dullness

1. ADJ-GRADED 枯燥无味的;沉闷的;无聊的
   If you describe someone or something as dull, you mean they are not interesting or exciting.
   1. They are both nice people but can be rather dull...
      他俩都是好人但非常沉闷。
   2. I felt she found me boring and dull...
      我觉得她认为我既无趣又沉闷。
   3. The documentary lasts for more than two-and-a-half hours, and there is scarcely a dull minute.
      该纪录片片长超过两个半小时,却鲜有沉闷之处。
2. ADJ-GRADED 没精打采的;无生气的
   Someone or something that is dull is not very lively or energetic.
   1. The body's natural rhythms mean we all feel dull and sleepy between 1 and 3pm.
      人体生物钟会让我们在下午 1 点到 3 点之间感觉没精打采、昏昏欲睡。
3. ADJ-GRADED (颜色或光)不明亮的,晦暗的
   A dull colour or light is not bright.
   1. The stamp was a dull blue colour.
      邮票是晦暗的深蓝色。
4. ADJ-GRADED 阴沉的;昏暗的;多云的
   You say the weather is dull when it is very cloudy.
   1. It's always dull and raining.
      天气总是阴雨连绵。
5. ADJ-GRADED （声音）不清晰的，隐约的，低沉的
   Dull sounds are not very clear or loud.
   1. The long whining whistle of a shell was followed by the dull boom of the explosion...
      在炮弹长长的哀鸣声呼啸而过之后是隆隆而低沉的爆炸声。
   2. The coffin closed with a dull thud.
      棺材合上时发出一声闷响。
6. ADJ-GRADED (感觉)不明显的，不强烈的，隐约的
   Dull feelings are weak and not intense.
   1. The pain, usually a dull ache, gets worse with exercise...
      通常不明显的疼痛在运动后会加剧。
   2. I realized with a kind of dull shock that I didn't recognize a single name.
      我暗自一惊，发现一个名字都不认识。
7. 钝的;不锋利的
   If a knife or blade is dull, it is not sharp.
8. V-ERG (使)不强烈;(使)变得无光泽;(使)无生气
   If something dulls or if it is dulled, it becomes less intense, bright, or lively.
   1. Her eyes dulled and she gazed blankly...
      她眼神暗淡，呆呆地凝视着。
   2. He can dull your senses with facts and figures...
      他会用事实和数据蒙蔽你的理智。
   3. Share prices and trading have been dulled by worries over the war.
      股票价格和交易因人们对战争的忧虑而走低。

