1.ADJ If people who were working are idle, they have no jobs or work. 无事可做的
例:4,000 workers have been idle for 12 of the first 27 weeks of this year.
4千名工人在今年最初的27个星期中有12个星期无事可干。
2.ADJ If machines or factories are idle, they are not working or being used. 闲置的
例:Now the machine is lying idle.
现在这台机器正处于闲置状态。
3.ADJ If you say that someone is idle, you disapprove of them because they are not doing anything and you think they should be. 无所事事的
例:...idle bureaucrats who spent the day reading newspapers.
整天看报纸,无所事事的官僚们。
4.idly ADV 无所事事地
例:We were not idly sitting around.
我们并非坐着没事干。
5.ADJ Idle is used to describe something that you do for no particular reason, often because you have nothing better to do. 无聊的
例:Brian kept up the idle chatter for another five minutes.
布赖恩又无聊地闲扯了5分钟。
6.idly ADV 无聊地
例:We talked idly about magazines and baseball.
我们闲聊着杂志和棒球。
7.ADJ You refer to an idle threat or boast when you do not think the person making it will or can do what they say. 虚张声势的
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