基本释义
- adj.
- 钝的，不锋利的; 直率的; 呆板的
- v.
- 使减弱; 使迟钝
实用例句
a blunt knife
钝刀子
牛津词典
This pencil's blunt !
这支铅笔不尖了！
牛津词典
The police said he had been hit with a blunt instrument .
警方说他遭到了钝器袭击。
牛津词典
She has a reputation for blunt speaking.
她说话出了名的直截了当。
牛津词典
To be blunt, your work is appalling.
坦率地说，你的活干得糟透了。
牛津词典
Age hadn't blunted his passion for adventure.
岁月没有冲淡他的冒险激情。
牛津词典
One of them had been struck 13 times over the head with a blunt object.
他们中有一个人的头部被钝器击打13次。
The constant repetition of violence has blunted the human response to it...
反复出现的暴力事件使人们的反应都变得麻木了。
Our appetite was blunted by the beer.
喝啤酒让我们没有了胃口。
She told the industry in blunt terms that such discrimination is totally unacceptable.
她直截了当地告诉业界，这种歧视是完全无法接受的。
She is blunt about her personal life...
她对自己的私生活直言不讳。
Do not worry over being quite blunt and honest with them.
和他们在一起不用担心太过直率和坦诚.
期刊摘选
Now the issue came with blunt and brutal force.
但在现在,问题却来得那么直截了当而粗暴.
辞典例句
The Fed still thinks interest rates are too blunt a tool for the job.
美联储仍然认为利率是用来解决危机的太过鲁莽的经济工具.
期刊摘选
Are they consistent with blunt force trauma?
有可能是用钝器外力重击所致 吗 ?
电影对白
The axe is too blunt to cut down the tree.
斧头太钝,砍不倒树.
《简明英汉词典》
The one breath is throughout blunt, otherwise thoroughfare would a cut a to break.
一口气冲到底, 否则通路会一截一截地断掉.
期刊摘选
That fellow is really blunt.
这人真艮.
辞典例句
CHEMOTHERAPY, used to treat cancer since the 1940 s , is a blunt instrument.
从上世纪40年代起, 一种精确度很低的疗法, 化学疗法开始被应用.
期刊摘选
The knife is blunt.
刀钝了.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
That's the blunt fact.
事实确实是那样.
《现代英汉综合大词典》
I have to grind the knife; it is blunt.
我得磨刀; 它钝了.
辞典例句
She is rather blunt in speech.
她说话很直率.
《简明英汉词典》
The device is a needle with a blunt tip that moves freely within a copper handle.
假针的顶端是钝头,在一个铜管里自由滑动.
期刊摘选
The knife is blunt. I'll edge it.
这把刀钝了, 我要把它磨一磨.
《简明英汉词典》
真题例句
It is an ambitious attempt to blunt the sharpest edges of globalization, and make capitalism benign.
2011年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ英英释义
1. make less intense;
"blunted emotions"
2. make numb or insensitive;
"The shock numbed her senses"
3. make dull or blunt;
"Too much cutting dulls the knife's edge"
4. make less sharp;
"blunt the knives"
5. make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation;
"Terror blunted her feelings"
"deaden a sound"
1. having a broad or rounded end;
"thick marks made by a blunt pencil"
2. used of a knife or other blade; not sharp;
"a blunt instrument"
3. characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion;
"blunt talking and straight shooting"
"a blunt New England farmer"
"I gave them my candid opinion"
"forthright criticism"
"a forthright approach to the problem"
"tell me what you think--and you may just as well be frank"
"it is possible to be outspoken without being rude"
"plainspoken and to the point"
"a point-blank accusation"
4. devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment;
"the blunt truth"
"the crude facts"
"facing the stark reality of the deadline"