But a compendium of facts is inevitably incomplete and deathly dull to read.
不过，史实列表有不可避免的不完整性，而且读起来有点死气沉沉的。
I can see that New York must seem dull to her though the family won't admit it.
我看得出来纽约对她来说一定很单调乏味，虽然家里人不愿承认这一点。
There are a variety of violets on the market, from the very dull to the very bright.
市场上到处摆放着各式各样的紫罗兰花，从暗淡的到非常鲜艳的都有。
I found it dull to split hairs over the privacy of a person who counted on one's card.
我觉得对一个指望一举成名的人的隐私评头论足索然无味。
This book beautify the greatest life, the life she encountered setbacks are dull to deal with.
这本书美化了居里夫人的生活，把她一生所遇到的曲折都平淡地处理了。
We are callous because we have become dull to suffering, we have dulled our minds through escapes.
我们冷漠是因为我们变得对痛苦迟钝，我们通过逃避使我们的心意变得迟钝。
Indian holy man seems dull to us, I suppose, because he seems to be refusing to play anything at all.
在我们看来印第安圣徒似乎愚蠢，我想，因为他看起来似乎要拒绝一切可以玩的。
There are severe limitations in measuring intelligence by a linear scale ranging from dull to bright.
用一种从愚昧排列到聪明的线性标尺来衡量智力有极大的局限性。
And the Indian holy man seems dull to us, I suppose, because he seems to be refusing to play anything at all.
我认为，对于我们来说，那位印度圣人显得愚鲁，因为他拒绝玩任何游戏。
Questions keep your mind engaged. They can change your learning process from something dull to a treasure hunt.
问题可以让你的大脑时刻参与，问题可以让你的学习过程从无聊变为寻宝之旅。
The point I was trying to make is not that Jen was dull, but that I was becoming dull to myself – and that, I am responsible for.
我想说的是，我并不是说她很无趣，我是说我自己变得越来越无趣，我要为此负责。
But there is only one Beethoven genius, but only one child prodigy Mozart, more people are trying to adopt, through perseverance, dull to brilliant.
世上不过只有一个天才贝多芬，也不过是只有一个神童莫扎特，更多的人是通过尝试，通过毅力化平淡为辉煌的。
Anxious and uneasy, the period which passed in the drawing-room, before the gentlemen came, was wearisome and dull to a degree that almost made her uncivil.
她感到万分焦急不安，因此在两位贵客没有走进会客室以前，她几乎厌倦沉闷得快要发脾气了。
No one knows for sure why Deinocheirus had hands like this - some say they were probably too dull to use for killing... he may have just used them to climb trees.
没人知道为什么恐手龙的手长成那样。有些人说恐手龙的手可能太迟钝了，都不能用于猎杀，只能用来爬树。
The timepiece looks a bit dull to Sophie, but when it takes her on an exciting adventure back to the time of the Romans, she realises it is no ordinary watch after all!
索菲觉得这个闹钟没什么好玩的，可是，当这个闹钟带着索菲回到了罗马时代，经历了一次奇幻的冒险之后，她才意识到这绝不是一个普通的钟表！
When your mind is dull, alternate nostril breathing brings equal amounts of oxygen to both sides of the brain for improving brain function.
当你头脑迟钝时，交替鼻孔呼吸给大脑两边带来等量的氧气，以改善大脑功能。
Married couples are likely to exert themselves for guests—being amusing, discussing with passion and point—and then to fall into dull exhausted silence when the guests have gone.
已婚夫妇可能会为了客人而竭尽全力——包括逗乐，热情四射地讨论——然后在客人走后陷入沉闷而疲惫的沉默。
The people can be wrong in an assortment of ways: lazy, spiteful, bullying or just dull and too depressed themselves to spread much cheer.
人则会以很多方式出现问题：懒惰的、怀有恶意的、咄咄逼人的、乏味的，以及情绪过于低落而让人高兴不起来的。
It is a testimony to Roth's talent that he could not quite bring himself to write a book as dull and flat as his original conception for his novel Everyman seemed to demand.
这是对罗斯才华的证明，他不能接受自己不能完全按照对小说《所有人》的初衷所要求的那样，枯燥而平淡地写书。
The advertisers show us the latest fashionable styles and we are constantly under pressure to follow the fashion in case our friends think we are odd or dull.
广告商向我们展示最新的时尚风格，我们不断承受着赶时髦的压力，以免我们的朋友认为我们古怪或无趣。
The second is guaranteed to look great for about 10 years, whereas the cheaper one will start to dull after around 6 or 7 years.
第二种保证在10年内看起来很好，而便宜的那种大约在6、7年后就会开始变暗。
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。
Zhu believed that there's no shortcut to success, and sometimes dull efforts are necessary.
朱认为，成功没有捷径，有时枯燥的努力是必要的。
On one hand, it would certainly be original when compared to the other dull and unimaginative mailboxes lining the street.
一方面，和街道里其他枯燥和缺乏想象力的邮箱比这肯定会是很好的创意。
This may explain why German history books have tended to be dull collections of documents, and French ones often resemble lifestyle magazines.
这有可能解释为什么德国历史书有点像枯燥的文件集，法国的历史书经常像生活杂志。
This may make the museum sound worthy if a little dull, but this is to underestimate the charms within.
如此说来，阿尔博物馆即使有些沉闷，却也值得一看，但这么说还是低估了她内在的种种魅力。
It all happens in bright, inviting worlds that prove that family-friendly doesn't have to mean deadly dull.
一切都发生在明亮、动人的世界中，证明老少咸宜的游戏并不总意味着极其沉闷无聊。
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。
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。
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