idle

常见例句

用作动词 (v.)

用作不及物动词: S+～(+A)

• They idled before cafes.
  他们在餐馆前闲逛。
• The car idled in the driveway.
  这辆车在行车道上停着。
• The windmill idled in the breeze.
  风车在微风中慢慢地转动。

用作及物动词: S+～+ n./pron.

• The strike idled the workers for days.
  罢工使工人们好多天无事可做。

用作形容词 (adj.)

用作定语: ～+ n.

• We spent many idle hours during the holidays.
  在假期中我们度过了很多空闲的时间。
• They didn't want to live idle lives.
  他们不愿过闲散的生活。
• How much trouble in this life is caused by idle talk!
  这一生中,无聊的闲话引起多少烦恼啊!
• I don't know why I asked—just idle curiosity.
  我不知道我为什么问这问题——只是出于无意义的好奇心吧。
• An idle person will never find or understand real happiness.
  一个懒汉永远找不到也永远不懂得真正的幸福。
• An idle worker is a waste of money.
  工人懒散就是浪费金钱。
• Every evening on my way home I see that idle fellow.
  每天晚上在回家的路上我都能见到那个游手好闲的家伙。

用作表语: S+be+～

• When men can't find employment, they are idle.
  当人们找不到工作时,他们便空闲着。
• Men are idle when machines break down.
  机器坏了时,人们都没事做。

S+be+～+to- v

• He is too idle to do anything.
  他太懒了,不干任何事。

It is/was+～+to- v

• It's idle to expect help from that man.
  指望那人帮助是没用的。
• It would be idle to argue further.
  再辩论下去也不会有什么效果。
• I knew what would happen, but it was idle to warn them;they wouldn't listen.
  我知道将要发生什么事，但是警告他们也没用，他们不听。

用作宾语补足语: S+V+O+～

• The factory closed and left hundreds of employees idle.
  工厂关闭使数百名雇员无事可做。
• The fuel shortage has left many airplanes idle.
  燃料的短缺使很多飞机停飞。

更多例句

• Brian kept up the idle chatter for another five minutes.
  布赖恩又絮絮地唠叨了5分钟。
• It was more of an idle threat than anything.
  那其实是唬人的话。
• It would be idle to pretend the system is perfect.
  假装系统完美无疵是徒劳的。
• His statement isn't merely an idle boast.
  他的话不仅仅是虚张声势的自夸。
• Brian kept up the idle chatter for another five minutes.
  布赖恩又絮絮地唠叨了5分钟。
• It would be idle to pretend the system is perfect.
  假装系统完美无疵是徒劳的。
• In contrast to similar services in France and Germany, Intercity rolling stock is very rarely idle.
  与法国和德国的类似铁路服务系统不同，“城际列车”很少闲置。
• Mike doesn't study at all. Instead, he sits idle all day.
  迈克根本不肯读书, 相反地, 他终日游手好闲.
• Their friendship was turned to enmity through idle gossip.
  无聊的闲言碎语使他们反目成仇.
• I don't know why I asked — just idle curiosity.
  我不知道我为什么问这问题——只是出于无意义的好奇心吧.
• A young man idle , an old man needy.
  少时闲混, 老来穷困.
• He indulged in idle fancy.
  他沉溺于幻想之中.
• She blamed the crimes on the local jobless teenagers.'The devil makes work for idle hands,'she would say.
  她把这些犯罪归咎于当地无业青少年. 她总是说, “ 游手好闲者,惹是生非人”.
• Don't idle away your time.
  不要浪费时间.
• An idle person will never find or understand real happiness.
  一个懒汉永远找不到也永远不懂得真正的幸福.
• They idle away the hours watching TV.
  他们看电视以虚度时光.
• She found knitting a comfortable employment in her idle hours.
  她发现编织毛衣是悠闲时间消遣的好方式.
• How much trouble in this life is caused by idle talk!
  生活中有多少麻烦不都是由清谈引起的么.
• How can one sit idle and enjoy the fruits of others'labour?
  怎能坐享其成?
• Do not idle about like this and do something useful.
  别再这样闲混下去了,做些有益的事吧!
• These unenterprising people have money lying idle in a bank.
  这些没有进取精神的人把钱都闲置在银行里.
• When you are used to physical labour, you feel uncomfortable if you're idle.
  劳动惯了, 闲着就不舒服.
• How can you do your business if you just idle and do no decent work?
  你成天游手好闲,不务正业,还能做好自己的本职工作?
• He is conscientious and diligent , and is never idle.
  他是个勤谨人, 整天闲不住.
• I can not suffer you to be idle.
  我不能让你偷懒.
• All of us are busy over our work and nobody is idle.
  我们现在都正忙着,一个闲人也没有.
• Don't let the machine stand idle!
  别让机器闲着!
• The teacher flayed the idle students.
  老师严责那些懒惰的学生.
• Those making the idle talk are all old fogies.
  说闲话的人都是些老脑筋.
• Don't idle away your precious time.
  别闲磨大好时光!
• Don't let state funds lie idle.
  不要积压国家资金.
• At first, this discussion of incentives and seat belts might seem like idle speculation.
  乍一看, 这种关于激励与安全带的讨论似乎是毫无根据的猜测.
• He idled the time away in dreamy thought.
  他在虚幻的空想中虚度了光阴。
• They idle away the hours watching TV.
  他们看电视以虚度时光.
• Even then he was never idle.
  就在那时,他也没虚度年华.
• Instead of working, Jack was idling away his time.
  杰克不去工作, 虚度着光阴.
• I don't want to idle away and waste my time.
  我不想虚度和浪费时间.
• Nobody should idle away his precious time.
  人人都不应该虚度宝贵的时光.
• He often idles away many hours.
  他常常虚度好几个小时.
• It'seemed that the boy liked to idle away his time.
  看起来这个男孩喜欢虚度时光.
• He did not idle away his entire vacation.
  他没有虚度整个假期.
• To oblige idling artists we populate public squares with famous men.
  为满足虚度光阴的艺术家我们把名人雕像聚集公共广场.
• We should not idle away our time, and drift in frivolous thoughts.
  人生在世,不能无所事事, 蒙懵懂懂而虚度一生.
• If you idle away, you will be sorry at the exam.
  如果你虚度光阴, 考试时你会后悔的.
• If we had been allowed to sit idle, we should all have fallen in she blues.
  假使当初让我们虚度光阴的话; 我们都会感到伤心的.
• He idles away his time watching television.
  他看电视虚度光阴.
• He who idles away the time is nothing but a living death.
  虚度年华者,虽生犹死.
• We idled away half an hour at the supermarket.
  我们在超市虚度了半个小时.
• Dont idle away your time; do some reading or something.
  别虚度光阴, 还是读点书或做点别的什么事儿.
• If idles away his time, youth will fade away and life will run out on him.
  谁虚度年华, 青春就要褪色,生命就会抛弃他.
• He has really idled away 40 years.
  他这个人真是虚度了四十个春秋.
• On many idle day have I grieved over lost time.
  在许多闲散的日子里,我伤心那些虚度的时光.
• His father found him idling about.
  父亲发现他虚度时光.
• When I am idling away my time, I can see that it hurts him deeply.
  每当我无所事事、虚度时光时, 我能看出我这样浪费时间深深地刺痛了他的心.
• Instead of working, Jack idling away his time.
  杰克不去工作, 虚度着“光阴”.
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