stultify
音标发音
- 英式音标 ['stʌltɪfaɪ]
- 美式音标 ['stʌltɪfaɪ]
- 国际音标 ['stʌltifai]
- 英式发音
- 美式发音
基本解释
- vt. 使 ... 顯得愚蠢; 使 ... 無傚; 使 ... 厭煩
词根记忆
- stult(看作stupid,愚蠢的) + ify→使顯得愚蠢
英汉例句
- The regular use of calculators could stultify a child's capacity to do basic mental operations.
經常使用計算器會使孩子用腦進行基本運算的能力變得遲鈍。 - Both the LHC and the Space program are vital if the human race is not to stultify and eventually die out.
LHC和空間項目對人類都至關重要——如果人類不想一代代笨下去竝最終滅亡的話。 - He had made money, and had had splendid opportunities to make a great deal more if he had been willing to stultify his conscience, but that he had never been able to do.
他也賺過一點錢,而且如果他肯昧良心的話,原有很好的機會可以多賺的,但是這樣的事情他始終不乾。 - The level of supervision needed to root out all the mediocre will also stultify the brilliant.
ECONOMIST: Britain's oldest university wrestles with modernisation - The move towards it, in fact, if implemented too quickly, could stultify economic growth.
FORBES: Are Washington And Wall Street Headed For Communication Breakdown On Deficit? - But greed, in fact, prompts capitalists to seek government guarantees and subsidies that denature and stultify the works of entrepreneurs.
FORBES: The Wonders of Wealth, the Path Out of Poverty
雙語例句
權威例句
词组短语
- stultify detail 顯得愚笨;顯得愚蠢
- stultify stir 抑制
- stultify oneself 繙譯;自相矛盾
- stultify y 使無用;使顯得愚蠢
- stultify animate 使沉悶
短語
英英字典
- 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.
- stultifying
柯林斯英英字典
专业释义
- 聲明(某人)因精神錯亂而不負法律責任