This is partly due to often bland media coverage of congress, and particularly coverage of individual members by local media in their states or congressional districts.

部份原因是媒体对国会的温和报导，地方媒体对本州或本国会选区的议员更是赞许有加。

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Foods that contain too little or too much sugar, fat or salt are either bland or overwhelming.

含有太多或太少糖、脂肪或者盐的食物要么太乏味，要么味道太强。

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Rice cakes can come plain — which are kind of bland — or in caramel, apple-cinnamon, cheese-flavored, and various other varieties.

米糕可以做成原味的——一种无味的——或焦糖味、苹果派肉桂味、奶酪味，以及其他各种口味。

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sounds well, kind of bland or revving in neutral there.What about this?

听上去还可以，趋于平淡或者说转向中性了，那这个呢？

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That continuity either means that it was a robust strategy that has weathered the enormous economic changes since then, or it's so bland that it doesn't much matter what the economy's doing.

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