deadens
英 [ˈdednz]
美 [ˈdednz]
v. 使(声音、感觉等)减弱，缓和，迟钝
deaden的第三人称单数
柯林斯词典
- VERB 缓和，减弱（感觉）；降低（声音）
If something deadens a feeling or a sound, it makes it less strong or loud.- He needs morphine to deaden the pain in his chest...
他需要吗啡来缓解胸痛。 - They managed to deaden the sound on TV every time the alleged victim's name was spoken.
每当提到据称是受害者的人的姓名时，他们都设法调低电视机的声音。
- He needs morphine to deaden the pain in his chest...
双语例句
- The cataclysm doesn't happen, we don't do any of it, because we find ourselves back in the heart of normal life, where negligence deadens desire.
灾难并未发生。我们发现自己又回到了正常生活的中心，在这种生活中所有的追求都被疏忽大意所扼杀。 - Faith deadens a mans heart to the things of this world.
信心让人对这世界的东西死心。 - Morphine deadens pain by acting at nerve synapses, but it also activates glial cells, possibly worsening the drug's side effects, such as drowsiness, tolerance, worsening of pain, and addiction.
吗啡通过作用于神经突触来缓解疼痛，但它同时也兴奋了胶质细胞，可能也加剧了该药的副作用，如嗜睡，耐受，疼痛加剧和成瘾。 - It beheads individuality, variety, dissent, extreme possibility, romantic faith, it blinds vision, deadens instinct, it obliterates the past.
它消解人的个性、多样性、异议、极端的可能性和浪漫的信念；它蒙蔽人的想象力、顿挫人的直觉、抹煞人的过去。 - Many Chinese, it is true, are woefully ignorant about events in their own country and abroad because of a highly effective system of state censorship that deadens all media, including the Internet and text messages on mobile phones.
确实，由于高效的国家审查控制了包括互联网和手机短信在内的各种媒体，很多中国人对本国和海外发生的事件并不了解，这很可悲。 - I sometimes wonder at him with an intensity that deadens my fear: yet, I assure you, a tiger or a venomous serpent could not rouse terror in me equal to that which he wakens.
可是，我跟你说，一只老虎或一条毒蛇使我引起的恐怖也抵不上他所引起的。