Dullness
['dʌlnɪs]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) without sharpness or clearness of edge or point; 'the dullness of the pencil made his writing illegible'.
(noun.) lack of sensibility; 'there was a dullness in his heart'; 'without him the dullness of her life crept into her work no matter how she tried to compartmentalize it.'.
(noun.) a lack of visual brightness; 'the brightness of the orange sky was reflected in the dullness of the orange sea'.
(noun.) the quality of lacking interestingness; 'the stories were of a dullness to bring a buffalo to its knees'.
(noun.) the quality of being slow to understand.
編輯:普鲁登斯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The state of being dull; slowness; stupidity; heaviness; drowsiness; bluntness; obtuseness; dimness; want of luster; want of vividness, or of brightness.
校對:马里恩
例句/造句/用法:
- Always to be right, always to trample forward, and never to doubt, are not these the great qualities with which dullness takes the lead in the world? 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- The imperfections of his mind run parallel with those of his body, being a composition of spleen, dullness, ignorance, caprice, sensuality, and pride. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- The Dedlock town house changes not externally, and hours pass before its exalted dullness is disturbed within. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- It's confoundedly dull, anyhow; New York is dying of dullness, Beaufort grumbled. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- I noticed a curious dimness and dullness in her eyes--not as if she had been crying but as if she had been looking at something too long. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Indeed it is not even an opinion, darling, for it is only a confession of my dullness. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Dullness is as much produced within doors as without, by rain. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
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