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单词 stultifying
释义
stultifying
adjective
formaldisapproving
uk
/ˈstʌl.tɪ.faɪ.ɪŋ/us
/ˈstʌl.tə.faɪ.ɪŋ/
preventingnewideasfromdeveloping:
阻碍发展的；使僵化的
Thesecountriesaretryingtoshakeoff the stultifyingeffectsof severaldecadesofstatecontrol.这些国家正在努力摆脱几十年来国家专制体制对发展的束缚。
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stultify
stultifyingly
(Definition ofstultifyingfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofstultifying

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It also hails a very specific, liberating nonsense meant to deliver readers from thestultifyingorder of the mundane.
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Later entries document more subtle or prosaic impediments - husband's careers, lack of childcare, lack of due recognition - allstultifyingin their own ways.
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Learning to read and write t. o. is astultifyingexercise in rote learning - whereas learning a phonemic orthography inculcates habits of logical thought, deductive reasoning and careful observation.
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If genre is taken as ground, it will exert thestultifyingand taxonomizing pressure so often erroneously taken to be the end-result of genre study in general.
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It has every potentiallystultifyingquality but is genuinely readable, even gripping, keeping one from one's bed in the small hours, resistant to the delay of note-taking.
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André thus solves at a single stroke many of the current problems facing a present-day composer of opera or music theatre: the result is as ill-starred as it isstultifying.
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It is just possible that in place of the old,stultifying, sectarian divide there could be another issue.
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All too often the pursuit of excellence gives way tostultifyingegalitarianism.
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Nothing could be morestultifyingthan the present exorbitant rates.
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Both parties must take some blame for thestultifyingeffect of sterilising land which we need for building purposes, for open spaces and the rest.
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A maximum temperature can be equally unpleasant andstultifyingto work in as a very low temperature.
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The system has a most unfortunate way ofstultifyingprogress in our domestic policy.
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We found that this particular provision had astultifyingeffect when agreements were coming before us.
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The whole planning procedure is extremely complex, and it isstultifying, and as it is presently operated it is inhibiting and slowing down.
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But the case is a general one, thestultifyingeffect of uncurbed direct taxation on creative energy and economic effort.
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