Despite that initial success , he found architecture stultifying .

尽管初战告捷，他还是觉得做建筑单调乏味。

Others find the hierarchy stultifying .

其他人则觉得组织单调乏味。

She says that the government knows that rapid development and modernisation are generating enormous inequality and social tension , and uses its stultifying media restraints to keep people from knowing too much and from organising .

她还评论道：政府明白，高速发展和现代化会催生很多社会不公和社会紧张情绪，通过“愚民化的”控制传媒，从而避免使大众知道更多，并且不能组织起来。

The political culture in japan is stultifying .

日本的政治文化很能唬弄人。

But living in fear of the end is as stultifying as living in hope of it .

然后生活在对未来的恐惧和生活在对未来的希望中同样让人麻木。