sluggard
sluggard 英 [ˈslʌgəd] 美 [ˈslʌgərd]
n. 游手好闲的人；懒鬼；偷懒者
名词复数:sluggards
- Do you know anyone lazy or slothful? Then you know a sluggard: an idle or sluggish person.
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- n. 游手好闲的人；懒鬼；偷懒者
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1. Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise!
懒惰人啊，你去察看蚂蚁的动作，就可得智慧！
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2. As a door turns on its hinges, so a sluggard turns on his bed.
门在枢纽转动，懒惰人在床上也是如此。
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3. It is no wonder the Biblical Solomon rebuked the lazy man: "Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise!
难怪圣经中的索罗门职责那些懒汉们说：“到蚂蚁中去，你这个懒鬼；思考它们的方法，做一个智慧的人！”
- sluggard (n.) late 14c., late 13c. as a surname, "habitually lazy person," from Middle English sluggi "sluggish, indolent," probably from a Scandinavian word such as dialectal Norwegian slugga "be sluggish," dialectal Norwegian sluggje "heavy, slow person," dialectal Swedish slogga "to be slow or sluggish." Adjective sluggy is attested in English from early 13c. As an adjective meaning "sluggish, lazy" from 1590s. Related: Sluggardly.
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