benumbs
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Intemperance benumbs the moral and spiritual powers and prepares the way for indulgence of the lower passions. | La intemperancia entorpece las facultades morales y espirituales, y prepara el dominio de las pasiones bajas. |
Tea has an influence to excite the nerves, and coffee benumbs the brain; both are highly injurious. | El té ejerce una influencia excitante de los nervios, y el café oscurece el cerebro; los dos son muy perjudiciales. |
The daughter is fretful, partaking of the spirit of the father; and then the heated, oppressed atmosphere, deprived of vitality, benumbs the sensitive brain. | La hija es inquieta, participa del espíritu del padre; además, la atmósfera recalentada y opresiva, desprovista de vitalidad, adormece el cerebro sensible. |
He tempts men to the indulgence of appetite or to some other form of self-gratification, and thus benumbs their sensibilities so that they fail to hear the very things which they most need to learn. | Tienta a los hombres para que cedan a la glotonería o a cualquier otra forma de sensualidad, y adormece de tal modo su sensibilidad que dejan de oír precisamente las cosas que más necesitan saber. |
Profound boredom and appalling incivility benumbs the mind of the child and dulls sensitivity and all that makes him or her human. What's left is frustration, anxiety, self-loathing, depression, and rage. | Pero incluso es peor que eso, ya que un profundo aburrimiento y apabullante incivilidad paralizan la mente del niño y adormecen la sensibilidad y todo lo que hace de él o ella humanos. |
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