lulls

英 [lʌlz] 美 [lʌlz]

n.  (活动间的)平静时期，间歇
v.  使放松; 使镇静; (使)减弱; 缓和
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  1. N-COUNT 间歇期；平静期
    A lull is a period of quiet or calm in a longer period of activity or excitement.
    1. There was a lull in political violence after the election of the current president.
      现任总统当选之后，政治暴力进入了一段暂时的平静期。
    2. ...a lull in the conversation.
      谈话中的一时沉寂
  2. VERB 哄骗；麻痹；使放松警惕
    If you are lulled into feeling safe, someone or something causes you to feel safe at a time when you are not safe.
    1. It is easy to be lulled into a false sense of security...
      很容易就会被麻痹，进而产生一种虚假的安全感。
    2. I had been lulled into thinking the publicity would be a trivial matter...
      我错误地相信了媒体的报道只是小事一桩。
    3. Lulled by almost uninterrupted economic growth, too many European firms assumed that this would last for ever.
      近乎持续的经济增长使许多欧洲公司误以为会好景长在。
  3. VERB 使安静；使昏昏欲睡
    If someone or something lulls you, they cause you to feel calm or sleepy.
    1. With the shutters half-closed and the calm airy height of the room to lull me, I soon fell into a doze...
      半掩的百叶窗和宁静、通风的高大房间催我入睡，我很快便打起盹来。
    2. The swish of the tyres lulled him into a light doze...
      车轮呼呼地转着，他不一会儿便打起瞌睡来。
    3. Before he knew it, the heat and hum of the forest had lulled him to sleep.
      森林里的热气和嗡嗡的声音让他不知不觉便睡着了。
  4. 暴风雨前的宁静
    If you describe a situation as the lull before the storm, you mean that although it is calm now, there is going to be trouble in the future.
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    双语例句

    1. Deploy new tools during lulls in the development cycle
      在开发周期的间歇部署新的开发工具
    2. In the traditional storage model, you'd need to buy a bunch of space on a rack somewhere ( or provide your own hardware and pipe leading to it) and most likely see spikes of downloads followed by lulls of relatively low activity.
      在传统的存储模型中，您需要在某处机架上购买许多空间（或提供通向它的硬件和管道），很可能下载量很大，但随后会相对降低。
    3. However, the number of servers can also be increased to accommodate short-term spikes in traffic or decreased during periodic lulls.
      但是，服务器的数量也可以增加以应对短期流量剧增，或在一定的间歇期间减少。
    4. Most of them have experienced career lulls and hardships in addition to their successes.
      他们大多数人在成功之外都经历过事业停滞的时候，也遭遇过艰难困苦。
    5. We don't want to turn the safety net into a hammock that lulls people into lives of complacency and dependency.
      我们不想这个社会保障系统变成一个诱导群众变得自满和依赖的毒药。
    6. The blurring of divisions between work and home lulls us sintosa sense that work is going to be as actively enjoyable as leisure.
      工作和家庭生活的模糊界限使我们有种错觉，似乎工作应该和休闲活动一样让我们乐在其中。
    7. Up on Athens, Normandy and Sparrow Hawk, the Royal Marines like to soak up the sun during lulls in the fighting.
      在雅典、诺曼底与食雀鹰山头之上，战事间歇时，皇家海军陆战队员喜欢沉浸在阳光中。
    8. It puts our children to sleep and lulls us into a calm, dreamlike state.
      摇晃能让孩子进入梦乡，也能将我们引人一种平静的、梦幻般的心境。
    9. One of those unfortunate lulls in the conversation.
      谈话中那几次叫人尴尬的冷场。
    10. For the monotonous rhythm of the wheels clicking on the rails soon lulls you to sleep.
      车轮与铁轨间单调的嘎喳声很快就会送你进入梦乡。
    11. He said similar lulls in the coming days would be considered.
      他说在即将来到的日子里相似的暂停将被考虑。
    12. Notice there were several lulls in our space program as we found out new things, and then geared up to take into account the malevolence of outer space.
      注意，当在太空计划中发现新事物时，我们会有几个间歇的时间，然后准备外太空的恶毒威胁考虑进去。
    13. It lulls you to sleep only to stand by your bed and jeer at the dignity of the flesh.
      它诱惑你们入睡，只为站在你们床边，嘲笑肉体的尊严。
    14. She lolls on the sofa and lulls herself with mulled beer or by mulling over how to make a mull of all dolls that dare to loll their heads on the shoulders of her sterling darling.
      她闲躺在沙发上，而藉加料温啤酒来给自己催眠，或藉熟思如何搞垮所有那些美娃们，那些美娃胆敢把头闲靠在她真正的爱人的肩膀上。
    15. There were also comedy acts, impromptu skits, and DJ music to fill the lulls between acts.
      也有充满在行为之间的间歇的喜剧行为，即兴之作若干，和DJ音乐。
    16. Down there everything is so still and silent that it lulls me to sleep.
      下面那里一切都是静止的、沉默的，它催我入睡。
    17. Auto Scaling-A service that manages the number of instances used, scales up during demand spikes and scales down during demand lulls
      自动的可伸缩服务&该服务管理着所用的实例数量，当请求数量增加时会扩容，当请求数量降低时会缩减
    18. Ralph: This guy? His voice is so monotone that it lulls me to sleep every time I hear it.
      这个人？他的嗓音很单调，每次我听他说话都会睡着。
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