torpid

• adj. 迟钝的，迟缓的；不活泼的；麻痹的；[生物] 蛰伏的

来自 torpor,懒散，无力。

1. slow and apathetic;

"she was fat and inert"

"a sluggish worker"

"a mind grown torpid in old age"

2. in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation;

"dormant buds"

"a hibernating bear"

"torpid frogs"

torpid

torpid: [17] Torpid was acquired from Latin torpidus, a derivative of torpēre ‘be stiff, numb, inactive, etc’. Also from torpēre came torpēdō, which was applied to a type of fish capable of producing an electric shock with which it numbs its prey. English adopted the term as torpedo [16]. The fish is long and thin, and in the 1860s its name was applied to an underwater selfpropelled missile which shares its shape, and its disconcerting effect on enemies (it had earlier, from the late 18th century, been used for a sort of underwater mine).
=> torpedo

torpid (adj.)

1610s, "benumbed, without feeling or power," from Latin torpidus "benumbed, stupefied," from torpere "be numb or stiff" (see torpor). Figurative sense of "sluggish, dull, apathetic" is from 1650s. Related: Torpidly; torpidness.

After a long sleep,he still felt torpid.

长睡一觉后他仍然觉得有气无力。

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He just walked and his mind drifted slowly like a torpid stream.

他只是埋头走,脑袋里思想都凝滞了,有如一汪流不动的溪水.

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Even when he was awake he was completely torpid.

他醒着的时候也完全麻木不动.

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Over it all hangs the torpid sullen breeze of May.

但是无论哪里都躲不过那欲吹无力的五月的风.

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And under the influence of that wintry piece of fact, she would become torpid again.

于是在凛冽如寒风一般的事实的影响之下, 她又回到蛰伏的状态之中.

辞典例句

Keep on idling like this, and you will surely become torpid.

如果你继续这样懒下去, 你的脑子一定会生锈的.

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To pass the winter in a dormant or torpid state.

在蛰伏的或昏睡的状态中过冬.

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The fervent heat merely communicated a genial warmth to their half - torpid systems.

炽热的温度对他们半麻痹的系统而言只能传达出一种亲切和温暖而已.

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The two ships becalmed on a torpid sea, I believed to be marine phantoms.

两艘轮船停泊在水波不兴的海面上, 我以为它们是海上的鬼怪.

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