V-T If something stultifies you, or if it stultifies your energy or ambition, it makes you feel empty or dull in your mind, because it is so boring. 使呆滞; 使厌烦 [正式]
...a uniformed guard stultified with boredom.
...一名穿制服的闲得无聊的警卫。
We must fight low expectations because they stultify ambition.
我们一定要摆脱较低的期望，因为它们会磨灭我们的志向。
stultifying ADJ
...the stultifying routines of life at home.
...家里面单调乏味的生活琐事。
The environment can be stultifying, unhealthy, too political and so on.
环境的问题可能在于让人感觉徒劳无功、不健康或是太勾心斗角等等。
It's a wonderful, liberating break from that infantile, stultifying convention.
从那幼稚和愚蠢的公约中解放是美妙的。
It came as a relief from the stultifying uniformity that he knew at home in France.
这一感受来自于对极其乏味单调的千篇一律的解脱，他在法国国内就已熟知那种千篇一律了。
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