idling

1 About a hundred feet from the store he turned the tractor halfway around and stopped it, leaving the engine idling.

2 At the Lahore Gate bus station, near Pol Mahmood Khan in East Kabul, a row of buses sat idling along the curbside.

3 When the 46th Guards were quietly idling their engines, maybe the cowering soldiers below imagined that the swooping wings sounded eerily like witch’s broomsticks soaring through the dark sky.

4 The car engine is idling.

汽车引擎在空转.

5 As well as pruning workforces, many manufacturing, metals and mining companies are idling some factories and mothballing others.

除了裁员，很多制造公司、金属公司以及矿业公司还暂时停止了一些工厂的运转并且关闭了部分工厂。

6 Initially, when the level crossing had just closed, the air was full of the impatient sound of idling engines.

7 The buses are still at the curb, idling their engines.

8 As chill as you can be with a line of news trucks idling in front of your school, antennas stabbing the sky.

9 Sometimes the brain is idling, sometimes it's roaring down the neural highway.

有时，我们的大脑空转着，有时，大脑发出的信号顺着神经元高速路呼啸而过。

10 At eighty miles per hour, the engine was only idling.

11 After listening to her story, the policeman whistled to a Yellow Cab idling at the curb.

12 All I said was if he didn't get out and start selling a few cars instead of idling around all day, he might find himself looking for a new job.

我只是说，要是他不出去卖几辆车，而成天无所事事的话，他可能就要去找一份新工作了。

13 For a few seconds he sat where he was, the engine idling.

14 I caught up with him fairly quickly, as he was just idling along, looking at the trees.

15 You'd better stop idling about and do something uselful.

你最好不要闲待着,去做些有益的事.

16 He was idling in front of the hospital.

17 Thus he was a thorn in the household and he hung about everywhere, talking and idling and yawning, and half dressed even at noon.

18 Little Mexican kids darted in and out of all the cars stuck idling in traffic, selling packs of gum and cigarettes and shaved ice and batteries.

19 A group of boys idled in the doorway.

20 The Man in the White Shirt picked up his pace as he saw the buses lined up in the commuter lot, engines idling at a low rumble.

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