stultify

柯林斯词典

stultify /ˈstʌltɪˌfaɪ/ (stultifying,stultified,stultifies)

• 1. V-T If something stultifies you, or if it stultifies your energy or ambition, it makes you feel empty or dull in your mind, because it is so boring. 使呆滯; 使厭煩[正式]

  ...a uniformed guard stultified with boredom. ...一名穿制服的閑得無聊的警衛。

  We must fight low expectations because they stultify ambition. 我們一定要擺脫較低的期望，因爲它們會磨滅我們的志曏。

• 2. stultifyingADJ

  ...the stultifying routines of life at home. ...家裡麪單調乏味的生活瑣事。

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