I looked at her hard. She had filled her bottom lip with checkerberry snuff and it gave her face a kind of dopey, hangdog look.

我紧紧地盯视着她。她的下嘴唇上沾满了黑草莓汁，这使她看起来有一种迟钝而又羞惭的神色。

Harry swerved out of the way, one idea firmly lodged in his numb brain: get to Malfoy.

哈利猛地偏离原来的方向，只有一个念头牢牢地占据着他已经迟钝的头脑：冲向。

I have no patience with people who are too slow.

我对反应太迟钝的人没什么耐心。

It limits your action and dulls your mind.

它限制了你的行动，使你的思想迟钝。

I may be very obtuse, Holmes, but I fail to see what this suggests.

摩斯，或许我的脑筋迟钝，可是我不了解这个讣告对本案有什么提示的作用。

He was a kind of slow man, though, good fellow as he was.

虽然他是个好人, 但他 是个迟钝的人。

And, you know, they're famously blunt tools.

而且，它们是出了名的迟钝工具。

Yes, my child. That dull boy was your own father in his early years.

“是的，孩子。那个迟钝的男孩就是童年时的爸爸啊。”

Of course, when you two were growing up, she was always the slow one.

当然了，你们俩时候在一起的时候她一直是反应迟钝的那一个。

Minstrel shows promoted a racist image of African-Americans as childish, dim and lazy.

“黑脸秀”表演加深了非洲裔美国人幼稚、迟钝和懒惰的种族主义形象。

Machines need not have a dulling effect.

但机器不一定会产生令人迟钝的效果。

And it can range from a sharp feeling to one that is dull and persistent.

它可以从剧烈的感受变化到那种迟钝而持续的感觉。

An earache is a sharp, dull or burning pain in the ear.

耳痛是耳部剧烈的，迟钝的或灼热的疼痛。

Muddled Assumptions of Better Alternatives Of course, they're a bit awful, the question is whether one is dealing with an especially obtuse sort or just another member of our collectively maddening species.

对更好选择的错误假设当然，他们有点糟糕，但问题是，我们面对的是一个特别迟钝的人，还是只是芸芸众生中又一个让人抓狂的普通人？

" Yes, but still, " said Hermione, with an air of explaining something very simple to somebody very obtuse, " even if you do cause a diversion, how is Harry supposed to talk to him? "

“是啊，但是尽管如此，”赫敏说，脸上的神情就像是在对某个非常迟钝的人解释一些非常简单的事情，“就算你们确实能做到调虎离山，可哈利该怎么和他谈话呢？”

They were here in these haunted woods where the slanting afternoon sun gleamed eerily through unmoving leaves, friends and foes, peering at her in her rickety wagon, through eyes blinded with blood and red dust — glazed, horrible eyes.

他们就在这阴森森的树林里，在傍晚斜阳透过静止的树叶胆怯地照着的地方，无论朋友和仇敌，都一样用沾满鲜血和红土的眼睛、用迟钝而可怕的目光、窥视着破车里的她呢！

At that moment, it occurred to me if I could teach mathematics to someone as dull-witted as my sister, I could create a race of superhumans that would do my bidding.

那一刻，我灵光一现，如果我能把数学教会给迟钝如我妹妹的人，我完全可以创造出一支对我言听计从超级人类。

The picture was so strong it had stayed with him all his life. His dull, blind eyes saw the end again as they had in the far off past.

他们看到了结局。这幅画如此强烈，使他终生难忘。他那迟钝的、瞎了的眼睛又看到了结局。

I was the kind of the dopey Asian kid and I sometimes would be not punished for that, I would be bullied for that.

我是那种迟钝的亚洲孩子，有时我不会因此受到惩罚，我会因此受到欺负。"

Our language ennobles meat at the expense of veg: strong, muscular types are " beefy" , lazy people are " couch potatoes" , unresponsive ones " vegetables" .

我们的语言以牺牲蔬菜为代价来崇尚肉食：强壮的肌肉型人士是“牛肉味的”（beefy），懒惰的人却是“沙发土豆”，反应迟钝的人则是“蔬菜型”。