idleness
n. 懶惰; 閒散; 無益,無效; 失業
If people who were working are idle, they have no jobs or work.
Employees have been idle almost a month because of shortages.
由於原料短缺,員工們已將近一個月無事可做。
If machines or factories are idle, they are not working or being used.
Now the machine is lying idle.
如今機器閒置著。
...factories that had been idle for years.
已經閒置多年的工廠
If you say that someone is idle, you disapprove of them because they are not doing anything and you think they should be.
...idle bureaucrats who spent the day reading newspapers...
無所事事、整天看報紙的官僚們
I never met such an idle bunch of workers in all my life!
我一輩子都沒碰到過像他們這樣吃白飯的工人!
Idle is used to describe something that you do for no particular reason, often because you have nothing better to do.
Brian kept up the idle chatter for another five minutes.
布賴恩又絮絮地嘮叨了5分鐘。
...idle curiosity.
無聊的好奇心
If you say that it is idle to do something, you mean that it is not worth doing it, because it will not achieve anything.
It would be idle to pretend the system is perfect.
假裝系統完美無疵是徒勞的。
You refer to an idle threat or boast when you do not think the person making it will or can do what they say.
It was more of an idle threat than anything...
那其實是唬人的話。
His statement isn't merely an idle boast.
他的話不僅僅是虛張聲勢的自誇。
If you idle, you spend time in a lazy way, doing nothing in particular.
When they reached his house, Scobie idled a bit, finishing his cigarette...
他們到他家後,斯科比閒逛了一會兒,抽完了他的香菸。
We spent many hours idling in one of the cafes that line three sides of the tiny piazza...
露天小市場的三面都有小餐館,我們在其中一家餐館閒呆了很長時間。
To idle a factory or other place of work means to close it down because there is no work to do or because the workers are on strike.
...idled assembly plants.
停業的裝配廠
To idle workers means to stop them working.
The strike has idled about 55,000 machinists.
罷工使約 55,000 名機械師無事可做。
If an engine or vehicle is idling, the engine is running slowly and quietly because it is not in gear, and the vehicle is not moving.
Beyond a stand of trees a small plane idled...
在樹林的那一邊,一架小飛機停在那裡,發動機在空轉。
Her Daimler limo waits with its engine idling.
她的戴姆勒豪華轎車原地待命,發動機在空轉。
1. having no employment
2. the trait of being idle out of a reluctance to work
Idleness is a very bad thing for human nature.
懶散是人性中很糟糕的一面。
Braccio was a hater of idleness.
布拉喬痛恨遊手好閒。
The closure of the large factory made many workers live in idleness.
那家大工廠的關閉使許多工人失業.
Idleness enervates the will to succeed.
懶惰削弱了成功的決心.
Business may be troublesome, but idleness is pernicious.
事業雖擾人, 怠惰害更大.