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。

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There were squints, and leers, and some dull, ox-like stares from those who were too dull or too weary to converse.

还有一些人只是斜眼瞟着，或是像公牛那样瞪大眼睛呆望着，这些人因为太迟钝或太疲倦而没有交谈。

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Men were used to wearing dull, boring clothes of dull, boring colors.

男士们习惯穿暗淡乏味的颜色的暗淡乏味的衣服。

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Now,there came to my ears a low,dull,quick sound, such as a watch makes when inside a piece of cotton.

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Now, it is possible to have sense without the sound of sense pass muster but makes very dull reading) and the sound of sense without sense .

这真是一个有野心的人哈，现在，没有感性的声音也可以做到,像点名很无聊,感性的声音没有感觉,就像在爱丽丝漫游奇境中，这让一切只剩沉闷的阅读。

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for I want to know"; here a desire expressed between two people, a husband and a wife.] She turned and sank upon her skirts at that, ] And her face changed from terrified to dull.

因为我想知道“,这里丈夫和妻子两个人的欲望表达得淋漓尽致],她转过去，从裙子里垂下来，像突然垮下来一样],她的脸从惊恐变成了呆滞。

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Nor does it help that Jamie is so withdrawn as to be downright dull. (Nothing is harder to write than an interesting play about a dull person.) The biggest problem of all is the ending, which feels contrived rather than earned, just as Mark Wendland's picture-puzzle set is too explicitly symbolic of the play's theme.

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Fleischer found himself explaining that thinking Wednesday, saying that although the government was unlikely to do anything as gas prices continue to rise into the summer, consumers would be able to dull the ache if they start to see more money in their paychecks.

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Whether built with delicate sensitivity to materials or dull adherence to principles, the glass box became an icon of Cold War capitalism, a symbol of modernist cosmopolitanism befitting a global superpower in the making.

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