stultify
stultify 英 ['stʌltɪfaɪ] 美 ['stʌltɪfaɪ]
vt. 使变无效；使显得愚笨；使无价值
进行时:stultifying 过去式:stultified 过去分词:stultified 第三人称单数:stultifies 名词复数:stultifies
- When something stultifies you, it drains you of your energy, enthusiasm, or pleasure. A well-acted Shakespeare play can be a thrill. A poorly acted one can stultify like nothing else.
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- vt. 使变无效；使显得愚笨；使无价值
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1. The regular use of calculators could stultify a child's capacity to do basic mental operations.
经常使用计算器会使孩子用脑进行基本运算的能力变得迟钝。
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2. Both the LHC and the Space program are vital if the human race is not to stultify and eventually die out.
LHC和空间项目对人类都至关重要——如果人类不想一代代笨下去并最终灭亡的话。
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3. He had made money, and had had splendid opportunities to make a great deal more if he had been willing to stultify his conscience, but that he had never been able to do.
他也赚过一点钱，而且如果他肯昧良心的话，原有很好的机会可以多赚的，但是这样的事情他始终不干。
- stultify (v.) 1766, "allege to be of unsound mind" (legal term), from Late Latin stultificare "turn into foolishness," from Latin stultus "foolish" (literally "uneducated, unmovable," from PIE root *stel- "to put, stand") + combining form of facere "to make, to do" (from PIE root *dhe- "to set, put"). The first element is cognate with Latin stolidus "slow, dull, obtuse" (see stolid). Meaning "cause to appear foolish or absurd" is from 1809. Hence stultiloquy "foolish talk, silly babbling" (1650s). Related: Stultified; stultifying.
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