Idleness

(noun.) having no employment.

乔校对

• Application and industry have been familiar to the one; idleness and dissipation to the other. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Mostly they come for skill--or idleness. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• I should rush into idleness, and stagnate there with all my might. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Having given up the interior of my head to idleness, it is as well that the exterior should work in this way. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• The greater part of it will naturally be destined for the employment of industry, and not for the maintenance of idleness. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• How could I say to this generous being, Maintain me in idleness. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• A hatred of idleness, Mr. Zimmerman, is a love of industry; but how is this love and this hatred to be acquired? 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• At least, if I could--but I shall come to all that by and by, and it is mere idleness to go on about it now. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Soon tiring of idleness and isolation he sent a cry from Macedonia to his old friend Milt Adams, who was in Boston, and whom he wished to rejoin if he could get work promptly in the East. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Whoever is not in trade is accused of eating the bread of idleness, of passing a useless existence. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• That is the work of the lower orders, who live merely that the First Born may enjoy long lives of luxury and idleness. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• I have taught them to love work and loathe idleness. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• She did most heartily grieve over the idleness of her childhoodand sat down and practised vigorously an hour and a half. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• It checked the idleness of one, and the business of the other. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• He acquired a habit of idleness on the expedition, but begins, of late, to apply himself to business, and, I hope, will become an industrious man. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.

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