打卡ket：KET詞匯精講:idle 形容詞含義精學

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劍橋學習者語料庫根據(jù)來自世界各地的學習者使用語言的證據(jù)，收集了4400多萬個英語單詞，英語詞匯量表也隨之發(fā)展起來。英語詞匯表顯示了英語學習者在英式或美式英語中需要知道的最常見的單詞和句子。在CEFR在單詞表中，每個單詞或短語的含義已經(jīng)分配到A1和B2之間的等級。下面環(huán)美亞劍橋英語小編仔細說說：

KET詞匯精解：idle

修飾詞意義精學

1.無事可做；If people who were working are idle, they have no jobs or work.

【經(jīng)典例句】

Employees have been idle almost a month because of shortages.

由于原材料短缺，員工們已經(jīng)近一個月無事可做。

2.(機器、工廠等)閑置；Ifmachines or factories are idle, they are not working or being used.

KET備考

【經(jīng)典例句】

Now the machineis lying idle.現(xiàn)在機器閑置。

factories that had been idle for years.工廠閑置多年

3.懶惰；懶惰；無所事事；Ifyou say that someone is idle, you disapprove of them because they are not doing anything and you think they should be.

【經(jīng)典例句】

idle bureaucrats who spent the day reading newspapers.

整天無所事事、看報紙的官僚們

I never met such an idle bunch of workers in all my life!

我從來沒有見過像他們這樣吃白飯的工人！

4.瑣碎無聊；Idle is used to describe something that you do for no particular reason, often because you have nothing better to do.

【經(jīng)典例句】

Brian kept up the idle chatter for another five minutes.

布賴恩又嘮叨了五分鐘。

5.徒勞；徒勞；無用的；Ifyou say that it is idle to do something, you mean that it is not worth doingit, because it will not achieve anything.

【經(jīng)典例句】

It would beidle to pretend the system is perfect.

假裝系統(tǒng)完美無瑕是徒勞的。

動詞含義精學

1.混時間；閑散；to spend time doing nothing important

及物動詞用法：

They idled the days away, talking and watching television.

他們每天都在聊天和看電視。

不及物用詞用法：

They idled along by the river (= walked slowly and with no particular purpose).

它們沿河漫步。

2.混時間；閑散；無所事事：to spend time doing nothing important

【經(jīng)典例句】

They idled the days away, talking and watching television.

他們每天都在聊天和看電視。

知識點擴展

詞匯分析

idle:一般指很閑，無事可做，一般不含責怪之意。

lazy:指懶惰、懶惰、不愿意學習或工作等，往往包含著應該受到指責的意義。