Definition of longueur in English:

longueur

noun lɒ̃(ŋ)ˈɡəːlɔŋˈɡər

1A tedious passage in a book, piece of music, etc.
（书或其他作品中）冗长乏味的部分
its brilliant comedy passages do not cancel out the occasional longueurs
喜剧部分精彩绝伦，但偶尔还是有些冗长乏味的闷场。
Example sentencesExamples
- That's how opera fans go about their business, collecting wayside works for the inevitable Wagnerian longueurs.
- Stillborn epigrams, mechanistic wordplay, and numbing longueurs feel like hapless actors' improvisations.
- This second half suffered from longueur, and finally ended with Bach's death.
- So good is it, that the longueurs of sitting through the first play evaporate within the first minute of sitting through the second, and you can't get better than that.
- It is certainly a film with its longueurs, and is often frustratingly opaque.
- Since then, the work has been performed in Chicago, where the composer made a few nips and tucks that were supposed to solve problems of pacing and the occasional longueur.
- Its war scenes aside, A Very Long Engagement has only the longueurs of Audrey Tautou in the part of Mathilde.
- Instead, it's got four good dances, a few good laughs, and not a few longueurs.
- The work has its longueurs, but it is worth waiting around for this inexpressibly limpid and lovely solo.
- The script, however, by David King, was no match for its actor, thick with longueurs and sitcom character development.
- It's to be expected, of course, that in a film of this length and ambition there will be missteps and longueurs.
- Despite a few longueurs, this latest episode has a thousand times more energy, more fun, more visual invention, more deliciously arch comic intelligence than anything comparable in the summer movie marketplace.
- None of the symphonic music of Rimsky-Korsakov, Rachmaninov, Delius, Richard Strauss or Skryabin is without longueurs.
- In the right production the longueurs don't seem to matter much - this score becomes more spellbinding each time I hear it.
- Even if there are occasional longueurs, the show's visual wit and intelligence remain impressive.
- Scenes swiftly follow each other in the three acts which last a total of only an hour and 45 minutes, and there are no unwelcome longueurs.
- The present performers shape the concerto's architecture well, and what seem like longueurs elsewhere don't seem tiresome at all here.
1. 1.1 A tedious period of time.
  沉闷的时光
  frustrated by the longueurs, many rail-users take to the roads instead

Origin

French, literally 'length'.

Rhymes

à deux, agent provocateur, astir, auteur, aver, bestir, blur, bon viveur, burr, Chandigarh, coiffeur, concur, confer, connoisseur, cordon-bleu, cri de cœur, cur, danseur, Darfur, defer, demur, de rigueur, deter, entrepreneur, er, err, farceur, faute de mieux, fir, flâneur, Fleur, force majeure, fur, hauteur, her, infer, inter, jongleur, Kerr, littérateur, masseur, Monseigneur, monsieur, Montesquieu, Montreux, murre, myrrh, occur, pas de deux, Pasteur, per, pisteur, poseur, pot-au-feu, prefer, prie-dieu, pudeur, purr, raconteur, rapporteur, refer, répétiteur, restaurateur, saboteur, sabreur, seigneur, Sher, shirr, sir, skirr, slur, souteneur, spur, stir, tant mieux, transfer, Ur, vieux jeu, voyageur, voyeur, were, whirr

Definition of longueur in US English:

longueur

nounlɔŋˈɡərlôNGˈɡər

A tedious passage in a book or other work.
（书或其他作品中）冗长乏味的部分
its brilliant comedy passages do not cancel out the occasional longueurs
喜剧部分精彩绝伦，但偶尔还是有些冗长乏味的闷场。
the last act is sometimes marred by longueur
最后一幕有时会因冗长沉闷的段落而留下缺憾。
Example sentencesExamples
- The work has its longueurs, but it is worth waiting around for this inexpressibly limpid and lovely solo.
- Scenes swiftly follow each other in the three acts which last a total of only an hour and 45 minutes, and there are no unwelcome longueurs.
- Since then, the work has been performed in Chicago, where the composer made a few nips and tucks that were supposed to solve problems of pacing and the occasional longueur.
- The present performers shape the concerto's architecture well, and what seem like longueurs elsewhere don't seem tiresome at all here.
- Stillborn epigrams, mechanistic wordplay, and numbing longueurs feel like hapless actors' improvisations.
- None of the symphonic music of Rimsky-Korsakov, Rachmaninov, Delius, Richard Strauss or Skryabin is without longueurs.
- The script, however, by David King, was no match for its actor, thick with longueurs and sitcom character development.
- It is certainly a film with its longueurs, and is often frustratingly opaque.
- That's how opera fans go about their business, collecting wayside works for the inevitable Wagnerian longueurs.
- In the right production the longueurs don't seem to matter much - this score becomes more spellbinding each time I hear it.
- Even if there are occasional longueurs, the show's visual wit and intelligence remain impressive.
- Its war scenes aside, A Very Long Engagement has only the longueurs of Audrey Tautou in the part of Mathilde.
- Despite a few longueurs, this latest episode has a thousand times more energy, more fun, more visual invention, more deliciously arch comic intelligence than anything comparable in the summer movie marketplace.
- It's to be expected, of course, that in a film of this length and ambition there will be missteps and longueurs.
- This second half suffered from longueur, and finally ended with Bach's death.
- So good is it, that the longueurs of sitting through the first play evaporate within the first minute of sitting through the second, and you can't get better than that.
- Instead, it's got four good dances, a few good laughs, and not a few longueurs.

