| 词组 | dull |
| 释义 | beige mod. boring; insipid.The party is beige. Let's cruise.Let's blow this beige joint!This day is way beige! Bag it! big drink of water n. a boring person or thing. (A pun on “hard to take.”)She is a big drink of water, but she could be worse.The lecture was a big drink of water. blah mod. bland; dull.What a blah performance!After a blah day like this I need something really exciting, like a hot bath. bore the pants off (of ) someone tr. to bore someone exceedingly.You bore the pants off me!The lecture bored the pants off of everybody. dead 1. mod. dull; lifeless; flat. This meal is sort of dead because I am out of onions.The pop went dead because someone left it open.Who wants dead pop? 2. mod. quiet and uneventful; boring. The day was totally dead.What a dead day!Things were sure dead around this town this summer. dead from the neck up mod. no longer open to new ideas.My uncle is dead from the neck up. A real fossil.Everyone on the board of directors is dead from the neck up. deadly (dull) mod. very dull.The lecture was deadly dull, and I went to sleep.What a deadly dull prof.Her story was really deadly. I am sorry I was awake for part of it. deadpan mod. dull and lifeless. (Usually said of a face, expression, etc.)What a deadpan expression!Her face is totally deadpan.He has such a deadpan approach to everything. deadpan n. a person with an expressionless face.The guy's a perfect deadpan.When you come onstage, look like a deadpan. drag n. something dull and boring.This day's a drag.What a drag. Let's go someplace interesting. dry-as-dust mod. dull; lifeless.I can't take another one of his dry-as-dust lectures.All her ideas are dry-as-dust.Some dry-as-dust old crock talked endlessly about old bones. dull as dishwater mod. very dull.She's cute, but dull as dishwater.Life can be as dull as dishwater. dullsville 1. n. a dull place. This place is just dullsville!Home is dullsville to a teenager. 2. n. something dull. The lecture was downtown dullsville for sure.When each movie I see turns into dullsville, I want to give up seeing them. ho-hum mod. dull; causing yawns.Clare played another ho-hum concert at the music hall last night.It was a hohum lecture. L7 mod. dull; square. (The L and the 7 form a square.)This guy was real, like, you know, L7.Who is the most L7 person you know? mope n. a tired and ineffectual person.I can't afford to pay mopes around here. Get to work or get out!I feel like such a mope today. sleepfest n. something, such as a dull lecture, that induces a long period of sleep.The history lecture today was a real sleepfest.The play was a sleepfest. Half the audience left before it was over. snooze n. something that is boring enough to put someone to sleep.The play was a snooze. I left before it was over.It wasn't a lecture; it was a snooze. turn someone off tr. to dull someone's interest in someone or something.The prof turned me off to the subject.The preacher set out to turn off the congregation to sin. vanilla mod. plain; dull.The entire production was sort of vanilla, but it was okay.No more vanilla music, please.The vacation was vanilla, but restful. whitebread mod. plain; dull.Naw, the whole thing is too whitebread.If I wanted a whitebread vacation, I'd have gone to the beach. yawner n. a boring show or performance.It was a yawner from the opening curtain straight through to the end.Your lecture, sir, was a total yawner. zhlubby mod. dull; boorish.Who is the zhlubby type with the plaid pants?That guy is so zhlubby!I can't sit through this zhlubby thing one more minute. all work and no play (makes Jack a dull boy)Working too much can be bad for one's health or can make one boring. Come out to the pub with us tonight! All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play isn't ideal, but I absolutely must finish this report tonight. be as dull as dishwaterTo be very boring or unexciting. This phrase is often used to describe a person. My date with Dave was not great—he is as dull as dishwater. I fell asleep during that movie because it was as dull as dishwater. (as) dull as dishwaterVery boring or unexciting. This phrase is often used to describe a person. My date with Dave was not great—he is as dull as dishwater. I fell asleep during that movie because it was as dull as dishwater. deadly dullVery boring. It seems that Ernie can make any topic deadly dull—he's just doesn't have any personality. keep it down to a dull roarTo be quiet or stop making a lot of noise; to maintain a low level of noise. Often used as an imperative. Kids, when you work together, please keep it down to a dull roar. never a dull momentThere is always something happening or changing; things are always busy or chaotic. A: "Wow, it must get pretty hectic having all these young kids running around." B: "Yep, never a dull moment!" I love that there's never a dull moment in this city. I don't think I'd be able to tolerate the silence of the countryside. (as) dull as ditchwaterVery boring or unexciting. This phrase is often used to describe a person. My date with Dave was not great—he is as dull as ditchwater. I fell asleep during that movie because it was as dull as ditchwater. dull the edge of (something)To lessen some aspect of something, often so that it is less severe or effective. Likened to dulling the edge of a blade. Unfortunately, there is little we can do to dull the edge of such an emotional issue. a dull roarA low level of noise. Kids, when you work together, please keep it down to a dull roar. