stultify
- v.使迟钝;使厌烦;使呆滞;呆板
过去式: stultified 现在分词: stultifying 过去分词: stultified 第三人称单数: stultifies
verb
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- deprive of strength or efficiency;make useless or worthless
- This measure crippled our efforts
- Their behavior stultified the boss's hard work
- Synonym: cripple
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- cause to appear foolish
- He stultified himself by contradicting himself and being inconsistent
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- prove to be of unsound mind or demonstrate someone's incompetence
- nobody is legally allowed to stultify himself
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Only a uniformed guard stultified with boredom might have overheard them .
只有一名穿制服的无聊警卫可能偷听到了他们的谈话。
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Their unhelpfulness has stultified our efforts to improve things .
他们不管事,我们为改进工作的用心也就白费了
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the stultifying effects of work that never varies
一成不变的工作造成的使人呆滞的后果
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This attitude stultifies scientific progress .
这种态度会扼杀科学的进步。
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At its worst it is corrosive and it is stultifying .
在最坏的情况下,时间具有腐蚀作用,而且使人更为愚钝
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Mr. Taylor 's present behaviour stultifies his previous efforts .
泰勒先生目前的行为使他过去的努力全白费了。
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What 's that stultifying saying about chowder-headed people ?
那句说人傻头傻脑的前言不搭后语的话是怎么一回事呢?
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The environment can be stultifying , unhealthy , too political and so on .
环境的问题可能在于让人感觉徒劳无功、不健康或是太勾心斗角等等。
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She felt the repetitive exercises stultified her musical technique so she stopped doing them .
她感到反复练习使她的音乐技巧僵化,于是就不再做了。
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It has stifled debate and made office life more stultifying and aggravating than it has ever been .
它扼杀了辩论,让办公室生活变得空前单调乏味和令人恼火。
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China 's film industry , while growing , is burdened by a stultifying bureaucracy and draconian censorship .
中国的电影业虽然在不断发展,但却在国内沉闷严苛的审查制度的影响下倍感压抑。
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As the chronic political disorder continues to stultify the economy , Nepal 's status as an investment friendly country has further relegated .
由于长期政治动荡持续扰乱经济,尼泊尔的投资友好国家排名不断下滑。
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Mill seemed unable to square his concern about the stultifying effects of capitalism with his argument that the division of labour had massively increased living standards .
密尔认为,劳动分工极大地提高了人们的生活水平,但他对资本主义使人呆滞的担忧,似乎无法与这一观点相吻合。
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Hurstwood saw her depart with some faint stirrings of shame , which were the expression of a manhood rapidly becoming stultified .
赫斯渥眼看着她离去,心里隐约泛起阵阵羞愧,这是男子汉气概迅速衰退的表现。
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He was stultified , shocked , paralyzed .
他不禁吓住了、愣住了、瘫痪了。
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The announcement by the country 's top censor that all censorship would stop in a country with perhaps the most stultifying media outside North Korea suggested a government keen to change its image .
缅甸最高审查机构宣布将停止所有媒体审查除朝鲜之外,缅甸媒体也许是世界上最愚蠢的这表明政府迫切希望改变其形象。
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Once I was dressed in the little bit of shorts , I opened the door to the yoga studio and was met with a rush of hot , stultifying air .
一次,我穿着小短裤,打开瑜珈馆的门,迎面就吹来一股热而闷的空气。
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meandering dirges that managed to transmit all of punk 's anger and abhorrence while avoiding most of the clich é s of an already stultifying genre .
这张专辑却在传达出朋克的愤怒与厌恶的同时,又避免了其中的大部分陈词滥调。
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The hive , as the place is known , has long played host to a rotating cast of free-spirited programmers and innovators , many of whom come to San Francisco to escape what they regard as the stultifying atmosphere of Silicon Valley proper .
这个地方被称为“蜂房”(Hive),长期以来都有无拘无束的编程员和创新者搬进搬去,其中有很多人来到旧金山是为了逃离硅谷那极其单调、却被人尊崇的气氛。