idleness
英 ['aɪdlnəs]
美['aɪdlnɪs]
- n. 懒惰;闲散;失业
词态变化
形容词: idle;
英英释意
- 1. having no employment
- 2. the trait of being idle out of a reluctance to work
英文词源
- idleness (n.)
- Old English idelnes "frivolity, vanity, emptiness; vain existence;" see idle + -ness. Old English expressed the idea we attach to in vain by in idelnisse. Spenser, Scott, and others use idlesse to mean the same thing in a positive, pleasant sense.
考试真题
- "Idleness is not just a vacation, an indulgence or a vice; It is as indispensable to be brain as vitamin D is to the body...[idleness] is, paradoxically, necessary to getting any work done," he argues.
2018年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
实用场景例句
- Idleness is a very bad thing for human nature.
- 懒散是人性中很糟糕的一面。
柯林斯例句
- Braccio was a hater of idleness.
- 布拉乔痛恨游手好闲。
柯林斯例句
- The closure of the large factory made many workers live in idleness.
- 那家大工厂的关闭使许多工人失业.
《简明英汉词典》
- Idleness enervates the will to succeed.
- 懒惰削弱了成功的决心.
《简明英汉词典》
- Business may be troublesome, but idleness is pernicious.
- 事业虽扰人, 怠惰害更大.
《简明英汉词典》
- He can't bear idleness.
- 闲着不干事他可受不了.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
- We became suspended in some stately never-never land of pleasure, luxury and idleness.
- 我们流连忘返大气、奢华、惬意、闲适的世外桃源。
柯林斯例句
- They were condemned to spend a fortnight of idleness at that lonely island.
- 他们被迫在那个孤岛上待了两个星期.
《简明英汉词典》
- The school boy took it ill that the teacher reproved him for idleness.
- 这个小学生心里不痛快,因为老师责备他不用功.
《简明英汉词典》
- I don't like to moon away this Sunday in idleness.
- 我不愿意无所事事地度过这个星期天.
辞典例句
- It was a bore to train, and it interfered with his idleness.
- 训练使他腻烦, 不合他懒散的性格.
辞典例句
- This suited her very well as she had no taste for idleness.
- 这对她很合适,因为她从不喜欢游手好闲.
辞典例句
- It is above the common mass , above idleness, above want, above insignificance.
- 这是超出一般人 、 超出懒散、超出贫困 、 值得重视的事情.
辞典例句
- He was tired of rotting from idleness at Rome.
- 他呆在罗马,无所事事,对于一切都十分厌倦.
辞典例句
- At this moment she was the image of a victim of idleness.
- 在这一间,她完全是一副颓唐消沉的样子.
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