Dull

(verb.) make less lively or vigorous; 'Middle age dulled her appetite for travel'.

(verb.) become dull or lusterless in appearance; lose shine or brightness; 'the varnished table top dulled with time'.

(verb.) make dull in appearance; 'Age had dulled the surface'.

(verb.) make dull or blunt; 'Too much cutting dulls the knife's edge'.

(adj.) (of business) not active or brisk; 'business is dull (or slow)'; 'a sluggish market' .

(adj.) emitting or reflecting very little light; 'a dull glow'; 'dull silver badly in need of a polish'; 'a dull sky' .

(adj.) (of color) very low in saturation; highly diluted; 'dull greens and blues' .

(adj.) darkened with overcast; 'a dark day'; 'a dull sky'; 'the sky was leaden and thick' .

(adj.) not having a sharp edge or point; 'the knife was too dull to be of any use' .

(adj.) not keenly felt; 'a dull throbbing'; 'dull pain' .

(adj.) lacking in liveliness or animation; 'he was so dull at parties'; 'a dull political campaign'; 'a large dull impassive man'; 'dull days with nothing to do'; 'how dull and dreary the world is'; 'fell back into one of her dull moods' .

(adj.) being or made softer or less loud or clear; 'the dull boom of distant breaking waves'; 'muffled drums'; 'the muffled noises of the street'; 'muted trumpets' .

(adj.) not clear and resonant; sounding as if striking with or against something relatively soft; 'the dull thud'; 'thudding bullets' .

(adj.) blunted in responsiveness or sensibility; 'a dull gaze'; 'so exhausted she was dull to what went on about her'- Willa Cather .

编辑:兰尼

• The light was dull; the distance was dim. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• If a man of my cunning cannot circumvent this dull-headed— Cautious. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• When she sang, every note thrilled in his dull soul, and tingled through his huge frame. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• In that subservience, and not in the meddling of Mr. Morgan, is the reason why American journalism is so flaccid, so repetitious and so dull. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• By touching something deeply instinctive in millions of people, Judge Lindsey animated dull proposals with human interest. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• A shirt, for example, must not be discolored by perspiration, nor a waist faded by washing, nor a carpet dulled by sweeping with a dampened broom. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Her Majesty, who looks unusually sad to-night (His Majesty sitting dulled with the day's hunting), is told that the sight of it would cheer her. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• It was fainter and duller. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• It was because of that that I abandoned journalism, and took to so much duller work: tutoring and private secretaryship. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• There was something wanting; Briarfield was duller. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The Sunday evening was, if possible, duller even than the Saturday evening. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• If he had not known it before, he would have known it then, though he had been a much duller man than he was. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• He wanted to go back to the dullest conservatism, to the most stupid of conventional people. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• It was not the dullest part of this goad in its galling of Bradley Headstone, that he had made it himself in a moment of incautious anger. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Little Mowcher would have as much need to live, if she was the bitterest and dullest of pigmies; but she couldn't do it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Hill-street is, I think, the dullest street in all London, do you know, Miss Wilson. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• A deeper stillness possessed the air, and the glitter of the American autumn was tempered by a haze which diffused the brightness without dulling it. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• The shock dulls the pain; but this is all right, you have nothing to worry about if it doesn't infect and it rarely does now. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.

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