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Idle

英式发音:['ad()l] or ['adl]美式发音

    (noun.) the state of an engine or other mechanism that is idling; 'the car engine was running at idle'.

    (verb.) run disconnected or idle; 'the engine is idling'.

    (verb.) be idle; exist in a changeless situation; 'The old man sat and stagnated on his porch'; 'He slugged in bed all morning'.

    (adj.) not in active use; 'the machinery sat idle during the strike'; 'idle hands' .

    (adj.) not in action or at work; 'an idle laborer'; 'idle drifters'; 'the idle rich'; 'an idle mind' .

    (adj.) not having a job; 'idle carpenters'; 'jobless transients'; 'many people in the area were out of work' .

    (adj.) lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility; 'idle talk'; 'a loose tongue' .

    (adj.) silly or trivial; 'idle pleasure'; 'light banter'; 'light idle chatter' .

    编辑:韦斯利


Idle

双语例句


  • You that should be models of industry are just as gossip-loving as the idle. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
  • But now, at hunting and hawking, and each idle sport of wood and river, who so prompt as the Templars in all these fond vanities? 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
  • Vain, ignorant, idle, and absolutely uncontrolled! 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
  • When are you idle? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
  • I am at present responsible for his life; it shall not be forfeited for half an hour's idle gossip. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
  • Who was the poet who said that Satan finds some mischief still for idle hands to do? 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
  • Had there been presses, they would have had to stand idle while the papyrus rolls were slowly made. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
  • You cannot seriously wish me to stay idling at home all day? 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
  • He has been idling all this term, and he must look forward with dread to the examination. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
  • Neglect it--go on as heretofore, craving, whining, and idling--and suffer the results of your idiocy, however bad and insuperable they may be. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
  • Don't your horses want feeding, or your reddlebags want mending, or don't you want to find buyers for your goods, that you stay idling here like this? 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
  • That is a very foolish trick, Fanny, to be idling away all the evening upon a sofa. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
  • It-can't-be, muttered Sydney Carton, retrospectively, and idling his glass (which fortunately was a small one) again. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
  • Strange that such a piece of idling should have seemed an important errand. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
  • Today we have idled through a wonder of a garden attached to a ducal estate--but enough of description is enough, I judge. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
  • She had often idled over the instrument in this way, when I was staying at her mother's house. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
  • He knew that he idled and moped. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.

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