Now these are going to be sort of dreary, boring, typical Martin lectures; dreary and boring historical surveys.

会比较沉闷，无聊，典型的Martin课程;,沉闷无聊的历史回顾。

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that he is not going to pick up his phone, that just the day looks very dreary and rainy even when it's sunny outside.

他都不想接电话，即便外面艳阳高照，每一天对他来说都是沉闷的阴雨天。

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being entertaining shouldn't be dreary and if anything is clearly full of purposes of entertaining It's done well enough. It becomes an art.

但是娱乐不一定就要粗俗,一个东西，只要明显带有,娱乐的目的,而且很受欢迎的话，那它就成了艺术。

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