The adverb of 'tedious': in a way that drags on and bores you. It works in three places.

The adverb of 'tedious''tedious'的副詞：in a way that drags on and bores you意思是拖拖拉拉、讓人厭煩的那種方式。It works in three places它有三種用法。

Before an adjective, it is a complaint dressed as a measurement — 'tediously long', 'tediously slow', 'tediously familiar' — telling you both that there is a lot of the thing and that the speaker is fed up with it.

Before an adjective放在形容詞前面時，it is a complaint dressed as a measurement它是一種偽裝成程度描述的抱怨——'tediously long', 'tediously slow', 'tediously familiar'像'tediously long'、'tediously slow'、'tediously familiar'——telling you both that there is a lot of the thing and that the speaker is fed up with it同時告訴你這個東西很多，而且說話的人已經受夠了。

With a verb, it describes how something is done or how it proceeds: 'The meeting dragged tediously on.' And in the useful pair 'tediously but necessarily' or 'slowly and tediously', it admits the work was dull while defending it as worth doing.

With a verb跟動詞連用時，it describes how something is done or how it proceeds它形容一件事是怎麼做的，或怎麼進行的：'The meeting dragged tediously on.'「The meeting dragged tediously on.」 And in the useful pair 'tediously but necessarily' or 'slowly and tediously'而在'tediously but necessarily'或'slowly and tediously'這種好用的搭配裡，it admits the work was dull while defending it as worth doing它一邊承認工作很枯燥，一邊又替它辯護說值得做。

It is a formal, written-feeling word — you find it in reviews, essays, and reports far more than in conversation, where people simply say 'so slow' or 'it went on forever'. A small point worth knowing: writers often use it as gentle self-mockery about their own careful work ('I checked each line tediously'), where it means painstaking as much as boring.

It is a formal, written-feeling word它是一個正式、偏書面感的詞——you find it in reviews, essays, and reports far more than in conversation你會在評論、文章，和報告裡看到它，遠比在對話裡多，where people simply say 'so slow' or 'it went on forever'對話裡人們就只會說'so slow'或'it went on forever'。A small point worth knowing一個值得知道的小地方：writers often use it as gentle self-mockery about their own careful work作家常常用它來輕輕自嘲自己做事有多仔細 ('I checked each line tediously')（像'I checked each line tediously'），where it means painstaking as much as boring這時候它的意思是「用心」不亞於「無聊」。