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idleness

英 ['aɪdlnəs] 美['aɪdlnɪs]

英英释义考试真题实用场景例句

近义词inertia

n. 懒惰；闲散；失业

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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.

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。

Braccio was a hater of idleness.: 布拉乔痛恨游手好闲。

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.

Idleness enervates the will to succeed.: 懒惰削弱了成功的决心.

Business may be troublesome, but idleness is pernicious.: 事业虽扰人, 怠惰害更大.

He can't bear idleness.: 闲着不干事他可受不了.

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。

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.