| 词汇 | lulling |
| 释义 | lulling present participle oflull lull verb[ T ] uk /lʌl/ us /lʌl/ to cause someone to feel calm or to feel that they want to sleep: 使安静，使平和;使发困 The motion of the car almost lulled her to sleep.汽车的颠簸让她昏昏欲睡。 Calming and relaxing appease assuage balls-to-the-wall bask bread chill compose let/blow off steamidiom lie down lighten something up lull lull someone into something melt relaxation self-soothe settle settle down shirt simmer simmer down Phrasal verblull someone into something Examples of lullinglulling In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. The narrator makes it plain ("for instance") that he is rendering conversations and not lulling the reader unaware directly into live discourse. The largely syllabic declamation, the slow-moving harmonic rhythm and the lulling bass line project a maternal calm even as they evoke the 'sleep of death'. That lulling action is in itself a political act, and yet one that we are encouraged not to recognize as such. Hughes's (often nine-part) choral writing is by turns blistering and soothing, just as the instrumental underlay is both lulling and frenetic. This phenomenon of lulling operates at a more sophisticated level as well. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 You are lulling the public opinion of the country into false security by producing ships, which may after all be valueless when launched. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I have my own scruples, like many others, about how far you can ultimately feather-bed poets and artists without lulling their genius into fashion-ability. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Again, with regard to the people of this country, there is nothing to be achieved by lulling them into a fool's paradise. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I mean what one might call "lulling for profit". From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The policy of first exhausting the country has been followed by a policy of lulling our suspicions. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Posters throughout the country trumpeted that pledge, lulling the electorate into a false sense of security. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 What he has said could be either a dramatic retreat or a mean trick aimed at lulling the growing opposition. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 However, nothing happened in these discussions or in the agreement that in any way meant any lulling or creation of false security. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 When a society pulls the blankets over its head it is lulling itself into a false sense of security and hoping that the problems outside those blankets will go away. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Such speed limits can create hazardous conditions for other road users, particularly pedestrians, by lulling them into a false sense of security, seemingly offered by the speed limits sign. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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