1. But JAXP's dullness has lulled developers away from looking to it for new features.
   不过JAXP的迟钝已经让开发人员不再寻求新的特性。
2. Dullness and loneliness were common problems of the families who generally lived distant from one another.
   那个时候，人们的住处彼此非常遥远，沉闷、孤独是是一个普遍的问题。
3. When I was not guessing, I was jumping at conclusions, and this fault, in addition to my dullness, aggravated my difficulties more than was right or necessary.
   当我不再猜想时，我便欣然接受各种结论，而这样做的结果只能是错上加错。另外，我感官上的迟钝更加剧了我的理解困难。
4. Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.
   食不可过饱，饮不得过量。
5. The polishing agents have minimal cut and finish without any micro marring or dullness.
   抛光剂的最小割和完成翻没有任何微型或沉闷。
6. The state of being drowsy or inattentive; dullness.
   困倦昏昏欲睡或不经心的状态；懒散。
7. Gopher Prairie is a place of unbearable dullness, conformity, hypocrisy, and oppression.
   戈菲尔普雷里就是一个极其乏味、因循守旧、充满虚伪和压迫的地方。
8. Tiresome by reason of length, slowness, or dullness; boring.
   单调乏味的由于时间长、缓慢或呆滞而令人厌倦的；令人厌烦的。
9. Understand that long-turn friendship wax and wane Long-term friendship are similar to marriage in that there will be both periods of excitement and dullness.
   友情也会有盛衰长期的友情同婚姻一样，既有兴奋期，也有觉得乏味的时候。
10. He found the dullness of his work scarcely bearable.
    他觉得他的工作枯燥乏味，简直无法忍受。
11. He did not truly feel good because the pain from the cord across his back had almost passed pain and gone into a dullness that he mistrusted.
    他并不真的觉得好过，因为钓索勒在背上疼痛得几乎超出了能忍痛的极限，进入了一种使他不放心的麻木状态。
12. In cattle, the first symptoms include dullness, refusal to feed and a fall in milk production.
    在牛第一个症状包括精神迟钝、拒食和产奶量减少。
13. Ascites is characterized by a fluid wave, shifting dullness, and fullness in the flanks.
    腹水的特点是液波震颤、移动性浊音、侧腹膨隆。
14. Activating cells: invigorate the self-regulation of skin, improve the skin texture, prevent the aging and dullness.
    活化细胞·激发肌肤自我调节力，改善肤质，预防老化、暗沉。
15. Auscultation revealed crackles in the lower lung fields and dullness to percussion at the bases.
    听诊显示下肺野有湿性罗音，肺底叩诊呈浊音。
16. The dullness of the rubber market has caused business to decrease.
    橡胶市场的呆滞使交易量大为减少。
17. His triumph lay in taking the puritanism and practicality of the early settlers, such "enigmatic dullness", he called it, and making it shine.
    他的成功在于挖掘了早期定居者既有清教徒式的自我约束，却又务实的特点。他称此是如此“出奇的平淡”，却让“平淡”大放光彩。
18. P.G.B.conditioning system can improve the roughness and dullness of the skin and make it white just like newly born.
    植物黄金体P.G.B调理系统，持续改善粗糙暗哑肤质，使肌肤新生白皙。
19. Their attempts at painting are mechanical to the point of dullness.
    他们的绘画尝试很呆板，简直是枯燥乏味。
20. If relationship is based on cause it is cunning adaptation, and therefore inevitably leads to another form of dullness.
    如果关系基于原因，那它就是狡猾的调整，因而不可避免地会导致另一种形式的迟钝。
21. His writing is never dull, but nor is it superficial, in a field where both dullness and superficiality are common.
    他的写作风格决不呆板枯燥，当然也不流于肤浅，而在写作界枯燥和肤浅是何其泛滥。
22. Aloe essence, deeply clean your skin, at the same time, whitening your skin, help to improve the dullness remain skin white and health.
    含芦荟萃取精华，能深层清洁，同时美白肌肤，改善灰黄晦暗肌肤，保持肌肤健康亮白。
23. His love for her, however, must compete with the dullness of schoolwork, his uncle's lateness, and the Dublin trains.
    他爱她，但是，必须与该浊音的功课，他的叔叔的晚，并在都柏林列车。
24. Temperance: Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.
    节制：食不过饱；饮酒不醉。
25. Mental dullness is prominent, and delirium may occur.
    神志迟钝加甚，且可发生谵妄。
26. This is a one-man show of paintings whose theme was the dullness of modern life.
    这是一个以现代生活的单调为主题的个人画展。
27. But dullness never quite darkens the whole planet.
    但是沉闷从来不会使整个地球变得暗淡。
28. We all strive for safety, prosperity, comfort, long life, and dullness.
    我们都在为安全、财富、舒适、长寿和整齐划一而努力。
29. It is only when there is comparison between the one called clever and the one called dull that there is such a quality as dullness.
    只有在拿被认为聪明的人和被认为迟钝的人进行比较的时候，迟钝这样的品质才会存在。
30. Pedro: Well, I prefer rain to dullness.
    我宁愿淋雨也不愿意无聊。

noun

1. without sharpness or clearness of edge or point
   1. the dullness of the pencil made his writing illegible

   Synonym:    bluntness

2. lack of sensibility
   1. there was a dullness in his heart
   2. without him the dullness of her life crept into her work no matter how she tried to compartmentalize it.

3. a lack of visual brightness
   1. the brightness of the orange sky was reflected in the dullness of the orange sea

4. the quality of lacking interestingness
   1. the stories were of a dullness to bring a buffalo to its knees

5. the quality of being slow to understand

   Synonym:    obtuseness