Idle
['aɪd(ə)l] or ['aɪdl]
解釋/意思:
(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' .
編輯:韦斯利--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(superl.) Of no account; useless; vain; trifling; unprofitable; thoughtless; silly; barren.
(superl.) Not called into active service; not turned to appropriate use; unemployed; as, idle hours.
(superl.) Not employed; unoccupied with business; inactive; doing nothing; as, idle workmen.
(superl.) Given rest and ease; averse to labor or employment; lazy; slothful; as, an idle fellow.
(superl.) Light-headed; foolish.
(v. i.) To lose or spend time in inaction, or without being employed in business.
(v. t.) To spend in idleness; to waste; to consume; -- often followed by away; as, to idle away an hour a day.
整理:贾丝廷
同義詞及近義詞:
a. [1]. Unemployed, unoccupied, unbusied, inactive.[2]. Indolent, lazy, slothful, sluggish, inert.[3]. Vacant, unused.[4]. Useless, ineffectual, bootless, fruitless, unavailing, vain, futile, abortive.[5]. Trifling, trivial, unimportant, trashy, foolish, unprofitable.
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同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Void, unoccupied, waste, vain, empty, unemployed, useless, inactive, lazy,indolent
ANT:Tilled, occupied, populated, filled, employed, assiduous, industrious
埃琳娜整理
解釋/意思:
adj. vain: trifling: unemployed: averse to labour: not occupied: useless: unimportant: unedifying.—v.t. to spend in idleness.—v.i. to be idle or unoccupied.—adj. I′dle-head′ed foolish.—ns. I′dlehood I′dleness; I′dler; Id′lesse idleness; I′dle-wheel a wheel placed between two others simply for transferring the motion from one to the other without changing the direction.—n.pl. I′dle-worms once jocularly supposed to be bred in the fingers of lazy maid-servants.—adv. I′dly.
編輯:沃尔夫冈
娱乐性解釋/意思:
If you dream of being idle, you will fail to accomplish your designs. To see your friends in idleness, you will hear of some trouble affecting them. For a young woman to dream that she is leading an idle existence, she will fall into bad habits, and is likely to marry a shiftless man.
丹尼斯編輯
娱乐性解釋/意思:
Useless.
尤金校對
例句/造句/用法:
- You that should be models of industry are just as gossip-loving as the idle. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- 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? 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Vain, ignorant, idle, and absolutely uncontrolled! 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- When are you idle? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- 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. 雪麗.
- Who was the poet who said that Satan finds some mischief still for idle hands to do? 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Had there been presses, they would have had to stand idle while the papyrus rolls were slowly made. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- You cannot seriously wish me to stay idling at home all day? 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- He has been idling all this term, and he must look forward with dread to the examination. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- 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. 簡·愛.
- 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? 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- That is a very foolish trick, Fanny, to be idling away all the evening upon a sofa. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- It-can't-be, muttered Sydney Carton, retrospectively, and idling his glass (which fortunately was a small one) again. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- Strange that such a piece of idling should have seemed an important errand. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Today we have idled through a wonder of a garden attached to a ducal estate--but enough of description is enough, I judge. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- She had often idled over the instrument in this way, when I was staying at her mother's house. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- He knew that he idled and moped. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
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