In contrast to the blaze of sunlight outside, the inner light had a soporific effect, especially on the twins.

与户外灿烂的阳光相比，室内的光线有种催眠效果，这对双胞胎尤其明显。

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Providence, out of pity for mankind, has instilled a soporific charm into all tedious things.

老天爷悲悯世人，他在一切沉闷的东西上都施加了催眠般的魔力。

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My dissertation, like most in recent years, was a collection of loosely related papers bound together for the sole purpose of getting a degree. It bore the soporific title, "Essays on Consumption.

但我的博士论文和许多近年来的文章一样，都是一堆文章拼拼凑凑的结果，权想要拿个学位罢了，题目也没什么新意，叫作《论消费》。

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Paul Samuelson's textbook on economics did nothing but reinforce a suspicion I'd always held: Economics was obscure on its best day and as soporific as a Lutheran sermon on the rest.

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But an election that had seemed a soporific canter has suddenly turned into a horse race.

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They should be nonessential but not trivial, and require some attention to detail soporific, in a beneficial sense, without being stultifying.

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