indolence
indolence 英 ['ɪndələns] 美 [ˈɪndələns]
n. 懒散，懒惰；无痛
名词复数:indolences
- If your boss catches you sleeping with your head on your desk, she's likely to comment on your indolence. Indolence is another word for laziness.
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- n. 懒散，懒惰；无痛
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1. I have seen this happen. Just last week my minor crimes of indolence cost two companies about eighty man-hours.
我见过这样的事，就在上周，我的懒惰导致两家公司多花费了八十工时。
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2. As the Cultural relics department warned, the security technology employed in the museum was seamless, so the major fault lay in the security guards’ irresponsibility and indolence.
正如文物部门警告，目前博物馆安保技术已无懈可击，但最大的漏洞在于人员的意识和责任心，懒惰成性。
- indolence (n.) c. 1600, "indifference to pain," from French indolence (16c.) or directly from Late Latin indolentia "freedom from pain, insensibility," abstract noun from Latin indolentem (nominative indolens) "insensitive to pain," from in- "not, opposite of, without" (see in- (1)) + dolentem (nominative dolens) "grieving," present participle of dolere "suffer pain, grieve" (see doleful). Originally of prisoners under torture, etc. The intermediate sense "state of rest or ease neither pleasant nor painful" (1650s) is now obsolete as well; main modern sense of "laziness, love of ease" (1710) perhaps reflects the notion of avoiding trouble (compare taking pains "working hard, striving (to do)").
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