stultify

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The regular use of calculators could stultify a child's capacity to do basic mental operations.
經(jīng)常使用計(jì)算器會(huì)使孩子用腦進(jìn)行基本運(yùn)算的能力變得遲鈍。
Both the LHC and the Space program are vital if the human race is not to stultify and eventually die out.
LHC和空間項(xiàng)目對(duì)人類都至關(guān)重要——如果人類不想一代代笨下去并最終滅亡的話。
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.
他也賺過一點(diǎn)錢，而且如果他肯昧良心的話，原有很好的機(jī)會(huì)可以多賺的，但是這樣的事情他始終不干。

The level of supervision needed to root out all the mediocre will also stultify the brilliant.
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The move towards it, in fact, if implemented too quickly, could stultify economic growth.
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But greed, in fact, prompts capitalists to seek government guarantees and subsidies that denature and stultify the works of entrepreneurs.
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If something stultifies you, or if it stultifies your energy or ambition, it makes you feel empty or dull in your mind, because it is so boring.
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