dull

高中CET4CET6TOEFL考研IELTSGRE

英[d?l]
美[d?l]

基本釋義

adj.
枯燥無味的; 晦暗的; 多云的; (聲音)不清晰的; (感覺)不明顯的; (遲)鈍的; 不景氣的
v.
變遲鈍; 變暗淡; 變麻木

詞性變化

實用例句

Life in a small town could be deadly dull.

小城鎮(zhèn)的生活可能會非常沒意思。

牛津詞典

The first half of the game was pretty dull.

上半場比賽打得十分沉悶。

牛津詞典

There's never a dull moment when John's around.

只要約翰在就不會有沉悶的時候。

牛津詞典

a dull grey colour

暗灰色

牛津詞典

dull, lifeless hair

無光澤、無彈性的頭發(fā)

牛津詞典

Her eyes were dull.

她目光呆滯。

牛津詞典

The gates shut behind him with a dull thud.

他出去后門砰的一聲悶響關(guān)上了。

牛津詞典

It was a dull, grey day.

那是一個陰沉昏暗的日子。

牛津詞典

a dull ache/pain

隱隱的疼痛

牛津詞典

a dull pupil

腦子遲鈍的小學生

牛津詞典

Don't sell into a dull market.

不要到蕭條的市場去推銷。

牛津詞典

‘I suppose so, ’ she said dully.

“我看是這樣?!彼救徽f道。

牛津詞典

His leg ached dully.

他的腿隱隱作痛。

牛津詞典

The tablets they gave him dulled the pain for a while.

他們給他的藥片暫時緩解了疼痛。

牛津詞典

He felt dulled and stupid with sleep.

他睡得迷迷糊糊,昏頭昏腦。

牛津詞典

His eyes dulled and he slumped to the ground.

他眼前一黑重重地倒在地上。

牛津詞典

The endless rain seemed to dull all sound.

連綿不斷的陰雨似乎使所有的聲音都變得沉悶起來。

牛津詞典

They are both nice people but can be rather dull...

他倆都是好人但非常沉悶。

I felt she found me boring and dull...

我覺得她認為我既無趣又沉悶。

The body's natural rhythms mean we all feel dull and sleepy between 1 and 3pm.

人體生物鐘會讓我們在下午 1 點到 3 點之間感覺沒精打采、昏昏欲睡。

The stamp was a dull blue colour.

郵票是晦暗的深藍色。

It's always dull and raining.

天氣總是陰雨連綿。

The long whining whistle of a shell was followed by the dull boom of the explosion...

在炮彈長長的哀鳴聲呼嘯而過之后是隆隆而低沉的爆炸聲。

The coffin closed with a dull thud.

棺材合上時發(fā)出一聲悶響。

The pain, usually a dull ache, gets worse with exercise...

通常不明顯的疼痛在運動后會加劇。

I realized with a kind of dull shock that I didn't recognize a single name.

我暗自一驚,發(fā)現(xiàn)一個名字都不認識。

Her eyes dulled and she gazed blankly...

她眼神暗淡,呆呆地凝視著。

He can dull your senses with facts and figures...

他會用事實和數(shù)據(jù)蒙蔽你的理智。

真題例句

The study, which followed more than 2,000 healthy adults between the ages of 18 and 60, found that certain mental functions—including measures of abstract reasoning, mental speed and puzzle-solving—started to dull as early as age 27.

出自-2016年6月閱讀原文

Omit dull and ineffective generalities and make sure you give concrete examples.

2016年6月四級真題(第一套)聽力 Section C

At age five, this dull task brought me such joy.

2015年高考英語陜西卷 完形填空 原文

I had advised the kids that while verbs may seem dull, most of the clever things they do throughout their lives will be verbs.

2017年高考英語全國卷2 完形填空 原文

I think that living in an area where everyone was just like me would quickly become dull.

2014年高考英語全國卷1 聽力 原文

Still, I would rather be a bit more careful and live in a large city than to feel safe but dull.

2014年高考英語全國卷1 聽力 原文

Swimming pools, wine tasting, and pink sunsets at normal evening hours, not 4 in the afternoon filled the weekend, but the best part- particularly to my taste, dulled by months of cold--weather root vegetables--was a 7 a.m. adventure to the Sarasot

2015年高考英語全國卷1 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文

The books were long and dull.

