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单词 indolent
释义
indolentin‧do‧lent /ˈɪndələnt/ adjective formal Word Origin
WORD ORIGINindolent
Origin:
1600-1700 Late Latin indolens ‘not feeling pain’, from Latin dolere ‘to feel pain’
Thesaurus
THESAURUS
not liking work or physical activity, or not making any effort to do anything: · a lazy student· You make your own breakfast! Don't be so lazy!
lazy and not doing enough work. Idle sounds rather formal and is becoming old-fashioned. In everyday English, people usually use lazy: · The beggars were too idle to look for work.· Her son was bone idle (=extremely lazy).
formal lazy and living a comfortable life: · He spent an indolent first year at Oxford.· the indolent son of a wealthy landowner
lazy and having no ambition to succeed or do anything useful with your life: · her shiftless husband
British English lazy and trying to avoid any work: · He was work-shy, and no one could remember when he’d last held a job.
formal lazy and not liking physical activity: · Her advice to slothful Americans is: ‘Get out there and walk!’
lazyindolence noun [uncountable]
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