stultify

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。

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

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

This attitude stultifies scientific progress .

这种态度会扼杀科学的进步。

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

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。

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？

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。

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。

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。

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。

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。

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。

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。

He was stultified , shocked , paralyzed .

他不禁吓住了、愣住了、瘫痪了。

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。

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。

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。

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。