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.Prov. It is not healthy for someone to work all the time and never play. (Often used to exhort someone to stop working, or to justify why you have stopped working. You can substitute the name of the person you are addressing for Jack.) Don't come to the office this weekend. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. I'd like to take a week's vacation next month. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. deadly dullvery dull. The lecture was deadly dull, and I went to sleep. Her story was really deadly dull. I am sorry I was awake for part of it. *dull as dishwaterand *dull as ditch water very uninteresting. (*Also: as ~.) I'm not surprised that he can't find a partner. He's as dull as dishwater. Mr. Black's speech was as dull as dishwater. never a dull moment[it's] always exciting around here. (Describes an exciting or hectic situation.) Every time I visit Jean, she has dozens of things planned for us to do: parties and theaters to attend, restaurants to try, scenic places to see. Never a dull moment. Alan: How was work today? Jane: First of all, my boss called me in to yell at me. Then I had to fire one of my subordinates. And then my desk chair broke when I sat down on it. Never a dull moment. all work and no play (makes Jack a dull boy)Hard work without time for recreation is not good for one's health, as in If Harry keeps up that grueling schedule, he's headed for a breakdown-all work and no play isn't healthy . A proverb included in James Howell's collection of 1659, this phrase remains so familiar that it is often shortened, as in the example. dull as dishwaterBoring, tedious, as in That lecture was dull as dishwater. The original simile, dull as ditchwater, dating from the 1700s, alluded to the muddy water in roadside ditches. In the first half of the 1900s, perhaps through mispronunciation, it became dishwater, that is, the dingy, grayish water in which dirty dishes had soaked. never a dull momentSomething is always changing or happening, as in First Lauren spits up, then she coughs, then she sneezes-never a dull moment with this baby! This expression was first recorded in 1889. dull as ditchwaterordull as dishwaterIf someone or something is as dull as ditchwater or as dull as dishwater, they are very boring. He's a dull writer and that's a fact. Dull as ditchwater. `Most of the politicians in Ontario are dull as dishwater,' he said. Note: The expression `dull as ditchwater' is over 200 years old, whereas `dull as dishwater' is a more recent variant. The reference is to the dull dirty colour of the water in ditches or in washing-up bowls. dull as dishwater (or ditchwater)extremely dull.dull the edge ofmake less sensitive, interesting, or effective.The image here is of making a knife's edge blunt. never a dull momentused to express the idea of constant (and sometimes perhaps excessive) variety and excitement. informal(as) dull as ˈditchwater(British English) (American English (as) dull as ˈdishwater) very boring: Best-seller or not, the book sounds as dull as ditchwater to me.(as) dull as dishwater mod. very dull. Life can be as dull as dishwater. dull as dishwaterverbSee as dull as dishwater deadly (dull) mod. very dull. The lecture was deadly dull, and I went to sleep. dull roar n. a relatively quiet degree of noisiness. Try to keep it at a dull roar if you can. dull as dishwaterFlat, boring. This expression began life in the eighteenth century as dull as ditchwater, alluding to the muddy color of the water in roadside gullies. “He’d be sharper than a serpent’s tooth, if he wasn’t as dull as ditchwater,” says Dickens’s Fanny Cleaver (Oliver Twist). This version survived on both sides of the Atlantic well into the twentieth century. Either through careless pronunciation or through similar analogy it occasionally became dishwater—water in which dishes had been washed and which consequently was dingy and grayish. never a dull momentSomething exciting is always occurring. This term, usually stated ironically when something dangerous, stressful, or otherwise unpleasant is happening, became common in the Royal Navy in the 1930s and spread from there across the Atlantic and to civilian situations. |
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