lull
vt. 使鎮靜,使安靜; 哄,哄騙; 使入睡
vi. 平靜,安靜; 平息; 減弱; 停止
n. 暫停; 間歇; 暫時平靜; 催眠的東西
A lull is a period of quiet or calm in a longer period of activity or excitement.
There was a lull in political violence after the election of the current president.
現任總統當選之後,政治暴力進入了一段暫時的平靜期。
...a lull in the conversation.
談話中的一時沉寂
If you are lulled into feeling safe, someone or something causes you to feel safe at a time when you are not safe.
It is easy to be lulled into a false sense of security...
很容易就會被麻痺,進而產生一種虛假的安全感。
I had been lulled into thinking the publicity would be a trivial matter...
我錯誤地相信了媒體的報道只是小事一樁。
If someone or something lulls you, they cause you to feel calm or sleepy.
With the shutters half-closed and the calm airy height of the room to lull me, I soon fell into a doze...
半掩的百葉窗和寧靜、通風的高大房間催我入睡,我很快便打起盹來。
The swish of the tyres lulled him into a light doze...
車輪呼呼地轉著,他不一會兒便打起瞌睡來。
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.
1. a pause during which things are calm or activities are diminished;
2. a period of calm weather;
1. calm by deception;
2. become quiet or less intensive;
3. make calm or still;
lull sb to do sth
哄某人做某事
the lull before the storm
見 storm
I can't lull her fears.
我無法消除她的恐懼.
Lakers coach Phil Jackson has a theory on their recent scoring lull.
湖人隊主教練菲爾傑克遜從最近進攻低迷中得出一個結論.
This is just the lull before the storm.
這只是暴風雨前的暫時平靜.
It took us all night to lull the baby to sleep.
我們花了一整夜時間才把嬰兒哄睡著.
Yossarian was alone in a ponderous, primeval lull in which everything green looked black.
在這陣給人一種太古時代沉重之感的寂靜裡,尤索林有種孤獨的感覺, 他覺得綠綠的東西看上去好象是黑的.