| 单词 | lull |
| 释义 | lull (once / 806 pages) vn See lull, think "calm." It could be the noun form (like "the lull before the storm") or the verb: one can lull someone by calming them (as in lulling a baby to sleep with a lullaby). The noun lull is often used in relation to a storm, but the term has a broader meaning as well. Lull can be used to describe any temporary period of calm or diminished activity, like the quiet time before the lunch rush in a restaurant or the brief period of tranquility before the doors open for a pre-Christmas sale. The word's verb form means "to soothe or to make someone feel relaxed." When used as a verb lull can turn deceptive, and it is often used to convey a false sense of security. WORD FAMILYlull: lulled, lulling, lulls USAGE EXAMPLESSanchez said risks increase when drivers are lulled in stop-and-go traffic. Seattle Times(Jan 01, 2017) The result is that Attenborough and others “are lulling the huge worldwide audience into a false sense of security,” he said. The Guardian(Jan 01, 2017) A booming economy in the nineteen-fifties intersected with a demographic lull, resulting in “more job vacancies than there are graduates.” The New Yorker(Dec 29, 2016) 1v make calm or still Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper calm, calm down, quiet, quieten, still, tranquilize, tranquillise, tranquillize agitate, charge, charge up, commove, excite, rouse, turn on cause to be agitated, excited, or roused compose calm (someone, especially oneself); make quiet appease, assuage, conciliate, gentle, gruntle, lenify, mollify, pacify, placatecause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of assure, reassurecause to feel sure; give reassurance to comfort, console, solace, soothe give moral or emotional strength to 2v calm by deception Don't let yourself be lulled into a false state of security Hyper calm, calm down, quiet, quieten, still, tranquilize, tranquillise, tranquillize make calm or still 3v become quiet or less intensive the fighting lulled for a moment Syn|Hyper calm down hush, hush up, quieten, shut up, silence, still cause to be quiet or not talk 4n a pause during which things are calm or activities are diminished Syn|Hyper letup break, intermission, interruption, pause, suspension a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something 5n a period of calm weather there was a lull in the storm Syn|Hyper quiet calmness an absence of strong winds or rain |
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