1Calm or send to sleep, typically with soothing sounds or movements.

小船有节奏的摇动将她送入了梦乡。

1. 1.1 Make (someone) feel deceptively secure or confident.
   使（人）放松警惕
   the rarity of earthquakes there has lulled people into a false sense of security

   那里很少发生地震，这让大家放松了警惕，误以为很安全。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • For a while it seemed that the government had quelled radical groups, but this has only lulled us into a sense of false security.
   • However, believers should not again be lulled into a false sense of security.
   • The first half hour almost lulls you into a false sense of security.
   • Aficionados will be lulled into a sense of security by the new season.
   • The story works like a spell or incantation, lulling you with plausible detail into accepting a slightly warped big picture.
   • Spending money on imaginary problems is worse than not spending at all: it lulls us into false security and it does nor identify and address important, real problems.
   • This was the good part of the day - but don't let me lull you into a false sense of security.
   • The design does exactly what it should: it lulls us into a false sense of security.
   • As people with the smallest amount of stability, we're lulled into a false complacency.
   • There are times I am lulled by familiarity, and I have spent time with people who are less than challenging.
   • A combination of a milder climate and better and more reliable cars seem to have lulled us all into a sense of security which occasionally proves false.
   • The size of the vehicle and its sheer momentum means you always seem to end up going faster than you think, and it never seems too stressed to handle the load, lulling you into a false sense of speed security.
   • We are lulled into at times a false sense of security and that's not right.
   • The US will not be lulled into complacency, or distracted by the feverish terrorist activity in Iraq.
   • Are we being lulled into a sense of false security?
   • Investors are lulled into a false sense of security and this is unfair.
   • The skiing was so smooth, I was lulled into a false sense of security, broken only when I saw Claudio waving his poles at me from below what looked like a stair-step in the mountain.
   • It is one of the most basic placements, but this shouldn't lull you into a false sense of security or over confidence.
   • It's only a matter of time before we're all lulled into a false sense of security.
   • Too often, the descriptions are imprecise, perhaps because of Johnson's overzealous desire to unleash sequence after sequence of arresting images, even if it means lulling us into uncertainty.

   Synonyms

   assuage, allay, ease, alleviate, pacify, palliate, mitigate, placate, mollify

   soothe, quiet, quieten, silence, calm, settle, hush, still, quell, quash, stifle, deaden, repress

   temper, reduce, check, diminish
2. 1.2no object (of noise or a storm) abate or fall quiet.
   （噪声，暴风雨）减弱；平息，停止
   conversation lulled for an hour

   谈话间歇了一小时。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Our conversation lulled momentarily, and I finally thought to ask him the one question that should've been the most obvious to me.
   • When the conversation lulled, the Captain sat silently brooding over his cigarette, head bowed.
   • The general conversation lulled rather after Sergeant Wolfe entered and began to eat mechanically.
   • The conversation lulled awhile, as all parties gave full attention to their food.
   • Dana arrived just in time to witness Jeremy Devonshire's little fit, and she propped herself in the doorway to wait for the storm to lull.
   • With difficulty, they squeezed their way up to the large drawing room to be announced; the buzz of many conversations lulling for a moment as the guests took in the dowager's rare public appearance.
   • Things were sort of sedate after that and the conversation lulled, then dropped off entirely.
   • After their mugs were emptied and the conversation lulled, Ava looked at him out of the corner of her eye.
   • The guests continued to chitchat through the meal, the conversation lulling to a dull murmur near the middle as they became full and rather sleepy.
   • It went on and on and on, lulling, then thundering down again.

   Synonyms

   abate, die down, subside, let up, moderate, slacken, lessen, dwindle, decrease, diminish, ebb, fade away, wane, taper off, lower

A temporary interval of quiet or lack of activity.

战斗暂停了两天。