2017年高考英語浙江卷(6月) 閱讀理解 閱讀A 原文

They were dull and visually forbidding.

2019年高考英語全國卷3 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文

英英釋義

Verb
  • 1. make dull in appearance;

    "Age had dulled the surface"

  • 2. become dull or lusterless in appearance; lose shine or brightness;

    "the varnished table top dulled with time"

  • 3. deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping

  • 4. make numb or insensitive;

    "The shock numbed her senses"

  • 5. make dull or blunt;

    "Too much cutting dulls the knife's edge"

  • 6. become less interesting or attractive

  • 7. make less lively or vigorous;

    "Middle age dulled her appetite for travel"

Adjective
  • 1. 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"

  • 2. emitting or reflecting very little light;

    "a dull glow"

    "dull silver badly in need of a polish"

    "a dull sky"

  • 3. 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"

  • 4. so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness;

    "a boring evening with uninteresting people"

    "the deadening effect of some routine tasks"

    "a dull play"

    "his competent but dull performance"

    "a ho-hum speaker who couldn't capture their attention"

    "what an irksome task the writing of long letters is"- Edmund Burke

    "tedious days on the train"

    "the tiresome chirping of a cricket"- Mark Twain

    "other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome"

  • 5. (of color) very low in saturation; highly diluted;

    "dull greens and blues"

  • 6. not keenly felt;

    "a dull throbbing"

    "dull pain"

  • 7. slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity;

    "so dense he never understands anything I say to him"

    "never met anyone quite so dim"

    "although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick"- Thackeray

    "dumb officials make some really dumb decisions"

    "he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse"

    "worked with the slow students"

  • 8. (of business) not active or brisk;

    "business is dull (or slow)"

    "a sluggish market"

  • 9. not having a sharp edge or point;

    "the knife was too dull to be of any use"

  • 10. blunted in responsiveness or sensibility;

    "a dull gaze"

    "so exhausted she was dull to what went on about her"- Willa Cather

  • 11. not clear and resonant; sounding as if striking with or against something relatively soft;

    "the dull thud"

    "thudding bullets"

  • 12. darkened with overcast;

    "a dark day"

    "a dull sky"

    "a gray rainy afternoon"

    "gray clouds"

    "the sky was leaden and thick"

同義詞辨析

dull, tedious, monotonous, dreary

這些形容詞均表示"單調(diào)的,乏味的,厭煩的"之意。

  • dull: 指缺乏鮮明、吸引力或情趣而顯得乏味、沉悶。
  • tedious: 側(cè)重指文章、演講、演出等冗長乏味或環(huán)境等單調(diào)、沉悶,缺乏活力,使感到不舒服。
  • monotonous: 指沒有變化、重復(fù)單調(diào)的。
  • dreary: 側(cè)重無趣味的,不活潑的事或思想狀態(tài)。

foolish, silly, stupid, simple, dull

這些形容詞都可表示"愚蠢的,笨的,傻的"之意。

  • foolish: 一般指人的無頭腦、愚蠢,或缺乏常識與判斷力,或指行動的愚蠢可笑。
  • silly: 口語用詞,可和foolish互換,但語氣稍強。側(cè)重指人的言行不合常規(guī)或不理智,強調(diào)單純、低能和糊涂。
  • stupid: 多指人或行為的愚蠢,尤指先天智能低下,或因某種原因失去正常的反應(yīng)或感覺。有時也可與silly和foolish換用,但語氣強,常含貶義。
  • simple: 強調(diào)頭腦簡單或缺少智慧。
  • dull: 指對問題理解遲鈍,缺乏靈敏機智頭腦,可能是先下智力低下,也可能因疲倦或健康不佳所致。

同義詞

adj.乏味的,單調(diào)的;無聊的

flattiresomemonotonousinsipiddrytediousuninterestingboring

adj.愚鈍的,笨的;不活躍的,呆滯的

sluggishstupidslowinactive

adj.陰沉的,昏暗的

drearygraydingy

vt.弄鈍;使遲鈍

unsharpblunt

反義詞

adj.遲鈍的;晦暗的;單調(diào)的

variedbrilliantvividkeeninterestingbrightexcitingsharp

最新英語單詞

行業(yè)英語