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As a verb, to lull someone means to make them calm and sleepy, often with soft sound or gentle movement — like music that lulls a baby to sleep. It can also mean to make someone feel safe when they should actually stay careful, as in 'lulled into a false sense of security', a common exam phrase. As a noun, a lull is a short quiet stretch in the middle of something busy or noisy, like 'a lull in the conversation' or 'a lull in the storm.'
(動詞)哄睡、使平靜;(名詞)暫時平靜、空檔
組成No clear parts — the word imitates a soft, repeating sound, close to 'lullaby.'
同家族的字
- lullabya song used to lull a baby to sleep
原始詞典資料8 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Lullname
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A surname.
lullnoun/lʌl/
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A period of rest or soothing.
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A period of reduced activity; a respite.
- After this departure there is a lull—one can almost feel the weary station breathing thankfulness!—broken only by the car-sleeper departing at 10.25 from Platform 6 […]. There is normally another lull from 1.45 to 4.30 a.m. till the daily round begins again, […].
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nauticaltransportA period without waves or wind.
- […] during the lull, wind shifted to S. E. […]
- After the lull the wind does not appear to have blown with any great strength […]
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hobbieslifestylesportsAn extended pause between sets of waves.
- It is advisable to leave the surf zone during the lull between sets of larger waves, waiting outside the surf zone for a lull.
- About 2 hours in, a long lull cleared everyone out, and then it started getting a little more consistent and pushing chest ta neck high.
lullverb/lʌl/
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To cause to rest by soothing influences; to compose; to calm
- To lull him soft a sleepe
- Such ſweet compulſion doth in muſick ly, / To lull the daughers of Neceſſity,
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To become gradually calm; to subside; to cease or abate.
- The storm lulled.
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To give somebody a false sense of security so that an unpleasant situation takes the person by surprise.
- They lulled us into thinking we still had time.
- […] similarly, the empiriocritics' opposition to religion was a fraud intended to lull the vigilance of the proletariat and lead it by different paths in the same direction as religious mythology.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。