| 正面 | 5148.dull 英 [dʌl]美 [dʌl]     |
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| 背面 |     释义： 1. PIE root *ghel- "shine, glitter, glow" => Proto-Germanic *glim- => gleam, glimmer, glimpse.2. glimmer is a frequentative from Proto-Germanic *glim-, originally "shine brightly," Sense shifted 15c. to "shine faintly".3. PIE root *ghel- "shine, glitter, glow" => glow, glitter, glister, glisten, glint, glad.adj. 钝的；迟钝的；无趣的；呆滞的；阴暗的vt. 使迟钝；使阴暗；缓和vi. 减少；变迟钝n. (Dull)人名；(罗、匈)杜尔；(柬)杜；(英)达尔 例句： 1. The evidence was read out to the court in a dull monotone.证据被当庭呆板地宣读了一遍。 dull 沉闷的PIE*dheu, 烟尘，烟雾，词源同dust, deaf, dumb. dulldull: [13] Dull originally meant ‘slow-witted’. It was borrowed from Middle Low German dul, a descendant of the prehistoric Germanic adjective *dulaz, which also produced German toll and Old English dol ‘stupid’ (the Old English adjective does not seem to have survived beyond the 10th century). The modern meaning ‘boring’ developed in the 15th century. The now littleused dullard [15] is a derivative (reflecting the adjective’s original sense), as also is probably dolt [16].=> doltdull (adj.)c. 1200, "stupid;" early 13c., "blunt, not sharp;" rare before mid-14c., apparently from Old English dol "dull-witted, foolish," or an unrecorded parallel word, or from Middle Low German dul "slow-witted," both from Proto-Germanic *dulaz (cognates: Old Frisian and Old Saxon dol "foolish," Old High German tol, German toll "mad, wild," Gothic dwals "foolish"), from PIE *dheu- (1) "dust, vapor, smoke" (and related notions of "defective perception or wits"). Of color from early 15c.; of pain or other sensations from 1725. Sense of "boring" first recorded 1580s. dull. (8) Not exhilarating; not delightful; as to make dictionaries is dull work. [Johnson] Dullsville, slang for "town where nothing happens," attested from 1960.dull (v.)c. 1200, "to grow weary, tire;" of pointed or edged things from c. 1400; of the senses from 1550s; from dull (adj.). Related: Dulled; dulling." |