sloth 英 [sləʊθ] 　 美 [sloʊθ]

sloth

sloth　 英 [sləʊθ] 美 [sloʊθ]

n. 怠惰，懒惰；[脊椎] 树懒　

名词复数:sloths　

In an unusual display of sloth caution on my part, however, I held back out of prudence.　在一个对我来说非同寻常的对懒惰谨慎的展示，但是，我出于谨慎忍住发表评论的欲望。
You know how there are times when we are really inspired to work, where other times we’ll feel like a total sloth?　你知道当我们真正受启发而工作的时候怎么会有时间，其他我们总会感觉很懒惰的时候在哪里？

  • 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."
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  • n. 怠惰，懒惰；[脊椎] 树懒

  • 1. In an unusual display of sloth caution on my part, however, I held back out of prudence.

    在一个对我来说非同寻常的对懒惰谨慎的展示，但是，我出于谨慎忍住发表评论的欲望。

  • 2. You know how there are times when we are really inspired to work, where other times we’ll feel like a total sloth?

    你知道当我们真正受启发而工作的时候怎么会有时间，其他我们总会感觉很懒惰的时候在哪里？

  • 3. They then found the same virus lurking in the genome of the three-toed sloth.

    然后他们发现同样的病毒也潜伏在三趾树懒基因组里。

  • sloth (n.) late 12c., "indolence, sluggishness," formed from Middle English slou, slowe (see slow (adj.)) + abstract formative -th (2). Replaced Old English slæwð "sloth, indolence." Sense of "slowness, tardiness" is from mid-14c. As one of the deadly sins, it translates Latin accidia.
sloth / sləʊθ ; NAmE sloʊθ / noun 1 [countable ] a S American animal that lives in trees and moves very slowly 树懒（南美洲热带动物，行动缓慢） 2 [uncountable ] ( formal) the bad habit of being lazy and unwilling to work 懒散；怠惰 sloth sloths sloth / sləʊθ ; NAmE sloʊθ /
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