2008年7月29日 星期二

Stultify


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–verb (used with object) 

1. to make, or cause to appear, foolish or ridiculous. 

2. to render absurdly or wholly futile (無益的) or ineffectual, esp. by degrading or frustrating means: 



Menial (奴顏婢膝的) work can stultify the [mind].  



3. Law. to allege or prove (oneself or another) to be of unsound mind.  



—Synonyms 

2. cripple, impede, frustrate, hinder, thwart.





daisy_miller  

After society matron Mrs. Walker ostracizes her, Daisy's final rash action reveals to Winterbourne how his old-fashioned mores may have [sealed] her fate. With a screenplay by Frederic Raphael and location shooting in Rome and Switzerland, Bogdanovich carefully recreated the 



rich surroundings and stultifying social [strictures] of James' story.
   





see stifle to stifle a [yawn]



thwart

baffle affable amiable



bashful

diffident timid

tepid lukewarm


















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