Idleness
['aɪdlnəs] or ['aɪdlnɪs]
解釋/意思:
(n.) The condition or quality of being idle (in the various senses of that word); uselessness; fruitlessness; triviality; inactivity; laziness.
錄入:斯蒂芬妮
娱乐性解釋/意思：
n. A model farm where the devil experiments with seeds of new sins and promotes the growth of staple vices.
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例句/造句/用法:
- Application and industry have been familiar to the one; idleness and dissipation to the other. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Mostly they come for skill--or idleness. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- I should rush into idleness, and stagnate there with all my might. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Having given up the interior of my head to idleness, it is as well that the exterior should work in this way. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- The greater part of it will naturally be destined for the employment of industry, and not for the maintenance of idleness. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- How could I say to this generous being, Maintain me in idleness. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- A hatred of idleness, Mr. Zimmerman, is a love of industry; but how is this love and this hatred to be acquired? 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- 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. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- 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. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Whoever is not in trade is accused of eating the bread of idleness, of passing a useless existence. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- That is the work of the lower orders, who live merely that the First Born may enjoy long lives of luxury and idleness. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- I have taught them to love work and loathe idleness. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- She did most heartily grieve over the idleness of her childhoodand sat down and practised vigorously an hour and a half. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- It checked the idleness of one, and the business of the other. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- 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. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
編輯:朱利叶斯