Sloth

[sləʊθ] or [sloθ]

解釋/意思:

(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.

伊丽莎白編輯--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(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.

杰西編輯

同義詞及近義詞：

n. Inactivity, inaction, laziness, indolence, idleness, inertness, sluggishness, torpor, lumpishness, supineness, slothfulness.

艾达校對

解釋/意思:

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.

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