The extra power stations are idle when demand is lower. 需求下降时,多余的电厂便闲置下来。
Valuable machinery is left to lie idle for long periods. 昂贵的机器长期处于闲置状态。
Many men were made idle as the mills closed down. 很多人因为工厂倒闭而无事可做。
Get upstairs and wake up that idle brother of yours. 上楼去叫醒你那懒惰的哥哥。
You're just bone idle, the lot of you. 你们就是懒骨头,你们这些家伙。
Don't worry. I have not been idle while you were away. 别担心,你不在的时候我也没闲着。
It was only from idle curiosity that she opened the book. 只是出于单纯的好奇她翻开了那本书。
idle chatter/gossip 无聊的闲扯/闲话
It didn't sound like an idle threat to me (=it was a real threat). 听上去这不像是随便吓唬吓唬我。
present tense | |
I/you/we/they | idle |
he/she/it | idles |
present participle | idling |
past tense | idled |
past participle | idled |
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