Pessimism blunts the tools you need to succeed.

悲观会让你成功需要的工具变钝。

This appearance is misleading and blunts the urgent call for policy change.

这一表象具有误导性，减弱了改变政策的紧迫性。

One reasonable explanation is that etching removes and blunts microcracks.

有一种合理的解释是说腐蚀能够去掉并钝化微裂纹。

Even if higher private saving blunts the effect, some crowding out is eventually all too likely.

即使更多的个人储蓄会弱化这一效应，某些挤出效应还是会最终产生。

If regulation makes competition less intense, it blunts companies' incentives to raise productivity and thwart their rivals.

如果管制致使激烈竞争的缺失，这将降低企业提高生产率的动机并使之厌恶竞争。

Similarly conflict between opposites only blunts the Mind-heart and it is this dullness that prevents the understanding of the problem.

在对立面之间类似的冲突只是削弱了理智和心灵，而正是这种迟钝阻碍了对问题的理解。

This not only blunts Mr McCain's most powerful criticism of Mr Obama. It also raises serious questions about the way he makes decisions.

这不但使麦凯恩对奥巴马最强有力的批评大打折扣，也使他的决策方式出现了严重的问题。

But what is important in all this is to understand, not intellectually, the mechanism of habit-forming which gradually destroys or blunts all feeling.

但是，其中最重要的是，了解习惯形成的机制——这种了解并非是智力上的——是习惯的形成逐渐破坏了或者钝化了所有的感受。

Just how exercising before breakfast blunts the deleterious effects of overindulging is not completely understood, although this study points toward several intriguing explanations.

不过，对于早餐前的锻炼是如何降低暴饮暴食给身体带来的伤害尚未完全弄清，虽然该研究给出了一些有意思的解释。