deadening

英 [ˈdednɪŋ]

美 [ˈdednɪŋ]

adj.  令人麻木的;使热情(或想象力)消退的
v.  使(声音、感觉等)减弱，缓和，迟钝
deaden的现在分词

BNC.37706 / COCA.36338

柯林斯词典

• ADJ 令人麻木的;使热情（或想象力）消退的
  Adeadeningsituation destroys people's enthusiasm and imagination.
  1. She was bored with the deadening routine of her life.
     她厌倦了自己生活令人窒息的一成不变。

双语例句

• Mental exercises that prompt group members to think more critically can counter that deadening effect, according to Ms Kray.
  克赖认为，让集体成员以更挑剔的方式进行思考，这种智力练习能够对抗上述隔音效应。
• Then the accuracy of the conclusion is verified. Firstly, the GT-Power software is used to calculate the transmission loss of several main kinds of mufflers by changing the parameters of their structures. Then the factors of increasing low frequency noise deadening capacity are identified.
  首先，运用GT-Power软件对几种主要类型的消声器进行传声损失的计算，通过改变其结构参数，找出增大低频消声量的因素，再结合理论分析，最终得出降低低频噪声方法的结论。
• As a gauge of investor expectations for the future, the action is in the offshore forwards and options markets, which, in the words of one analyst, are further away from the deadening hand of the PBoC.
  作为判断投资者未来预期的标准，这样的套利活动发生在离岸远期及期权市场。这两个市场用一位分析师的话来说进一步远离了中国央行的有形之手。
• Its gravitational repulsion would offset galaxies 'gravitational attraction, thereby deadening their motion.
  暗能量的斥力会抵消星系间的引力，从而减弱了星系的运动。
• Turret adopts optimal design, using double design hopper which is filled in deadening materials, the equipment has very good safety and is environmental friendly.
  刀架优化设计，料斗采用双层设计，内填隔音材料，设备具有很好的安全性和环保性。
• The slavery of being waited upon is more deadening than the slavery of waiting upon other people.-Mackenzie, Compton
  被侍候的奴役比侍候别人的奴役更让人麻木。&麦金基
• These were the circumstances and the hopes which gradually brought their alleviation to Sir Thomas, deadening his sense of what was lost, and in part reconciling him to himself;
  正是这些情况，这些给人以希望的现象，渐渐缓解了托马斯爵士的痛苦，使他不再为失去的一切而忧伤，不再跟自己过不去。
• Fire resistance material and other decoration materials, such as suspended celling, clapboard and deadening, etc.
  防火和各种装饰材料，如吊顶、隔板和隔音材料等。
• My husband and I settled into a deadening routine;
  我和我丈夫陷入了一种呆板的生活中。
• All too often they become enmeshed in deadening routines.
  他们时常陷入枯燥的日常事务之中。