litany

noun

1. 连祷文，总祷文（连祷启应的祷文）
   a series of prayers to God for use in church services, spoken by a priest, etc., with set responses by the people
2. （对一系列事件、原因等）枯燥冗长的陈述
   a long boring account of a series of events, reasons, etc.
   1. a litany of complaints
      喋喋不休的抱怨

1. N-COUNT 陈词滥调；枯燥冗长的陈述
   If you describe what someone says as a litany of things, you mean that you have heard it many times before, and you think it is boring or insincere.
   1. She remained in the doorway, listening to his litany of complaints against her client.
      她站在门口，听他喋喋不休地抱怨她的客户。
2. 连祷；应答祈祷；启应祈祷
   A litany is part of a church service in which the priest says a set group of words and the people reply, also using a set group of words.

1. She remained in the doorway, listening to his litany of complaints against her client.
   她站在门口，听他喋喋不休地抱怨她的客户。
2. Would-be entrepreneurs are hampered by a litany of problems.
   有志创业者受到一系列问题的阻碍。
3. America how can I write a holy litany in your silly
   美国，在你这傻瓜情调中我怎能写一曲神圣祷歌
4. Depending on your goal, your answer to this question can lead to a litany of other questions about the specifics of whatever body of resources you need to protect.
   根据您的目标，您对这个问题的答案可能会引发其他的问题，例如您需要保护的资源的主体是什么。
5. When the litany was over, the deacon crossed his stole over his breast and pronounced: Ourselves and our life we offer up to Christ the Lord!
   读完祷文，助祭在胸前的肩带上画了十字，说：把我们自己和我们的生命交给我主基督。
6. Amid this shameful litany, however, there is a tiny point of light.
   然而，在这可耻的一长串问题中，有一个小小的闪光点。
7. Millennials know this litany, too.
   千禧一代也知道这些长篇大论。
8. News that investigators have searched his Neverland Ranch as part of a criminal investigation invokes a litany of bizarre displays, charges and counter-charges.
   作为犯罪调查的一部分，调查人员已经搜查了他的尼韦尔兰德庄园，这条消息招致没完没了、异乎寻常的揭露、指控和反指控。
9. Reciting record-setting temperatures and a litany of natural disasters, from hurricanes and wildfires to droughts and floods, Mr. Obama tried to raise the sense of urgency surrounding climate change at a United Nations meeting dominated by fears of terrorism.
   奥巴马罗列了创纪录的温度，以及从飓风和野火，再到干旱和洪水的一连串自然灾害，试图在这场恐怖主义威胁成为主要担忧的联合国会议上，提升气候变化议题的紧迫感。
10. Modern medicine offers a litany of replacement parts, from whole limbs to metal hips, shoulders and joints.
    现代医学提供了一连串的替换零件，从整个肢体到金属臀部、肩膀以及关节等等。
11. I could list for you a tragicomic litany of all the things I was once mistakenly completely certain about, and I'm sure you can do the same.
    我可以为你列举出曾经我错误地完全可以肯定的事物的一系列悲喜剧，我认为你也一定能。
12. The opposition party recited a litany of national failings: a collapsing health system, a failing educational system, homelessness, crime and unemployment.
    反对党列出了一长串全国性失误：崩溃的保健体系、失败的教育制度、无家可归，犯罪、失业等。
13. The television news was a daily litany of bombings and killings.
    电视新闻每天连续不断地报道爆炸和杀戮事件。
14. And what struck me most forcefully from this analysis aside from the usual, horrific litany of bank woes was just how much trouble is quietly brewing in corners of the commodities world.
    除了通常那一大堆令人毛骨悚然的银行问题以外，这个分析最使我震惊的地方就是，大宗商品市场正在悄悄酝酿着多大的麻烦。
15. When my dad answered, I immediately launched into my litany of frustration with college life.
    当爸爸接起电话，我立刻开始历数我大学生活中的挫折。
16. There is a litany of medical problems facing the prison population.
    监狱人口面临一连串的医疗方面的问题。
17. In other meetings I have attended this month with us board directors, I have heard a litany of similar concerns.
    在近日与美国公司董事共同参加的其他会议上，我也听到了很多类似的担忧。
18. Like all entrepreneurs, Mr Diamond has chalked up a litany of daring moves over the years-a few have backfired, but most have paid off.
    与所有企业家一样，戴蒙德这些年来进行了一系列冒险活动有些亏了钱，但多数都获得了回报。
19. A litany of concerns worried people on the platforms and in the audiences.
    一连串的问题让台上台下的人们都感到忧虑。
20. Mr Miyamoto chronicles a litany of engineering failures that were entirely avoidable.
    米亚莫托列出了一长串原本完全可以避免的工程缺陷。
21. In most countries that would count as a litany of failure.
    在大多数国家的这种局面将被视作中诅咒般的失败。
22. Last, but not least, in my litany of woe, once I had Fedora installed, I had some trouble updating it to the latest patches.
    最后，但并不意味着就不重要了，当我安装好Fedora，准备给系统打上最新的补丁时，我再次遇到了麻烦；
23. He tried to offer an explanation, but I just started in on a litany of nasty barbs.
    他想解释，可我又说了一连串难听的话刺他。
24. The mournful litany of disease is caused by sewage.
    污水排放是发生这些可悲的疾病的原因。
25. She will then reel off a litany of bills and responsibilities.
    她会滔滔不绝地反复诉说她的账单和责任。
26. But as you saw from a little litany of key safety issues, they've been around for a very long time.
    但是，如你们从关键的安全问题里看到，它们已经存在了很长时间了。
27. So is the low-fat litany completely without a basis in reality?
    所以“低脂肪”的说法是否完全没有科学依据呢？
28. Dr. Middleton bowed to the litany.
    弥得尔顿博士对这种连祷俯首贴耳。
29. When I asked her why she went public, she poured forth a litany of grievances: about the village women who shunned her, about decades of hardships and near-starvation, and about her loneliness now.
    当我问她为什么愿意站在公众面前时，她滔滔不绝地倾诉起自己所受的委屈：村里的女人都避着她，几十年的艰难困苦，食不果腹，还有现在的孤独。
30. We're all familiar with the litany of TV and radio talk shows.
    我们都是熟悉电视和电台谈话节目纸。

noun

1. any long and tedious address or recital
   1. the patient recited a litany of complaints
   2. a litany of failures