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。她下嘴唇上沾满黑草莓汁，这使她看起来有一种钝而又羞惭神色。

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

哈利猛地偏离原来方向，只有一个念头牢牢地占据着他已经钝头脑：冲向马尔福。

I have no patience with people who are too slow.

我对反应太钝人没什么耐心。

It limits your action and dulls your mind.

它限制你行动，使你思想钝。

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

福尔摩斯，或许我脑筋钝，可是我这个讣告对本案有什么提示作用。

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

虽然他是个好人, 但他 是个钝人。

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

而且，它们是出钝工具。

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

“是，孩子。那个钝男孩就是童年时爸爸啊。”

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

当然，你们俩小时候在一起时候她一直是反应钝那一个。

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

“黑脸秀”表演加深非洲裔美国人幼稚、钝和懒惰种族主义形象。

Machines need not have a dulling effect.

但机器一定会产生令人钝效果。

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

它可以从剧烈感受变化到那种钝而持续感觉。

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

耳痛是耳部剧烈，钝或灼热疼痛。

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.

对更好选择错误假设当然，他们有点糟糕，但问题是，我们面对是一个特别钝人，还是只是芸芸众生中又一个让人抓狂普通人？

" 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，脸上神情就像是在对某个非常钝人释一些非常简单事情，“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.

他们就在这阴森森树林里，在傍晚斜阳透过静止树叶胆怯地照着地方，无论朋友和仇敌，都一样用沾满鲜血和红土眼睛、用钝而可怕目光、窥视着破马车里她呢！

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钝如我妹妹人，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.

他们看到结局。这幅画如此强烈，使他终生难忘。他那钝、瞎眼睛又看到结局。

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

我是那种钝亚洲孩子，有时我会因此受到惩罚，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" .

我们语言以牺牲蔬菜为代价来崇尚肉食：强壮肌肉型人士是“牛肉味”（beefy），懒惰人却是“沙发土豆”，反应钝人则是“蔬菜型”。