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    idle查询结果如下:

    音标:['aɪdl]
    基本释义/说明:①闲,闲散;
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    a.
    ①闲,闲散;
    an idle loafer
    无业游民.
    the idle rich
    有闲阶级.
    When men cannot find employment, they are idle.
    人们找不到工作时就赋闲.
    ②闲暇的;闲置的,空着的;【机】空转的;
    the idle hours
    暇时.
    None of our machines lie (run) idle.
    我们的机器没有一台是搁置不用(空转)的.
    ③懒惰(通常用 lazy);
    an idle worthless boy
    一个懒惰的、没有出息的孩子.
    ④无用的;无效的;无根据的;
    Don`t listen to idle tales.
    别听那些无稽之谈.
    It`s idle to expect him to help us.
    指望他帮助我们是没有用的.
    vi.
    ①怠惰;游手好闲;
    Don`t idle about.
    别游手好闲.
    ②【机】空转;慢转;
    The windmill idled in the breeze.
    风车在微风中慢慢转动.
    vt.
    ①空费,虚度;
    ②【机】使…空转;使…慢转;
    idle a motor
    使马达慢慢转动.
    -扩展释义
    【海运】
    (使)空转,(使)空载,停用的(机械设备),未作功的,空载的,无效的,空转的,懒惰的空转,空载,停用(装卸)待时
    adj. 【法律专业】
    无根据 ,无意义
    adj. 【化学】
    空闲的,懒惰的,无功的;懒惰,虚度,空转,开慢车,低速轧制,空闲的
    Don’t idle away your time.
    不要虚度年华。
    n. 【机械】
    空转的,无用的
    N/A
    a.1. 不工作的;闲置的;空闲的,2. 懒惰的;无所事事的,3. 无根据的;无理由的,4. 无目的的;无益的;无聊的,5. 空转的;空载的,vi.1. 无所事事;闲混;闲逛,2. (机器)空转,vt.1. 虚度(光阴)[(+away)]2. 使空闲;使空转
    -同义词和反义词

    词性:adjective

    例句4. they filled their idle hours with endless gossiping sessions’

    反义词系列1
    -idle的不同词性形态

    名词 变体/同根词

    (Somerset, obsolete) An idle man.
    (Now chiefly dialectal) Idleness; vanity.
    idlehood
    同义词: idleness
    The state or condition of being idle; a habit of idling; idleness.
    The state of being idle; inactivity. || The state of being indolent; indolence. || Groundlessness; worthlessness; triviality.
    “It seems to be tied up with a rather Victorian work ethic where poor people are demonised for idleness and deserve their fate.”
    “My own work has proceeded in fits and starts throughout the holiday, with long intervals of idleness in between.”
    “It’s been a day for idleness, for loafing about, for lounging, dozing, snacking and dozing some more.”
    One who idles; one who spends his or her time in inaction. || One who idles; a lazy person; a sluggard. || (nautical, dated) Any member of a ship’s crew who is not required to keep the night-watch || A mechanical device such as a pulley or wheel that does not transmit power, but supports a moving belt etc.

    动词 变体/同根词

    idle的(已不通用)第三人称单数形式
    idle的第三人称单数形式
    “Passengers disembark as the train idles, stepping into air scented by Douglas fir and lodgepole pine.”
    “No one dawdles or idles there, yet they just manage to cope with the job.”
    “She’s so relaxed in behind but idles as soon as she hits the front.”
    idle的过去式和过去分词
    “A world record holding hydroplane which for more than a decade has idled on terra firma in a South Lakeland museum is to take to the water again.”
    “In the shade of a sycamore grove, bikers sat cross-legged on idled Harleys, heckling the gapers and high-fiving each other.”
    “Meanwhile, 200 ships up and down the West Coast, 10,000 longshoremen and about one million containers remain idled by this dispute.”
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