Origin

French, literally ‘length’.

词汇	longueur
释义	Definition of longueur in English: longueur noun lɒ̃(ŋ)ˈɡəːlɔŋˈɡər 1A tedious passage in a book, piece of music, etc. （书或其他作品中）冗长乏味的部分 its brilliant comedy passages do not cancel out the occasional longueurs 喜剧部分精彩绝伦，但偶尔还是有些冗长乏味的闷场。 Example sentencesExamples That's how opera fans go about their business, collecting wayside works for the inevitable Wagnerian longueurs. Stillborn epigrams, mechanistic wordplay, and numbing longueurs feel like hapless actors' improvisations. This second half suffered from longueur, and finally ended with Bach's death. So good is it, that the longueurs of sitting through the first play evaporate within the first minute of sitting through the second, and you can't get better than that. It is certainly a film with its longueurs, and is often frustratingly opaque. Since then, the work has been performed in Chicago, where the composer made a few nips and tucks that were supposed to solve problems of pacing and the occasional longueur. Its war scenes aside, A Very Long Engagement has only the longueurs of Audrey Tautou in the part of Mathilde. Instead, it's got four good dances, a few good laughs, and not a few longueurs. The work has its longueurs, but it is worth waiting around for this inexpressibly limpid and lovely solo. The script, however, by David King, was no match for its actor, thick with longueurs and sitcom character development. It's to be expected, of course, that in a film of this length and ambition there will be missteps and longueurs. Despite a few longueurs, this latest episode has a thousand times more energy, more fun, more visual invention, more deliciously arch comic intelligence than anything comparable in the summer movie marketplace. None of the symphonic music of Rimsky-Korsakov, Rachmaninov, Delius, Richard Strauss or Skryabin is without longueurs. In the right production the longueurs don't seem to matter much - this score becomes more spellbinding each time I hear it. Even if there are occasional longueurs, the show's visual wit and intelligence remain impressive. Scenes swiftly follow each other in the three acts which last a total of only an hour and 45 minutes, and there are no unwelcome longueurs. The present performers shape the concerto's architecture well, and what seem like longueurs elsewhere don't seem tiresome at all here. 1.1 A tedious period of time. 沉闷的时光 frustrated by the longueurs, many rail-users take to the roads instead Origin French, literally 'length'. Rhymes à deux, agent provocateur, astir, auteur, aver, bestir, blur, bon viveur, burr, Chandigarh, coiffeur, concur, confer, connoisseur, cordon-bleu, cri de cœur, cur, danseur, Darfur, defer, demur, de rigueur, deter, entrepreneur, er, err, farceur, faute de mieux, fir, flâneur, Fleur, force majeure, fur, hauteur, her, infer, inter, jongleur, Kerr, littérateur, masseur, Monseigneur, monsieur, Montesquieu, Montreux, murre, myrrh, occur, pas de deux, Pasteur, per, pisteur, poseur, pot-au-feu, prefer, prie-dieu, pudeur, purr, raconteur, rapporteur, refer, répétiteur, restaurateur, saboteur, sabreur, seigneur, Sher, shirr, sir, skirr, slur, souteneur, spur, stir, tant mieux, transfer, Ur, vieux jeu, voyageur, voyeur, were, whirr Definition of longueur in US English: longueur nounlɔŋˈɡərlôNGˈɡər A tedious passage in a book or other work. （书或其他作品中）冗长乏味的部分 its brilliant comedy passages do not cancel out the occasional longueurs 喜剧部分精彩绝伦，但偶尔还是有些冗长乏味的闷场。 the last act is sometimes marred by longueur 最后一幕有时会因冗长沉闷的段落而留下缺憾。 Example sentencesExamples The work has its longueurs, but it is worth waiting around for this inexpressibly limpid and lovely solo. Scenes swiftly follow each other in the three acts which last a total of only an hour and 45 minutes, and there are no unwelcome longueurs. Since then, the work has been performed in Chicago, where the composer made a few nips and tucks that were supposed to solve problems of pacing and the occasional longueur. The present performers shape the concerto's architecture well, and what seem like longueurs elsewhere don't seem tiresome at all here. Stillborn epigrams, mechanistic wordplay, and numbing longueurs feel like hapless actors' improvisations. None of the symphonic music of Rimsky-Korsakov, Rachmaninov, Delius, Richard Strauss or Skryabin is without longueurs. The script, however, by David King, was no match for its actor, thick with longueurs and sitcom character development. It is certainly a film with its longueurs, and is often frustratingly opaque. That's how opera fans go about their business, collecting wayside works for the inevitable Wagnerian longueurs. In the right production the longueurs don't seem to matter much - this score becomes more spellbinding each time I hear it. Even if there are occasional longueurs, the show's visual wit and intelligence remain impressive. Its war scenes aside, A Very Long Engagement has only the longueurs of Audrey Tautou in the part of Mathilde. Despite a few longueurs, this latest episode has a thousand times more energy, more fun, more visual invention, more deliciously arch comic intelligence than anything comparable in the summer movie marketplace. It's to be expected, of course, that in a film of this length and ambition there will be missteps and longueurs. This second half suffered from longueur, and finally ended with Bach's death. So good is it, that the longueurs of sitting through the first play evaporate within the first minute of sitting through the second, and you can't get better than that. Instead, it's got four good dances, a few good laughs, and not a few longueurs. Origin French, literally ‘length’.
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