idleness

1 Pandemic idleness has played a role, too, in the rise of TikTok-inspired shopping.

2 She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.

他观察家务，并不吃闲饭。

3 It wasn’t just that he was out of shape from the long idleness on the ship, and almost pudgy from gorging on board and in the village.

4 In other words, there's an ethics to idleness.

5 He can't bear idleness.

闲着不干事他可受不了.

6 In the North, the system of “hard labor” was replaced by a system of “hard time,” that numbing, brutalizing idleness where masses of people extruded from the mainstream economy are pooled into mass penal colonies. 

7 Idleness enervates the will to succeed.

懒惰削弱了成功的决心.

8 In 2024, labs across the U.S. now have PCR machines sitting idle, waiting to be turned back on.

9 We became suspended in some stately never-never land of pleasure, luxury and idleness.

我们流连忘返大气、奢华、惬意、闲适的世外桃源。

10 He hath been sold at eight from his mother's side, and now must daily watch another boy enjoy coddling, plaudits, and idleness.

11 You’re in my generation-ish, I assume, and didn’t grow up with the hours-of-gaming option, so you learned firsthand there are two general paths kids can go on when presented with complete idleness: creativity or mayhem.

12 The cars idled in traffic.

13 The idleness is killing me but I can't quit as I need the salary.

这种闲散让我受不了，但我不能辞职，因为我需要这份薪水。

14 Very few of us know what to do with idleness.

很少人知道要怎么才能做到无所事事。

15 Busyness has increased for some, while others, for whom slowing down is a foreign concept, have had idleness forced on them.

16 Like Virginia Woolf said, "My mind works in idleness."

17 So popular have the street workout routines of Elyse Blemmings become in these times of enforced idleness that some of the neighbours are also meeting new friends amongst all the bending and stretching.

18 It began as sheer whimsy: a project for a redundant travel writer to pursue in moments of idleness, and an alternative to doom-scrolling through the news.

19 As Mr. Gitney and Bono descended, I could see in the lineaments of their faces that the ride of hours had not been passed in idleness, but rather marked by contest of will.

20 But during the first and -- so far -- only civil war this country has seen, an invasion of Washington was no idle matter.

1 懒惰

lazy idle inactive recumbent indolent do-nothing sluggard slugabed faineant idly lazily supinely slouchingly inertia inactivity laziness inaction indolence acedia slovenry slack sluggish supine slothful shiftless otiose donothing sloth lurdan spare sluggardly dolittle Oblomovism sit on behind

2 失业

unemployed jobless disemployed play unemployment

3 闲散

idle

4 无效

diriment empty void useless idle invalid frustrate null nude ineffective barren inert inconclusive unprofitable ineffectual voided unfruitful unavailing nugatory otiose avoidance inefficiency impotence sterility nullification invalidation nullity inconclusiveness nihility avoid negative blank mock negate invalidate nullify quash paralyse

5 无益

good-for-nought unnecessary void useless idle frustrate null vain sterile barren futile unhelpful fruitless unprofitable feckless purposeless unavailing footless good-for-nothing profitless bootless inutile resultless vainly futility inutility vainness

6 无所事事

unoccupied vacuous faineant loaferish idly vacuousness flanerie twiddle with thumbs twiddle thumbs at grass idle vacant about vacancy ennui potchger play fester loll eat head off fake off

7 闲逛

rambling spine-bashing range lounge promenade ramble wandering saunter bludge potchger tool bomb bat wander troll loaf maroon meander mike loiter mooch gallivant maunder trog on the gad rat around

8 懒散

slack inactive supine lackadaisical slothful slovenly sloth torpor slackness slovenliness slothfulness moon laze vegetate laze about laze around

9 游手好闲

fainéant idle flanerie drone fool bum dawdle loaf trifle with laze away