杰克确实讨厌历史，他认为它很乏味。

Jack really hates history. He thinks it's boring.

youdao

我的工作很乏味，这正是它如此令人痛苦的原因。

My job was predictable, and that was part of what made it so painful.

youdao

我本以为这本书很乏味，但正好相反，它竟让人着迷。

I had expected the book to be boring, but on the contrary it was fascinating.

youdao

And when you reread this poem and you look at it in your discussion section, you may want to think about the tenses it sounds tedious but I am convinced that it's not tedious the tenses of the verbs that Milton's using.

当你重新读这首诗,并在讨论时再看它的时候，你可能会思考它的时态,这听起来很乏味，但我确信,弥尔顿用的动词的时态一点都不乏味。

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