river to camp on the uninhabited side...

Samuel White Baker 「In the Heart of Africa」

... During the last night we had been kept awake by the drumming and fifing, singing and shouting, weeping and howling, pulling at accordions and striking the monotonous Shingungo...

Richard F. Burton 「Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2」

...The blacks as they paddled sang a low monotonous song, more like a dirge...

W.H.G. Kingston 「The Two Supercargoes」

...We have two or threedrums, but the drummers have little skill, and thebeating is always the same monotonous sound...

James Richardson 「Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2」

...The good lady had talked for half an hour, and had brought a ray ofsunshine into the teacher's monotonous life, heretofore lighted only bythe uncertain lamp of high resolve...

Charles W. Chesnutt 「The House Behind the Cedars」

...It was becoming monotonous and dangerous...

W. E. Webb 「Buffalo Land」

...Call, a monotonous dzit; song, resemblestrill of Redpoll...

Frank M. Chapman 「Color Key to North American Birds」