indolent
indolent 英 [ˈɪndələnt] 美 [ˈɪndələnt]
adj. 懒惰的；无痛的
- Indolent is an adjective meaning slow or lazy. It can take an indolent teenager hours to get out of bed on a weekend morning. Often it's noon before he finally comes shuffling down to breakfast in his pajamas.
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- adj. 懒惰的；无痛的
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1. The former investment banker has not been indolent: his department has been a factory for acronyms since the crisis began.
这位前投资银行家并非懒惰，自危机开始以来，他的部门已成为加工厂的代称。
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2. To occupy the indolent, column upon column is filled with idle gossip, which can only be procured by intrusion upon the domestic circle.
为了让无所事事者心满意足，报纸一栏又一栏地充斥着只有侵入家庭隐私才能获取的无聊闲话。
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3. In a 1942 presentation at the New York Academy of Medicine, the scientists reported that after lobotomy, patients did sometimes become “indolent” or “outspoken.
在1942年纽约医学专科学院的一个介绍会中，一些科学家提出，额叶切除术后，病人的确有时变得“懒惰”或“直言”。
- indolent (adj.) 1660s, "causing no pain, painless," from French indolent (16c.) or directly from Late Latin indolentem (see indolence). Sense of "living easily, slothful," is 1710, a sense perhaps developed in French. Related: Indolently.
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