| 单词 | sloth |
| 释义 | sloth (once / 1883 pages) n If you lounge around in your bathrobe watching TV and ordering out for pizza, you'll get called a sloth. A sloth is actually a slow-moving, tree-dwelling mammal, but it has become a synonym for "lazybones." Slug also doubles as the name of an animal and a term for someone who is lazy, slow or lethargic. But with slug, the animal name probably morphed into the human application, whereas sloth has meant "lazy person" or "laziness" for a long time. In the Catholic Church sloth was categorized as one of the seven deadly sins. WORD FAMILYsloth: slothful, sloths+/slothful: slothfully, slothfulness USAGE EXAMPLESSunday; anoa, pigs, sloth bears, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Seattle Times(Dec 15, 2016) Sunday; wolves, meerkats, wallaroos, sloth bears, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Seattle Times(Dec 08, 2016) This is all true but in the Calvinist-Puritan work ethic of America, naps, vacations, and breaks signify moral sloth and brands you as a slacker. New York Times(Feb 09, 2013) 1n a disinclination to work or exert yourself Syn|Hyper slothfulness disinclination, hesitancy, hesitation, indisposition, reluctance a certain degree of unwillingness 2n apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins) Syn|Hyper acedia, laziness deadly sin, mortal sin an unpardonable sin entailing a total loss of grace 3n any of several slow-moving arboreal mammals of South America and Central America; they hang from branches back downward and feed on leaves and fruits Syn|Hypo|Hyper tree sloth Bradypus tridactylus, ai, three-toed sloth a sloth that has three long claws on each forefoot and each hindfoot Choloepus didactylus, two-toed sloth, unai, unaurelatively small fast-moving sloth with two long claws on each front foot Choloepus hoffmanni, two-toed sloth, unai, unaua sloth of Central America that has two long claws on each forefoot and three long claws on each hindfoot edentate primitive terrestrial mammal with few if any teeth; of tropical Central America and South America |
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