1.懈怠的；懒惰的not working hard
an idle student懒散的学生
2.闲置的not in use
to lie/stand/remain idle闲置着
3.没有工作的；闲散的without work
Over ten per cent of the workforce is now idle.现在有超过百分之十的劳动力闲置。
4.[ubn]漫无目的的；无效的；无用的with no particular purpose or effect; useless
idle chatter/curiosity无聊的唠叨╱好奇
It was just an idle threat(= not serious) .那只不过是吓唬吓唬而已。
It is idle to pretend that their marriage is a success.佯装他们的婚姻有多美满是无意义的。
5.[ubn]空闲的not spent doing work or sth particular
In idle moments, he carved wooden figures.他空闲时就刻木雕。
1.[t][i]混时间；闲荡；无所事事to spend time doing nothing important
They idled the days away, talking and watching television.他们天天在闲聊和看电视中消磨时光。
They idled along by the river(= walked slowly and with no particular purpose) .他们沿着河边闲逛。
2.[i]空转；挂空挡；未熄火to run slowly while the vehicle is not moving
She left the car idling at the roadside.她把汽车挂空挡停在路边。
3.[t]~ sb/sth（尤指暂时地）关闭工厂，使（工人）闲着to close a factory, etc. or stop providing work for the workers, especially temporarily
The strikes have idled nearly 4 000 workers.罢工使近 4 000 名工人闲着没事干。
It was because he had made a serious affair of an idle matter, by thinking of it as if it were of any consequence.
这是由于他把一桩不关紧要的小事看得太严重，以为会产生很大影响的缘故。
The sovereign, he said, was an "unfailing rock" who would not be deterred by the "idle chatter" of critics.
国家，君主说，是一块“永恒基石”，它不会为“夸夸其谈”的批评者们吓倒。
A day seems shot when it is full of enjoyable things but it seems like an eternity if one is idle or stuck with a boring job.
当一个人面对的是充满趣味的事情时，时间会过得很快，然而，如果一个人无所事事或从事的是无聊乏味的工作时会觉得度日如年。
Pallet loading systems represent another means of cutting down on machine idle time due to setup operations.
托盘装载系统是另一种减少因装载操作致使机床闲置的手段。
Likewise, finalizers are normally processed as a background task, so their cost is usually amortized across the system's idle time.
同样，终结通常是后台任务，所以它们常常在系统的空闲时间执行。
If there are many idle agents and all of them retain their private memory, it is possible that the system runs out of memory.
如果有很多的闲置代理，并且所有这些闲置代理都保留了它们的私有内存，那么就可能导致系统耗尽内存。
It plays tag with the wind. September is a changeling busy as a squirrel in a hickory tree, idle as a languid brook.
九月是善变的，它时而像一只松鼠在胡桃树上忙碌，时而像慵懒的妇人般虚度光阴。
To live cooped up in a small flat with some one who was out of work, idle, and indifferent to her.
就这样被关鸽子笼一般的小房子里，和一个没有工作、无所事事而且对她漠不关心的人生活在一起？
Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation on how it shall be spent. --Samuel Johnson.
人生不长，切不可花费太多的时间去考虑应该怎样度过这一辈子。--塞缪尔·约翰逊。
Long, quiet days she spent, not lonely nor idle, for her little world was peopled with imaginary friends, and she was by nature a busy bee.
她静悄悄地度过漫漫长日，从不孤独，从不懒散，因为她的小天地不乏虚构出来的朋友，而她天生就是个勤劳的小蜜蜂。
Our comrade pointed out how the land was one of the means by which the labour of the workers was exploited by an idle class.
土地是一些有闲阶级剥削劳动者工作的一种手段之一。有同志对其过程作了解释。
No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken.
无论一个人观察能力有多强，从认知到行动这一步总是难以跨越。
But we have seen years when the land has not been used to feed people and lies idle, " he said. "
但是我们看到，这片土地多年来已经没有用来喂养人们，它们被搁置不用。
They idle away all day and try to entertain themselves to ease up the stress and unpleasantness.
他们整日无所事事，试图以娱乐的方式来减轻自己的压力和不愉快。
The 20th century experience with both "left" and "right" totalitarianism shows that this was no idle warning.
20世纪同时经历了“左”、“右”两种极权主义，说明这一警告不是无稽之谈。
He also said, "Determine never to be idle. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing. "
他还说，决定绝不空闲。如果我们总是做事，有多少事能被做是奇妙的。
Eextremecclyfirst has wonderful potential power , moreover, it's easy to be covered by habit , dimmed by time or idle apart in inertia.
每个人都有潜在的能量，只是很容易被习惯所掩盖，被具体时间所迷离，被惰性所消磨！
"Life is not long, " Samuel Johnson said, "and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent. "
“生命并不长，”SamuelJohnson说道，“切不可花费太多时间思考它应该如何度过。”
Being idle, go angling at a green stream; All at once, I dream in a boat to the side of the sun.
闲来垂钓碧溪上，忽复乘舟梦日边。
The headmaster failed to strike the right note in his speech on diligence and the lazy pupils continued to idle away their time.
小学校长关于勤奋的讲话没有取得所需要的效果，那些懒惰的学生照样把他们的时间浪费掉。
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