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单词 lull
释义
lull
verb[T]
uk
/lʌl/us
/lʌl/
tocausesomeone tofeelcalmor tofeelthat theywanttosleep:
使安静，使平和；使发困
Themotionof thecaralmostlulled hertosleep.汽车的颠簸让她昏昏欲睡。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Calming and relaxing
  • assuage
  • balls-to-the-wall
  • bask
  • bread
  • bread and circusesidiom
  • calm
  • chill
  • humour
  • let/blow off steamidiom
  • lie down
  • lightensomethingup
  • lullsomeoneintosomething
  • makeyourselfat homeidiom
  • relaxation
  • settle
  • shirt
  • simmer
  • simmer down
  • slow down
  • slow lane
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Phrasal verb

lullsomeoneintosomething
lull
noun[C]
uk
/lʌl/us
/lʌl/
ashortperiodofcalmin which littlehappens:
平静时期；间歇
There has been a lullinthefighting.战斗中出现了一段间歇。
a lull in theconversation/traffic谈话的间歇／交通低谷
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Pauses & interludes
  • abeyance
  • adjournment
  • break
  • break-journey
  • caesura
  • coffee break
  • comfort stop
  • hiatus
  • interlude
  • intermission
  • interval
  • lapse
  • moratorium
  • one-stop
  • pause
  • plateau
  • postponement
  • respite
  • smoko
  • suspension
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Idiom

the lull before the storm
(Definition oflullfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

lull| American Dictionary

lull
verb[T]
us
/lʌl/
tocausesomeone tofeelcalm,sleepy, orsafe:
Themusiclulled theinfanttosleep.
We were all lulled intothinkingthey wouldn't do anything.
lull
noun[C]
us
/lʌl/
aperiodofquietorreducedactivity:
a lull in theconversation
(Definition oflullfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

lull| Business English

lull
noun[C]
uk
/lʌl/us
ashortperiodofcalmin which littlehappens:
After thesummerlull,businesshaspickedup again thismonth.
a lull in sthIwaitedfor a lull in theproceedingstopopout for aquickcigarette.
(Definition oflullfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoflull

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Responses during active network states (spindle waves) were significantly different from those occurring during silent states (interspindle lulls).
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The unwary will be lulled into a false sense of security and happily accept a possibly wrong result.
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The narrator makes it plain ("for instance") that he is rendering conversations and not lulling the reader unaware directly into live discourse.
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Enumerated commas and semi-colons fortify this impression by creating elongated, lulling syntactic structures that are reminiscent of those found in nursery rhymes.
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Over the 1990s, the booming economy and stock market may have lulled people into a sense of complacency that good times were here to stay.
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Finally, in most cases, the pursuit of non-agricultural activities is a year-round phenomenon, subject primarily to fluctuations in local purchasing power rather than seasonal lulls in the agricultural work calendar.
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The concentration of traditional language teaching upon literary texts and newspaper articles has perhaps lulled course designers, teachers, and students into a false sense of security.
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There was a feeling that something was in the air, that it was thelullbefore the storm.
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At midnight, there was an abruptlulland the water drum was put away.
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He believes that "worldwide we are beginning to see hesitant signs of recovery, but thelullon the domestic market continues".
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In spite of thislull, unit labour cost was very high by past standards.
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Only the advent of the rainy season brought about alull.
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Did itlullher subjects into a false sense of openness ?
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A lullaby is a vocal piece of music specifically designed tolulla child to sleep by using a repeated formula.
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Alull(inter-epizootic interval) follows the epizootic, and raccoon rabies is markedly reduced and may seem to disappear.
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