Sloth
[sləʊθ] or [sloθ]
解释:
(noun.) apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins).
(noun.) any of several slow-moving arboreal mammals of South America and Central America; they hang from branches back downward and feed on leaves and fruits.
(noun.) a disinclination to work or exert yourself.
伊丽莎白编辑--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) Slowness; tardiness.
(n.) Disinclination to action or labor; sluggishness; laziness; idleness.
(n.) Any one of several species of arboreal edentates constituting the family Bradypodidae, and the suborder Tardigrada. They have long exserted limbs and long prehensile claws. Both jaws are furnished with teeth (see Illust. of Edentata), and the ears and tail are rudimentary. They inhabit South and Central America and Mexico.
(v. i.) To be idle.
杰西编辑
同义词及近义词:
n. Inactivity, inaction, laziness, indolence, idleness, inertness, sluggishness, torpor, lumpishness, supineness, slothfulness.
艾达校对
解释:
n. laziness sluggishness: a sluggish arboreal animal of tropical America of two genera (Cholœpus the two-toed sloth and Bradypus the three-toed sloth).—adj. Sloth′ful given to sloth: inactive: lazy.—adv. Sloth′fully.—n. Sloth′fulness.
整理:纳撒尼尔
例句:
- That remains of all the laziness, sloth and failure. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- You hear it said that without the private ownership of capital people will lose ambition and sink into sloth. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- I have had unformed ideas of striving afresh, beginning anew, shaking off sloth and sensuality, and fighting out the abandoned fight. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- Then by the sloth of a bureaucratic fascist. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- When they reached South America, they found the giant sloth (the _Megatherium_), the glyptodon, and many other extinct creatures, still flourishing. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- When men reached the southern extremity of America, the _Megatherium_, the giant sloth, and the _Glyptodon_, the giant armadillo, were still living. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- They have settled happily into the sloth and bureaucracy of governing. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- Fate would not so be pacified; nor would Providence sanction this shrinking sloth and cowardly indolence. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- Dalton, likewise, in Pander and Dalton's work on Fossil Sloths, expressed, in 1821, a similar belief. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
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