This has blunted a key channel of monetary policy and led to large numbers of foreclosures .

这削弱了货币政策的一条关键渠道，导致了大量的止赎事件。

The drug blunted his senses .

药使得他的感觉迟钝了。

If you blunted this stick .

如果你把这个磨钝些。

Thanks to the minimum wage and tax credits for poor working families , the forces relentlessly pushing up income inequality under margaret thatcher have been blunted .

因为采取了针对贫困工人家庭的最低工资和课税扣除制度，在玛格丽特撒切尔统治时期造成收入差距持续扩大的那些力量已经减弱。

Has a history of ambition and plunder by the powerful got so blunted by rising prosperity that it will never repeat itself ?

一个拥有野心勃勃的扩张历史的强大国家，随因为日渐繁荣而变得迟钝，但过往的历史永远不会重演吗？