Bright curtains can cheer up a dull room.
色彩鲜艳的窗帘可以让单调的房间变得亮丽起来。
It's up to you to plug the leak—even though there are always a dozen reasons to stay stuck in your dull routines of life.
这取决于你是否能填补这个漏洞——尽管总有一堆的理由把你困在枯燥的每日常规工作中。
Interesting as it might appear, a made-up conversation will probably turn out to be dull.
一段虚构的对话看起来可能很有趣,但最终可能会变得很无聊。
We are cruising along at 30 mph when, suddenly, the car flies up in the air and lands with a dull thump.
我们正以每小时30英里的速度行驶,突然,汽车腾空而起,砰的一声重重地落在地上。
If you saw a dull brochure sitting on a desk, would you bother to pick it up?
如果你看到一个沉闷的小册子赖在办公桌上,你都懒得捡起来?
Bertrand Russell probably sums up the problem with More's vision best when he says, 'life in More's Utopia, as in most others, would be intolerably dull.
勃兰特·罗素也许说中了莫尔乌托邦世界的问题所在:在莫尔的乌托邦世界,会和其他世界一样,有令人无法忍受的乏味。
The campaign was boring, the candidates dull and people are fed up, says Ivo Banac, a historian and commentator.
选举是无趣的,候选人是乏味的,人民是受够了的,历史学家兼评论家伊沃-伯纳克说到。
But we don't want to work more than 40 hours a week, and we want to wear clothes that are comfortable. We want to be able to spice up the dull workday by listening to our iPods.
但是,我们不想一周工作40个小时以上,我们喜欢穿舒适的衣服上班,喜欢一边听iPod一边打发无聊的工作时间。
Before you discard a distribution for looking dull, run a few searches to see if it can be spruced up.
在你放弃看上去很无趣的发行版之前,去搜索一下,看看它能不能更好一些。
However dull work may be, it becomes bearable if it is a means of building up a reputation, whether in the world at large or only in one's own circle.
无论工作多么枯燥单调,如果它是能够使人逐渐成名的手段,无论是在世界上出名还是就在自己的圈子里出名,那么这工作就不再难以忍受了。
If you often wake up with a dull headache or sore jaw, you may be grinding your teeth or clenching your jaw while you sleep, a problem called bruxism.
如果你经常醒来的时候有轻微的头痛或下巴肿痛,你可能是在睡觉的时候磨牙或者紧闭牙关,被称为夜间磨牙症。
We came up with the idea because it was clear that Value at risk would only work during rather dull markets, that is, perversely at times when it almost wasn't important to measure risk!
我们想到这个概念是因为很显然“风险价值”模型只有在市场平稳的时候才起作用,但那几乎是无需测量风险的时期!
They begin to build up and dull the shine and tone of our hair.
它们开始堆积,使头发的光泽和色调变得暗哑。
Congress's recent farm bill was supposed to dull the incentives for American farmers to plant on marginal lands by slashing farm subsidies and beefing up conservation programmes.
国会最近的农业法案本应通过削减农业补贴,加重林地保护计划,减少美国农民开垦种植的刺激。
Nothing. It's dull as tombs up here.
没有。这里头闷得像个坟墓。
He remembered the dull flush that had burned up in the sculptor's face.
他还记得,雕塑家脸上泛起了一层淡淡的红晕。
He listened to this with but dull perception of what it meant. It had no serious ring to it. The question was not up for immediate decision.
他听着这话,但是并没有深刻理解这话的含意。这些话现在听来并不重要,还没有到马上做决定的时候呢。
There's nothing like raising the subject of models among four single women to spice up an otherwise dull Tuesday night.
四个单身女子,一谈起模特无不咬牙切齿,这样沉闷的星期二夜晚增加几分乐趣。
Jeffrey has a way of weaving dull material (up) into an interesting article.
杰弗里有办法将枯燥的素材写成有趣的文章。
Brenda Houston came up with these unusual "rocky" design meant to brake the pattern of sober and dull lighting.
布伦达休斯顿想出了这些不寻常的“洛奇”是刹车的清醒和枯燥的照明图案设计。
The heating was turned up high to dull his audience's senses.
暖气温度被调到很高,以至于听众的意识变得迟钝。
He was fed up with the white - and-dull night and the solitude day after day.
他厌烦那种白的乏味的夜晚,日反一日的孤单。
There were dull pigs too, turning up the ground in search of dainty food .
还有一群蠢笨的猪,用鼻子拱地寻找好吃的食物。
He looked up with dull, fearful eyes as Judith returned a third time, sweeping her sword in a broad stroke aimed at the top his helmet.
他抬头凝视茱蒂丝的眼神已经变得呆滞而恐惧,而茱蒂丝已经第三次袭来了。她在他的上空双手持剑准备最后一次横扫。
Oh, and in the "never a dull moment" category, we had a pretty serious car accident on the drive up, but everybody was okay.
哦,算是“无巧不成书”,我们在去的路上发生了一起相当严重的车祸,好在无人受伤。
Oh, and in the "never a dull moment" category, we had a pretty serious car accident on the drive up, but everybody was okay.
哦,算是“无巧不成书”,我们在去的路上发生了一起相当严重的车祸,好在无人受伤。
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