Others find the hierarchy stultifying.

其他人觉得等级制度太严苛。

Was it his stultifying offense that brought most games to a halt?

还是让大部分比赛半途而废的愚蠢进攻方式？

The environment can be stultifying, unhealthy, too political and so on.

环境的问题可能在于让人感觉徒劳无功、不健康或是太勾心斗角等等。

It's a wonderful, liberating break from that infantile, stultifying convention.

从那幼稚和愚蠢的公约中解放是美妙的。

It came as a relief from the stultifying uniformity that he knew at home in France.

这一感受来自于对极其乏味单调的千篇一律的解脱，他在法国国内就已熟知那种千篇一律了。

By mid-century, Russia had for years been in the stultifying grip of Tsar Nicholas I’s harsh orthodoxy.

到世纪中叶的时候，俄罗斯的沙皇尼古拉斯一世残酷的统治好几年前就已经在这里失去了效力。

But if you have ever tried to actually do this, you know what a mind-numbing, stultifying, time-consuming chore.

但是，如果你尝试过真正做到这一点，你知道什么是头脑麻木，头脑僵化，耗时零工。

Once I was dressed in the little bit of shorts, I opened the door to the yoga studio and was met with a rush of hot, stultifying air.

一次，我穿着小短裤，打开瑜珈馆的门，迎面就吹来一股热而闷的空气。

Those unsung heroes are lauded by netizens, who are turned off domestic TV screens marred by stultifying melodramas, rigid formulaic news coverage, soppy tear-jerkers and saccharine films.

网民们会称赞这些躲在幕后的英雄，他们不再面对着家中的电视屏幕，因为那播出的是些乏味单调的情节剧、严肃古板的新闻报道、催人泪下和腻人的电影。

But, like millions of other young women, they relish their freedom from the stultifying conformity of rural life, where women are at the constant beck and call of fathers, brothers and husbands.

但是，就像其他年轻的女性们一样，跟家乡的枯燥生活比起来，她们很中意现在的自由生活-在乡下，她们永远都要俯首听命与父亲兄弟和丈夫的指使。