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。