她的小说具有中年人的保守，而且枯燥乏味。

Her novels are middle-aged and boring.

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

在英国人当中，年长和资历本身并没有什么权威性：事实上，现代生活发展飞快，老年人常显得乏味又过时。

Old age and seniority alone do not command authority among the British: in fact modern life has been developing so fast that old people often appear tiresome and out of date.

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人则会以很多方式出现问题：懒惰的、怀有恶意的、咄咄逼人的、乏味的，以及情绪过于低落而让人高兴不起来的。

The people can be wrong in an assortment of ways: lazy, spiteful, bullying or just dull and too depressed themselves to spread much cheer.

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And these people--this is kind of boring-- but these people were in government between 1830 and 1848, and King Louis-Philippe, who was chased from the throne in February of 1848, was seen as progressive, he was seen as the bourgeois monarch but he was perfectly noble.

这些人有点乏味,他们在1830年到1848年执政,国王是路易·菲利普,他在1848年二月被王室追捕,他被视为进取者,被视为资产阶级的君主,但他完全是个贵族

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